Hugh Beaumont
Eugene Hugh Beaumont (born February 16, 1909 in Eudora , Kansas , † May 14, 1982 in Munich , Germany ) was an American actor and director .
Life
Beaumont first attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga , 1946, he graduated from the University of Southern California the master's degree in theology . As early as 1931, he began his acting career, initially at local theaters and nightclubs . From the beginning of the 1940s, he worked in numerous feature films , but initially only extras and minor supporting roles without naming names in the credits. He had a first career high between 1946 and 1947 when he took over the role of private detective Michael Shayne from Lloyd Nolan and played the leading role in five films in the series. In the 1950s, he was mainly seen in television productions and had guest appearances in the series The Lone Ranger and Lassie, among others . He has also had a few supporting roles in westerns , including Oscar- nominee The World Is His With Tyrone Power and The Clock Is Up With James Stewart .
In 1957 he got the role of the family man Ward Cleaver in the sitcom You should be grown up , which he played in 234 episodes until 1963. In the course of the series he wrote several episode scripts , including for the series finale, and directed 25 episodes. After the series was discontinued, he occasionally appeared as a guest star on television series such as The People of Shiloh Ranch and Mannix . He retired from acting to his farm in Grand Rapids , Minnesota after suffering a stroke in 1972.
Beaumont was married from 1942 to the divorce in 1974 with the actress Kathryn Adams Doty (1920-2016), who ended her own career after the marriage. The marriage had three children. He died of a heart attack in 1982 at the age of 72 while visiting his son who lived in Munich.
Filmography (selection)
- 1940: Jack Pot (short film)
- 1941: Forbidden Passage
- 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
- 1943: Flight for Freedom
- 1943: The Fallen Sparrow
- 1944: The Seventh Cross (The Seventh Cross)
- 1945: Espionage in the Far East (Blood on the Sun)
- 1945: The Hero of Burma (Objective, Burma!)
- 1945: A Gun in His Hand (short film)
- 1946: The Blue Dahlia (The Blue Dahlia)
- 1947: The Perfumed Killer (Railroaded!)
- 1951: His Last Outpost (The Last Outpost)
- 1952: The Black Riders of Dakota (Bugles in the Afternoon)
- 1952: A stranger calls (Phone Call from a Stranger)
- 1953: The Lone Ranger
- 1953: The World Is His (The Mississippi Gambler)
- 1955/1966: Lassie (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1956: In the Claws of the Deep (The Mole People)
- 1957: The clock has run out (Night Passage)
- 1957–1963: One should be an adult ( Leave It to Beaver ; TV series, 234 episodes)
- 1965: FBI chases Phantom (The Human Duplicators)
- 1966–1968: The People of Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian ; TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1968–1970: Mannix (TV series, 3 episodes)
Web links
- Hugh Beaumont in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hugh Beaumont in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Hugh Beaumont in the New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beaumont, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beaumont, Eugene Hugh (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eudora , Kansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1982 |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |