Paul Brinegar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 19, 1917
- Died
- March 27, 1995 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Maverick
Movie · as Stage Driver
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Movie · as Jim 'Dog' Kelly
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
TV · as Francis Kilbride · 1 ep
Life Stinks
Movie · as Old Bellboy
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Movie · as Cookie
They Came from Outer Space
TV · as John Peckham · 1 ep
Annihilator
Movie · as Pops
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Movie · as Pee Wee
The Young Landlords
Movie · as Mr. Darden
Spaceship
Movie · as Clint Eastwood / Dirty Harry
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Movie · as Bodie
Knight Rider
TV · as Chuck · 1 ep
Capitol
TV · 260 eps
Matt Houston
TV · as Lamar Pettybone · 24 eps
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 2 eps
Crisis in Sun Valley
Movie · as Poole
The Golden Dog
Movie · as Jock
CHiPs
TV · as Keith Lawton / Old Surfer · 1 ep
Lucan
TV · 1 ep
Code R
TV · as Alvin Purdy · 2 eps
Grizzly Adams
TV · as Trapper Tom · 1 ep
Barbary Coast
TV · as Jesse · 1 ep
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Glover · 1 ep
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV · as Rafe Morris · 1 ep
Petrocelli
TV · as Patch Dressler · 1 ep
Harry O
TV · as Old Man · 1 ep
High Plains Drifter
Movie · as Lutie Naylor
The Secret Sharer
Movie · as Captain Archbold
Emergency!
TV · as Husband (Tom), Grady, Max · 1 ep
Nichols
TV · as Gaffer · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · as Charlie Tompkins · 1 ep
Charro!
Movie · as Opie Keetch
Medical Center
TV · as Hnchoo · 1 ep
Lancer
TV · as Jelly Hoskins · 51 eps
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · as Charlie Moss · 1 ep
Country Boy
Movie
The Magnificent Stranger
Movie · as Wishbone
Hero
TV · 1 ep
Daniel Boone
TV · as Gurney · 1 ep
Rawhide
TV · as Wishbone · 217 eps
Bonanza
TV · as Lev Buckalew · 1 ep
How to Make a Monster
Movie · as Rivero
Cattle Empire
Movie · as Tom Jefferson Jeffrey
Lawman
TV · as George the Stage Line Clerk · 1 ep
The Texan
TV · as Ludwig · 1 ep
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV · as Van Kimmel · 1 ep
Copper Sky
Movie · as Charlie Martin
The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie · as Okie (uncredited)
The Vampire
Movie · as Willy Warner
Trackdown
TV · as Zack Armstead · 1 ep
Perry Mason
TV · as Jason Rohan, Tom Sackett · 1 ep
Whirlybirds
TV · as Joe Slade · 1 ep
Sugarfoot
TV · as Austin (uncredited) · 1 ep
Ransom!
Movie · as Bank Clerk (uncredited)
World Without End
Movie · as Vida (uncredited)
Fighting Trouble
Movie · as Mailman (uncredited)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV · 1 ep
State Trooper
TV · as Storekeeper · 1 ep
I Died a Thousand Times
Movie · as Bus Driver (uncredited)
Inside Detroit
Movie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Mason, Police Officer, Mr. Stern · 1 ep
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · as Jim Begley, Jim Kelley, Jim Kelley (uncredited), Mayor Jim Kelley · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · as Milkman (uncredited) · 1 ep
Cheyenne
TV · as Slim Mantell · 1 ep
The Silver Chalice
Movie · as Audience Member (uncredited)
Dawn at Socorro
Movie · as Desk Clerk
Four Guns to the Border
Movie
Rails Into Laramie
Movie · as Bandleader (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Movie · as Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Human Desire
Movie · as Brakeman
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Movie · as Angry Accuser in Street (uncredited)
The Whistler
TV · 1 ep
Public Defender
TV · as Bud, Vic Oliver, Keller · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Jock · 1 ep
Lassie
TV · as Ben Adams · 1 ep
Father Knows Best
TV · as Delivery Man (uncredited) · 1 ep
Captain Scarface
Movie · as Clegg
The Man Behind the Badge
TV · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Pete, Ivan Fenwick · 3 eps
We're Not Married!
Movie · as Beauty Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Pat and Mike
Movie · as Caddy (uncredited)
The Captive City
Movie · as Police Sergeant
Cavalcade of America
TV · 1 ep
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Hans, Jamie (uncredited) · 1 ep
Storm Warning
Movie · as Cameraman #1 (uncredited)
Insurance Investigator
Movie · as Mr. Spangler
Journey Into Light
Movie · as Bum
Dragnet
TV · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Brown, Link, Cousin Obie (uncredited), Joe · 1 ep
Racket Squad
TV · 1 ep
Young Man with a Horn
Movie · as Stage Manager (uncredited)
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Movie
Pinky
Movie · as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Take One False Step
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
TV · as Frankie · 1 ep
Larceny
Movie · as Mechanic