Most Recent Role: Chet Elderson on King of the Hill
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Belleville, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 4-2-1908
Birth Name: Christian Rudolph Ebsen Jr.
Date of Death: 7-6-2003
Cause of Death: Torrance California USA (complications from pneumonia)
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Belleville, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 4-2-1908
Birth Name: Christian Rudolph Ebsen Jr.
Date of Death: 7-6-2003
Cause of Death: Torrance California USA (complications from pneumonia)
Most Recent Appearance
A Fire Fighting We Will Go
Tuesday 12 January 1999 on FOX
Hank and his friends become volunteer firefighters. They manage to wreck a fire hydrant, ruin a funeral, and finally burn down the Arlen firehouse. When the Fire Captain comes to ask what happened, the trio turns the story around to match each of their scenarios.
Out of his four sisters: Helga, Norma, Vilma, and Leslie, Ebsen was the middle child.
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Ebsen's height was 6'3½" (1.92m).
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Ebsen owned a 36-acre ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Ebsen was inducted into the DelMolay Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Buddy had to give up the role of the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz due to an allergy to the silver make-up/paint that was used.
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Buddy Ebsen (on having written romance novel "Kelly's Quest at age 93"): There are a lot of mes.
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Buddy Ebsen: You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have, I never will.
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Buddy Ebsen: You take a blank piece of paper and, whatever you're thinking, you write it down. I'm very satisfied if, in my mind, it increased the value of the paper. That's what writing should do. It should increase the value of the paper.
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Other Appearances
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Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones |
Davy Crockett
George 'Georgie' Russel |
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Matt Houston
Roy Houston |
Northwest Passage
Sgt. Hunk Marriner |
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The Beverly Hillbillies
Jed Clampett |
The Twilight Zone
Jimbo Cobb |
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Disneyland
George Russel |
Disneyland
George Russel |
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77 Sunset Strip
Open and Close in One Baxter Kellogg |
Adventures in Paradise
One Way Ticket Ben Curtis |
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Alias Smith and Jones
High Lonesome Country Phil Archer |
Alias Smith and Jones
What's in It for Mia? George Austin |
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Barbara Stanwyck Show
Little Big Mouth Dr. Mark Carroll |
Black Saddle
The Apprentice Gurney Rhodes |
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The classic Walt Disney series featuring the life of Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier , starring Fess Parker ( Daniel Boone ) and Buddy Ebsen ( Beverly Hillbillies , Barnaby Jones ) as... more Matt Houston
Matt Houston, heir to an oil fortune, used his money and free time to persue his passion: detective work. With fancy cars and helicopters at his disposal, and a bevy of bikini-clad beauties often... more Northwest Passage
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The Beverly HillbilliesJed Clampett and kin, a poor Ozark Hillbilly family, were barely surviving until one lucky day. Jed while hunting for food in his swamp missed his target and struck the ground with his shot. Up... more
The Twilight ZoneThe series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But,... more
