Clint Eastwood’s Co-Star and Perry Mason Actor Dies at 94

Hollywood staple James McEachin died at the age of 94 in January, it was reported on Tuesday.

The movie star was already interred at Los Angeles National Cemetery in April, it was added.

James is best known for having worked on four Clint Eastwood films: they are Coogan’s Bluff (1968), Play Misty for Me (1971), Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and Sudden Impact (1983).

The North Carolina native was also on the TV shows All in the Family, Tenafly, Dragnet, It Takes a Thief, Adam-12, The Name of the Game, Mannix, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O and Burr’s Ironside.

On Perry Mason he played Lt Ed Brock opposite Raymond Burr and Hal Holbrook from 1986 until 1995. A

And on Matlock he portrayed another police lieutenant, Frank Daniels, on the first season (1986-1987) opposite Andy Griffith.

Other TV shows he had guest starring roles on were The Rockford Files, Police Story, Emergency!, Columbo, T.J. Hooker, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote and Hill Street Blues. 

McEachin was in the movies Uptight (1968), If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968), True Grit (1969) and Hello, Dolly! (1969).

McEachin also wrote several books, including 1996’s Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South, 1997’s Farewell to the Mockingbirds, 1999’s The Heroin Factor, 2000’s Say Goodnight to the Boys in Blue and 2021’s Swing Low My Sweet Chariot: The Ballad of Jimmy Mack, a memoir.

His wife, Lois, whom he married in 1960, died in July 2017.