Career

Bill Raisch is from North Bergen, New Jersey. A dancer who worked for Ziegfeld Follies in the 1930s, he lost his right arm while serving in World World War World War II He played bit parts in several movies. His most memorable film role was in a famous fight scene with Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave (1962).

He also fought Spencer Tracy in Bad Day At Black Rock.

Raisch"s best remembered role, however, was in the 1963–1967 television series The Fugitive, in which he played "The One-Armed Manitoba" (who frequently went by the alias Fred Johnson) who was the real killer of the wife of Doctor Richard Kimble, played by David Janssen. After The Fugitive ended, Raisch was scarcely seen on television or the media again as he focused on his career as an acting teacher.

He died of lung cancer in 1984 in Santa Monica, California, at age 79.