Don Chastain

Don Chastain was an American actor singer and screenwriter He worked in television in Los Angeles and New York and toured the United States and Canada Chastains Broadway credits include Parade 1998 42nd Street 1980 Its a BirdIts a PlaneIts Superman 1965 and No Strings 1961 On television Chastain appeared as Gerald Wiley in the episode Trial by Rope of the TV series Colt 45 in 1960 The guest cast also included Pamela Duncan as Dora Lacey and Lurene Tuttle as Lottie Strong Other series in which Chastain appeared as a guest star include The Real McCoys Rhoda Maude The Rockford Files All My Children Hawaii FiveO The West Wing Gunsmoke Scrubs and The Big Valley Chastain also played Jim Thompson in the TV comedy The Debbie Reynolds Show 19691970 and Scott Thomas in the TV comedy Hello Larry 19791981 One of Chastains final roles on TV was as a suspect On the television reality competition show Murder in Small Town X in 2001 as character Hayden DeBeck He was featured for 6 episodes before being killed by the shows fictional killer On film he appeared in the role of Lizard in the 1970 film of CC and Company and also penned the screenplay for The Mafu Cage 1978 Chastain also wrote several episodes of As the World Turns between 1992 and 1995