Career
His series acting career began at the age of thirty-one, when he was cast in a supporting role as deputy marshal Heck Martin during the first season (1960-1961) of the National Broadcasting Company western series Outlaws, starring Barton MacLane and Don Collier, and in the second season, Collier and Bruce Yarnell. Gaynor was a native of New York City who sometimes used the stage names Jack Gaynor or Ward Gaynor. In 1960, he appeared as the character Joe Malone in National Broadcasting Company"s Wichita Town with Joel McCrea.
The then appeared in three American Broadcasting Company programs, Bourbon Street Beat as Mike Cherbourg, Colt.45 as Gabe Randall, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Lieutenant Grange.
He appeared in David McLean"s National Broadcasting Company summer western Tate as Tavibo weeks prior to appearing on Outlaws. Thereafter, Gaynor guest starred on Clint Walker"s American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne in the 1961 episode "Incident at Dawson Flats".
Before the wedding takes place, however, McIntyre accidentally kills Selma"s brother, Lafe Dawson (John Cliff). Hampton Fancher appears as the youngest Dawson brother, Jasper.
Cheyenne proceeds to uncover secrets of the dysfuncitonal Dawson family.
Gaynor guest starred on other American Broadcasting Company/World Bank series, including Hawaiian Eye with Robert Conrad, and Surfside 6 with Troy Donahue. He appeared twice as "Ogalla" on Columbia Broadcasting System"s Rawhide with Clint Eastwood. He guest starred in the lead role in the short-lived 1961 Columbia Broadcasting System western Gunslinger in one episode entitled "Johnny Sergeant".
Gaynor also guest starred on such series as Laramie, the National Broadcasting Company western with John Smith and Robert Fuller, and in two episodes each of American Broadcasting Company"s Batman and The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson and Columbia Broadcasting System"s Mission: Impossible.
From 1963-1964, Gaynor appeared as Doctor William Scott in the soap opera The Doctors (1963-1982), the work of Orin Tovrov, who, according to the book Total Television had also created the old serial Ma Perkins. He voiced an alien and guest-starred as a villain in two episodes of "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea".
After appearances on Columbia Broadcasting System"s Mannix with Mike Connors and Cannon with William Conrad, both in 1973, Gaynor rarely acted thereafter. He appeared in the 1974 thriller film The Deathhead Virgin in the role of Larry Alden.
According to the story line, a treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island, only to learn that the ship is influenced by the ghost of an ancient Moro princess.
His last appearance was in the role of Paxton in 1986 on National Broadcasting Company"s Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff. He produced the film The Invitation in 1984 and twenty episodes from 1979-1980 of Gil Gerard"s series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Gaynor died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of sixty-eight.