William Fawcett Got a Huge Career Boost from The Cisco Kid
William “Bill” Fawcett would appear just seven times in The Cisco Kid in the role of the ornery “grampaw.” Yet, it was enough for another studio to take a gamble on his star power and he was offered the lead role in Fury alongside Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond, and Roger Mobley.
Fury was the “story of a horse and a boy that loves him.” It proved to be rather more popular than that description might suggest and in the end, it ran for nearly as long as The Cisco Kid packing in 116 episodes across 5 seasons. It was still regularly shown on TV well into the 1970s.
