Paul Brinegar
| Paul Brinegar | |
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Brinegar (1968)
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| Born |
December 19, 1917 Tucumcari, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Died | March 27, 1995 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Los Angeles National Cemetery |
| Years active | 1946–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Shirley Talbott (1962-1995) (his death) (2 children) |
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.
Born and reared in Tucumcari in eastern New Mexico, Brinegar attended Pasadena City College.
Brinegar headed to California as a young man and made his feature film debut in Larceny (1948). From there, he launched a steady film career that slowed down 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 one hundred times between 1946 and 1994 in western films. He is remembered as the barman in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter in 1973. He was cast as the cook, George Washington Wishbone, on the CBS series Rawhide from 1959 to 1966. He had even played Tom Jefferson Jeffrey in the 1958 movie Cattle Empire upon which Rawhide was based.
From 1956 to 1958, he played James H. "Dog" Kelley, the mayor of Dodge City, Kansas, who held that office from 1877 to 1881, in the ABC/Desilu western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role of Wyatt Earp. Brinegar appeared thirty-three times as Kelley and once in a previous episode in another role. In 1959, he played Ludwig, the bartender, in the episode "The Ringer" of the western series The Texan with Rory Calhoun. In 1969, he appeared in the western film Charro! starring Elvis Presley.
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