Mannix

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

I was watching "The Ten Commandments" (1956) on ABC last week and while deep diving in the credits noted they listed Clint "Cheyenne" Walker and one Touch Connors.
Touch of course being Mike Connors, playing an Amalekite herder, Walker the Sardinian captain of the guard.

I just reread this entire Mannix thread, and was pleasantly surprised to find it's one of the best in Magnum Mania
Connors would have been 100 this August 25th.
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Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
― Tennessee Williams

Yep I even recall the scene where Mike "Touch" Connors appears in as the Amalekite sheep herder. I've seen THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (what a great film!) so many times over the years that I made sure to spot the scene that shows Joe Mannix. I believe I recall spotting Clint Walker too. Interesting thing is that Connors at this point was a relative unknown (although I guess he had some kind of a football career - hence the nickname "Touch") but Walker was already a star on CHEYENNE! Yet he basically has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo. I guess this film was a free-for-all -- everybody in Hollywood wanted a piece of this DeMille spectacle, no matter how small the part.

Ivan,
You are right about everyone wanting to be in it, it was recognized even then this was likely DeMille's last hurrah and the studio was going all out, a statement about old school movie making
and a "match this" to the emerging medium of television that was changing everything, especially where the viewers money and attention was now going. All knew the Hollywood model was
never again going to be the same.
At least that's what the movie mavens I have read said was the case. I do know most all involved were paid relatively little, even Edward G. Robinson(making a comeback), as as you noted
everyone - like in the later It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - in Hollywood wanted to be in it. Star Heston's newborn son played the baby Moses.