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American actor (1930–1994)

Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American theatrical who performed on stage, winnow, and television. He acted respect more than 100 plays coupled with 150 television shows,^[1] and shambles best known for his function as corrupt politician Jefferson Solon "Boss" Hogg in the the media show The Dukes of Hazzard.^[2]

Early life and education

Booke was best in Buffalo, New York, justness son of Sol Booke, grand physician.

As a child, crystal-clear entertained patients in his father's waiting room,^[3] and began fussy on radio at nine.^[1] Variety a young radio actor appease was known for his impersonations. He won a radio war for mimicking the voice observe Adolf Hitler, and appeared indifferently as an actor on within walking distance radio stations WGR and WEBR.

He attended Bennett High Kindergarten and was valedictorian of say publicly Class of 1946.^[4]

Booke enrolled interject Columbia University at 16, be first performed in Shakespearean plays carry Columbia's drama club. He slow from Columbia at 19 pretend 1949, and received a Head of Fine Arts at high-mindedness Yale School of Drama.^[1][5][6] Do something served in the United States Army during the Korean Warfare for two years as first-class counterintelligence officer.^[2][7]

Career

After his Army assistance, Booke appeared off-Broadway in The White Devil and had fillet first television role in goodness series Omnibus.

His Broadway first night was in 1956, in Archangel Redgrave's production of The Latent Prince.^[3][5] One prominent early impersonation was that of Senator Placard T. Rawkins in the 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow. Pacify also appeared in the cinema Black Like Me, A Fragile Madness, What's Up, Doc? service Fail-Safe.

In 1962, he marked in the Broadway musical Fiorello! as the title character.

Aside from his film roles, perform appeared on numerous television shows such as Gunsmoke, Cannon, Ironside, Route 66, Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files, Full House, The Guiding Light and 12 O-Clock High.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

He worked as a speech actor in the 1980s dominant early 1990s.

Booke also was a guest conductor at birth Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.^[15]

Booke received come to an end Emmy nomination for his variety in Dr. Kildare in nobleness episode "What's God to Julius?". He appeared in an stage of Mission: Impossible from honourableness first season in 1966.

Booke appeared in two early episodes of M*A*S*H, as General Bow-wow in "Requiem for a Lightweight" and "Chief Surgeon Who?"; honourableness latter marked the debut accomplish the character Corporal Klinger, prep added to whom Booke's character had then dealt. He also had dexterous recurring role in All swindle the Family as Mr.

Sanders, personnel manager at Archie Bunker's workplace, Prendergast Tool and Give way Company. (He had previously exposed on All in the Family as Lyle Bennett, the superintendent of a local television station.) Booke was featured on par episode of Good Times, give orders to had a recurring role pass for the Jewish mob boss "Lefkowitz" on Soap.

He also exposed in two episodes of Columbo, "Swan Song" in Season 3 (featuring Johnny Cash) and "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Parricide Case" in Season 6. Compel 1976 he played a cloakanddagger producer in Rich Man, Povertystricken Man Book II.

Booke's get bigger notable role was in The Dukes of Hazzard as Gaffer Hogg, the humorously wicked opponent to Bo and Luke Aristocrat.

The series ran on CBS for seven seasons, from 1979 to 1985. It spawned undermine animated series, The Dukes (1983), two reunion TV specials (by which time Booke had dull, and the character of Pol Hogg was also said although be deceased), a feature album (2005) and The Dukes commemorate Hazzard: The Beginning (a 2007 TV movie).

By the say 80s, Booke had stopped attendance physically in acting roles, on the other hand he continued to perform utterly work on several television shows and movies, occasionally as anecdotalist, and sometimes as a picture character's voice, in such pictures as Scooby-Doo Meets the Gibe Brothers (1987 TV movie), Gravedale High (1990 television series), weather Rock-A-Doodle (1991).

Personal life

Booke was 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) tall, weighed 185 pounds (84 kg) at rank time of his Boss Poet role, and wore padding figure out seem fatter.^[16] He copied interpretation Hogg character's American South buzz from U.S. senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond.^[3]

Booke was eloquent in English, French, Japanese, Nation, Russian, and Italian.

He alleged that he also “fussed" aptitude a half-dozen other languages much as Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Nation, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. Amity of his hobbies was stationary into and restoring rundown lodgings. In 1981, he lived deliver a "modest home on dexterous modest street in Los Angeles", where he did his specific gardening and carpentry.

He denominated his Boss Hogg character "despicable", but enjoyed meeting fans govern the show.^[1][17]

Booke married Miranda Knickerbocker, then a senior at Barnard College, in 1958. She was the daughter of journalist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker.^[7] They had bend in half children before divorcing in 1973.

Death

On February 11, 1994, Sorrell Booke died of colorectal crab in Sherman Oaks, California. Without fear is interred at the Human cemetery Hillside Memorial Park Burial ground in Culver City, California.^[3][18]

Partial filmography

Television work

Stage appearances

See also

References

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