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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1917-12-19
- event Death Date 1995-03-27
- school Known for: Acting
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- info Birth Place Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Paul Brinegar
7.3
High Plains Drifter
1973-04-19
5.7
Larceny
1948-09-03
6.9
Maverick
1994-05-20
6.6
Storm Warning
1951-02-10
7.2
Ransom!
1956-01-24
6.1
I Died a Thousand Times
1955-11-09
4.4
The Silver Chalice
1954-12-20
6.3
Young Man with a Horn
1950-03-01
5.6
How to Make a Monster
1958-07-01
0
The Young Landlords
1983-01-05
7.2
Dawn at Socorro
1954-09-01
4.6
Four Guns to the Border
1954-11-05
6
Copper Sky
1957-09-01
6.3
Rails Into Laramie
1954-04-14
5.9
We're Not Married!
1952-07-11
0
Crisis in Sun Valley
1978-03-29
6
Inside Detroit
1956-01-01
7.2
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
0
Country Boy
1966-01-01
6.8
Human Desire
1954-08-05
7.1
Pinky
1949-09-28
5.4
Charro!
1969-03-13
5
Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984-05-18
6.3
Pat and Mike
1952-06-13
6.2
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994-07-01
6.7
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
0
The Golden Dog
1977-01-02
4.3
Captain Scarface
1953-10-15
6.2
The Vampire
1957-06-14
6
Cattle Empire
1958-04-01
5.8
World Without End
1956-03-25
5
Annihilator
1986-04-07
3.7
Spaceship
1983-07-01
5
Insurance Investigator
1951-03-23
6
Fighting Trouble
1956-09-16
5.5
Take One False Step
1949-08-14
1
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982-10-31
6.7
The Magnificent Stranger
1966-08-26
6.1
The Captive City
1952-03-26
6
Journey Into Light
1951-09-28
5.6
Life Stinks
1991-06-05
0
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993-08-27
5
The Gambler: The Luck Of The Draw
1991-11-03
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
6.4
Trackdown
1957-10-04
6.5
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-09-23
7.9
Little House on the Prairie
1974-09-11
7.5
Knight Rider
1982-09-26
6.1
Medical Center
1969-09-24
7.8
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
6.4
Dragnet
1951-12-16
6.5
Cannon
1971-09-14
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
6.9
Daniel Boone
1964-09-24
5.7
Capitol
1982-03-26
4.7
Lancer
1968-09-24
6
Lucan
1977-09-12
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
6.2
Matt Houston
1982-09-26
3.7
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956-09-07
5.5
Whirlybirds
1957-01-03
6
Racket Squad
1951-06-07
0
The Whistler
1954-07-13
0
Code R
1977-01-21
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
7
Grizzly Adams
1977-02-09
5.5
The Man Behind the Badge
1953-10-11
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06
5
Hero
1966-09-08
6.5
Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20
6
Public Defender
1954-03-11
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06
5.6
Lawman
1958-10-05
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
5
Nichols
1971-09-16
5
State Trooper
1956-09-25
6.5
Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20
0
They Came from Outer Space
1990-10-01
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974-01-18
4.8
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
7.8
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
6.7
The Lone Ranger
1949-09-15
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06
6.2
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967-09-08
7.1
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993-08-27
5.5
The Texan
1958-09-29
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27
6
Public Defender
1954-03-11
5
Barbary Coast
1975-09-08
7
Petrocelli
1974-09-11
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
5.5
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955-10-05
5.8
Cheyenne
1955-09-20
6.1
Lassie
1954-09-12
6
Public Defender
1954-03-11
7.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02
7.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02
7.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
6.5
Father Knows Best
1954-10-03
6.2
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958-01-12
4.6
Harry O
1974-09-12
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06