Boyd Magers of "Western Clippings" reports that Robert Horton, who starred as frontier scout Flint McCullough on the television western series "Wagon Train" and was star of the cult science fiction film "The Green Slime", died in a Los Angeles rehabilitation center on March 9, 2016, at age 91. I will post an obituary if and when is forthcoming.
HORTON, Robert (Meade Howard Horton Jr.)
Born: 7/29/1924, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Died: 3/9/2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Robert Horton’s westerns – actor:
Apache War Smoke – 1952 (Tom Herrera)
Pony Shoulder – 1952 (Jess Calhoun)
Return of the Texan – 1952 (Jim Harris)
Arena – 1953 (Jackie Roach)
The Lone Ranger (TV) – 1954 (Charels DeWitt)
The Sheriff of Cochise (TV) – 1956 (Morrell)
Wagon Train (TV) – 1957-1962 (Flint McCullough)
A Man Called Shenandoah (TV) – 1965-1966 (Shenandoah)
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (TV) – 1966 (Kiowa Jones)
Red River (TV) – 1988 (Mr. Melville)