Editing Stafford Repp (section)

== Acting career ==
Repp acted in stage productions on the West Coast before World War II.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Air Corps Play to Be Staged |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21889003/stafford_repp/ |work=The Montana Standard |date=March 18, 1943 |location=Montana, Butte |page=5|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 15, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>

At the beginning of his film career, Repp appeared in numerous film and TV productions including the films ''[[I Want to Live!]]'' (1958) with [[Susan Hayward]], and ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]],'' both made in 1958. Also at this same time he began to appear in a string of early television programs from the middle 1950s to the early 1960s, including [[NBC]]'s [[Western (genre)|western]] [[anthology series]] ''Frontier'' and the [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]]/[[Clu Gulager]] western, ''[[The Tall Man (TV series)|The Tall Man]]''.

Repp appeared on [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]]'s ''[[State Trooper (TV series)|State Trooper]]'', [[Barbara Eden]]'s ''[[How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series)|How to Marry a Millionaire]]'', [[Peter Lawford]]'s ''[[The Thin Man]]'' (1957), [[Tom Tryon]]'s ''[[Texas John Slaughter (TV series)|Texas John Slaughter]]'' (1958), [[Rex Allen]]'s ''[[Frontier Doctor]]'' (1959), ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'' (1959), [[Howard Duff]]'s ''[[Dante (TV series)|Dante]]'' (1961), [[Walter Brennan]]'s ''[[The Real McCoys]]'' (1957 and 1959), ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1957, 1960 & 1965), ''[[The Donna Reed Show]]'' (1960), ''[[Guestward, Ho!]]'' (1960), ''[[Angel (1960 TV series)|Angel]]'' (1961), and ''[[Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series)|Dennis the Menace]]'' (1962 and 1963). He appeared as Joe Melvin, a plumber, in a 1963 episode of ''[[The Lucy Show]]'', "Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower".

Repp made four appearances on ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' between 1959 and 1962 in minor roles, including Private Investigator Phillip Morgan in "The Case of the Petulant Partner."

From 1963 to 1964, he portrayed Brink, the factory supervisor on [[Phil Silvers]]' ''[[The New Phil Silvers Show]]''. His series co-stars were [[Buddy Lester]], [[Herbie Faye]], [[Elena Verdugo]], [[Ronnie Dapo]], and [[Sandy Descher]].

Repp made appearances in ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' episodes "[[Nick of Time (The Twilight Zone)|Nick of Time]]" which starred [[William Shatner]]; a supporting role in "[[The Grave (The Twilight Zone)|The Grave]]" with a cast which consisted of [[Lee Marvin]], [[Lee Van Cleef]], [[Strother Martin]], [[James Best]], and [[Elen Willard]]; then finally in "[[Caesar and Me (The Twilight Zone)|Caesar and Me]]."

In early 1966, he appeared as a railroad detective in an episode in the last season of ''[[My Favorite Martian]]''.

In 1966, he started his stint as Chief O'Hara on ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''. While on ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'', he appeared as a guest in numerous other television programs, including ''[[Love, American Style|Love American Style]]'', ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' and ''[[The Mothers-in-Law]]'', in the latter once again playing a policeman.

His last released film was ''[[Linda Lovelace for President]]'' in [[1975 in film|1975]]. He had a posthumous appearance in ''[[Mannix]]'' that was first broadcast two months after his death. His last television appearance was on the TV show ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'' (as a Military Police Officer) that was first broadcast four months after his death. Shortly before his death in 1974, he filmed several scenes for [[Orson Welles]]' unfinished film ''[[The Other Side of the Wind]]'', which was not completed and released until 2018.