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Paul Brinegar

Born: 1917-12-19

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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High Plains Drifter

as Lutie Naylor

Released: 1973-04-19

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen...

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Maverick

as Stage Driver

Released: 1994-05-20

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional...

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A Star Is Born

as Man at Funeral (uncredited)

Released: 1954-10-01

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own...

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Charro!

as Opie Keetch

Released: 1969-03-13

Jess Wade is innocently accused of having stolen a cannon from the Mexican revolutionary forces....

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Pat and Mike

as Caddy (uncredited)

Released: 1952-06-13

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies...

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The Vampire

as Willy Warner

Released: 1957-06-14

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats...

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Human Desire

as Brakeman

Released: 1954-08-05

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid...

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How to Make a Monster

as Rivero

Released: 1958-07-01

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International...

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Rails Into Laramie

as Bandleader (uncredited)

Released: 1954-04-14

A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the...

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Dawn at Socorro

as Desk Clerk

Released: 1954-09-01

Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris...

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Storm Warning

as Cameraman #1 (uncredited)

Released: 1951-02-10

A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by...

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World Without End

as Vida (uncredited)

Released: 1956-03-25

Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th...

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Pinky

as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

Released: 1949-09-28

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after...

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Larceny

as Mechanic

Released: 1948-09-03

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief....

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We're Not Married!

as Beauty Contest Spectator (uncredited)

Released: 1952-07-11

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years...

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Annihilator

as Pops

Released: 1986-04-07

Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the...

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The Captive City

as Police Sergeant

Released: 1952-03-26

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

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The Silver Chalice

as Audience Member (uncredited)

Released: 1954-12-20

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim...

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Ransom!

as Bank Clerk (uncredited)

Released: 1956-01-24

A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.

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Young Man with a Horn

as Stage Manager (uncredited)

Released: 1950-03-01

Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so...

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I Died a Thousand Times

as Bus Driver (uncredited)

Released: 1955-11-09

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before...

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Insurance Investigator

as Mr. Spangler

Released: 1951-03-23

When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his...

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Captain Scarface

as Clegg

Released: 1953-10-15

A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To...

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Spaceship

as Clint Eastwood / Dirty Harry

Released: 1983-07-01

A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. Alternate titles include "The...

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Crisis in Sun Valley

as Poole

Released: 1978-03-29

Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski...

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Take One False Step

as Reporter (uncredited)

Released: 1949-08-14

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's...

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The Magnificent Stranger

as Wishbone

Released: 1966-08-26

Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.

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Four Guns to the Border

as uncredited

Released: 1954-11-05

A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the...

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Fighting Trouble

as Mailman (uncredited)

Released: 1956-09-16

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a...

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Inside Detroit

as uncredited

Released: 1956-01-01

Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of...

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Cattle Empire

as Tom Jefferson Jeffrey

Released: 1958-04-01

After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken...

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The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

as Bodie

Released: 1982-10-31

It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in...

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Journey Into Light

as Bum

Released: 1951-09-28

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a...

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Copper Sky

as Charlie Martin

Released: 1957-09-01

Alcoholic former cavalryman Hack Williams is arrested for killing an Indian, something he did...

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The Young Landlords

as Mr. Darden

Released: 1983-01-05

Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they...

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Chattanooga Choo Choo

as Pee Wee

Released: 1984-05-18

The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from...

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Little House on the Prairie

as uncredited

First aired: 1974-09-11

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...

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The Six Million Dollar Man

as Rafe Morris

First aired: 1974-01-18

Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...

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Perry Mason

as Jason Rohan

First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Tom Sackett

First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Bonanza

as Lev Buckalew

First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Trapper John, M.D.

as uncredited

First aired: 1979-09-23

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH,...

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