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person_profile-Paul Brinegar

Paul Brinegar Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Paul Brinegar

Date of Birth:

Dec 19, 1917

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Mar 27, 1995

Biography of

Paul Brinegar

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Paul Brinegar (December 19, 1917 – March 27, 1995) was an American character actor best known for his roles in three western series: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, and Lancer.

    Brinegar's first credited appearance in a feature film was in Larceny (1948). From there, he launched a steady film career that slowed considerably in the late 1950s, after he began appearing on television but did not end until 1994, when Brinegar made his final screen appearance, as a stagecoach driver, in the 1994 film version of Maverick.

    Brinegar appeared more than 100 times between 1946 and 1994 in western films, often specializing in playing "feisty, grizzled cowboy sidekicks". On television, from 1956 to 1958, he played James H. "Dog" Kelley, the mayor of Dodge City, Kansas, in the ABC/Desilu western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp starring Hugh O'Brian. Brinegar appeared in that series 33 times as Kelley and in one other episode in another role. In 1959 he played Ludwig, a bartender, in the episode "The Ringer" of the western series The Texan with Rory Calhoun. Brinegar, however, is best remembered as the cattle-drive cook George Washington Wishbone on the CBS series Rawhide from 1959 to 1966. Earlier he had played a similar role, one as the character Tom Jefferson Jeffrey, in the 1958 movie Cattle Empire upon which Rawhide was based.

    Brinegar also made two guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason. His first appearance on that series, prior to Rawhide, was in 1958. He performed as Tom Sackett in the first-season episode titled "The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary". His second appearance on Perry Mason was during the series' ninth and final season. He played Jason Rohan in the 1966 episode "The Case of the Unwelcome Well".

    In the 1968-1970 CBS western series Lancer, Brinegar had the role of Jelly Hoskins; and in 1969 he appeared in the western film Charro! starring Elvis Presley. Then, in 1973, he played the barman in Clint Eastwood's film High Plains Drifter. From 1982 to 1983, returning to television, Brinegar portrayed a humorous cowboy-like character, Lamar Pettybone, during the first season of the ABC series Matt Houston. Later he reprised a revised version of his Rawhide Wishbone character for the 1991 TV movie The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, in which he delivers a brief monologue that includes about a dozen references to old television western series.

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Filmography of

Paul Brinegar

Found 40 Movies in total

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Jim 'Dog' Kelly ( Actor )

... 1994

Maverick

Stage Driver ( Actor )

... 1994

Life Stinks

Old Bellboy ( Actor )

... 1991

Annihilator

Pops ( Actor )

... 1986

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Pee Wee ( Actor )

... 1984

Spaceship

Clint Eastwood / Dirty Harry ( Actor )

... 1983

The Young Landlords

Mr. Darden ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1982

Crisis in Sun Valley

Poole ( Actor )

... 1978

The Golden Dog

Jock ( Actor )

... 1977

High Plains Drifter

Lutie Naylor ( Actor )

... 1973

Charro!

Opie Keetch ( Actor )

... 1969

The Magnificent Stranger

Wishbone ( Actor )

... 1966

How to Make a Monster

Rivero ( Actor )

... 1958

Cattle Empire

Tom Jefferson Jeffrey ( Actor )

... 1958

Copper Sky

Charlie Martin ( Actor )

... 1957

The Vampire

Willy Warner ( Actor )

... 1957

The Spirit of St. Louis

Okie (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1957

Fighting Trouble

Mailman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

World Without End

Vida (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

Ransom!

Bank Clerk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

... 1956

I Died a Thousand Times

Bus Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

The Silver Chalice

Audience Member (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1954

A Star Is Born

Man at Funeral (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

Dawn at Socorro

Desk Clerk ( Actor )

... 1954

Human Desire

Brakeman ( Actor )

... 1954

Rails Into Laramie

Bandleader (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

Captain Scarface

Clegg ( Actor )

... 1953

We're Not Married!

Beauty Contest Spectator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

Pat and Mike

Caddy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

The Captive City

Police Sergeant ( Actor )

... 1952

Journey Into Light

Bum ( Actor )

... 1951

Insurance Investigator

Mr. Spangler ( Actor )

... 1951

Storm Warning

Cameraman #1 (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1951

Young Man with a Horn

Stage Manager (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

Pinky

Western Union Clerk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

Take One False Step

Reporter (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

Larceny

Mechanic ( Actor )

... 1948