Pat Buttram

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Pat Buttram (actually Maxwell Emmett Buttram ; born June 19, 1915 in Addison , Alabama , † January 8, 1994 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor and speaker.

Life

Buttram was one of seven children of a traveling Methodist minister and lived in Nauvoo, Alabama, from the age of two. He graduated from Mortimer Jordan High School and then attended Birmingham-Southern College to follow in his father's footsteps professionally. He gained his first stage experience in college and also made radio appearances on the local broadcaster, which led to a commitment as a regular member of the WLS National Barn Dance radio show in Chicago. In the 1940s, after moving to Hollywood, he became one of the sidekicks of Roy Rogers in his western films, but could not prevail against his two colleagues who played similar roles. Gene Autry brought him to his successor to Smiley Burnette on his series of western films; Buttram stayed with the singing star, the “Melody Ranch”, by his side even after 17 films in more than a hundred television episodes of the “Gene Autry Show” and in radio broadcasts.

Buttram later became a busy voice actor, so in several Disney cartoon feature films and in the television series Garfield and his friends , which was broadcast on Saturday mornings from September 1988 to December 1994. In addition, he was often booked as a spokesman for parties and galas, where he countered his emphatic rural origins with subtle wit. His most famous television role was that of "Mr. Haney ”in the Green Acres series .

In 1982 Buttram founded the Golden Boot Awards , which annually recognize people from a wide variety of activities that have been performed for the Western. He himself received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television performance.

He was married to Dorothy MacFadden from 1936 to 1946 and to Sheila Ryan from 1952 until her death in 1975 .

Filmography (selection)

actor
  • 1944: National Barn Dance
  • 1948: The Strawberry Roan
  • 1949: Riders in the Sky
  • 1963: character assassination (Twilight of Honor)
  • 1964: King of hot rhythms (Roustabout)
  • 1972: The Gatling Gun - Das Maschinengewehr (The Gatling Gun)
  • 1990: Who's the boss here? (Who's the Boss?) (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1990: Zoff in Hooterville (Return to Green Acres) (TV movie)
  • 1990: Back to the Future Part III
speaker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pat Buttram at B-Westerns.com
personal data
SURNAME Buttram, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buttram, Maxwell Emmett (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Addison , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1994
Place of death Los Angeles , California