Research Guru / Moderator
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Jul 7, 2003, 3:17 PM
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Dancer-actor Buddy Ebsen dies at 95
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Dancer-actor Buddy Ebsen, who died Sunday morning at 95, was well-known for his roles on the big and little screen...as Paul Roberts (Shirley Temple's dance partner) in Captain January, as Jed in The Beverly Hillbillies, as the star of Barnaby Jones.
But he also had voice roles in a couple of cartoons.
Buddy was Squire Badger (the narrator) in the NBC Christmas special The Tiny Tree (DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, 1975).
Much more recently, he had a guest shot (as "Chet Elderson") in the King of the Hill episode A Fire Fighting We Will Go (Film Roman Productions, 1999).
Ebsen also did some live work for Disney in the 1950s (as Davy Crockett's friend George Russell).
Buddy very nearly played Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but he had a bad reaction to the aluminum paint during filming and had to be replaced by Jack Haley. I heard it was very lucky that he didn't die back then of aluminum poisoning.
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Jul 7, 2003, 7:09 PM)
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Inbetweener
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Jul 7, 2003, 7:03 PM
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Buddy Ebsen
1908-2003
May he rest in peace.
(This post was edited by flim148 on Jul 7, 2003, 7:08 PM)
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Intern
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Feb 7, 2007, 5:21 AM
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Dear Eminovitz,
Mr.Ebsen did work
with Ms.Judt Garland in one
MGM Movie musical.
They both performed
in "The Broadway Melody Of 1938".
She was beautifully dressed
in a little white gown and white tap
shoes..she sported a black tux and
top hat.
I'm just sorry that these
two talented people never got another
chance to work again on screen.
4CK.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Feb 20, 2007, 10:32 AM
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Author Ric Meyers wrote a funny and respectful comparison of Ebsen's "Barnaby Jones" detective series to the "Droopy Dog" cartoons. Meyers wrote books on tv detective programs ("TV Detectives" and "Murder On the Air") and wrote about the long-running "Barnaby" series (Ebsen as an elderly private detective coming out of retirement to investigate and solve his son's murder and then resuming his investigative career) and compared the entertainment value of the series as similar to the joys of watching the "Droopy" cartoons.
The bad guys (or the evil wolves) would commit the crimes (usually murder) in every "Barnaby" story and then frantically do anything and everything to cover their tracks and get away...and almost everywhere they go, they would turn around and see droopy old Barnaby standing behind them and constantly asking them questions in a soft voice until the milk-drinking silver-haired private eye gets the evidence to solve the cases. The bad guys in their frantic rush to escape would usually trip themselves up by leaving evidence behind, killing their co-horts in the crimes, and making mistakes under pressure and then calm cool Barnaby would show up at the right time at the end to turn them over to the cops.
The bad guys did all the sweating, running, and yelling while slow-moving soft-spoken Barnaby casually investigated the cases, discussing theories with his daughter-in-law/secretary Betty (Lee Meriwether), his assistant/cousin J.R. (Mark Shera), and his police contact Lt. Biddle (John Carter), and following and eventually confronting the bad guys with the evidence..
"Barnaby Jones" ran on CBS from 1973 (two years after Ebsen's "Beverly Hillbillies" ended its run) to 1980. Fun to watch.
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"The Stones...I love The Stones...I can't believe they're still doing it all these years...I watch them whenever I can...Fred and Barney."- Steven Wright
(This post was edited by artytoons on May 9, 2007, 3:47 PM)
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Directing Animator
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Feb 20, 2007, 5:29 PM
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Barnaby/Droopy: "Now, you stay here while I go call the cops..." 
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"Sit, Ubu, sit... good dog!" ("Arf"!)
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