Who did the actor who played J.D. Salinger in Coming Through the Rye play in Lonesome Dove?
Chris Cooper Christopher Walton "Chris" Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama "American Beauty" (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled "October Sky" (1999), the action spy film "The Bourne Identity" (2002), the biographical sports psychological drama thriller film "Seabiscuit" (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote", Capote" (2005), the geopolitical thriller "Syriana" (2005), the action-thriller "The Kingdom" (2007), the crime drama "The Town" (2010), and the musical comedy film "The Muppets" (2011). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries "Lonesome Dove", which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.
Tommy Rettig Thomas Noel Rettig, known as Tommy Rettig (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996), was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. Rettig is remembered for portraying the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's "Lassie" television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs as "Jeff's Collie". He also co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera "Never Too Young" and recorded the song by that title with the group The TR-4.