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Paul Brinegar‌

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Paul Brinegar

Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA

Paul Brinegar

Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1917-12-19

Popularity

star5.9

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.

Movie Credits

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter‌
star7.3
calendar 1973

Larceny

Larceny‌
star5.6
calendar 1948

Maverick

Maverick‌
star6.9
calendar 1994

Storm Warning

Storm Warning‌
star6.6
calendar 1951

Ransom!

Ransom!‌
star7.2
calendar 1956

I Died a Thousand Times

I Died a Thousand Times‌
star6.1
calendar 1955

The Silver Chalice

The Silver Chalice‌
star4.5
calendar 1954

Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn‌
star6.2
calendar 1950

How to Make a Monster

How to Make a Monster‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

The Young Landlords

The Young Landlords‌
star0.0
calendar 1983

Dawn at Socorro

Dawn at Socorro‌
star7.2
calendar 1954

Four Guns to the Border

Four Guns to the Border‌
star4.5
calendar 1954

Copper Sky

Copper Sky‌
star6.0
calendar 1957

Rails Into Laramie

Rails Into Laramie‌
star6.3
calendar 1954

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!‌
star5.9
calendar 1952

Crisis in Sun Valley

Crisis in Sun Valley‌
star0.0
calendar 1978

Inside Detroit

Inside Detroit‌
star6.0
calendar 1956

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born‌
star7.1
calendar 1954

Country Boy

Country Boy‌
star0.0
calendar 1966

Human Desire

Human Desire‌
star6.7
calendar 1954

Pinky

Pinky‌
star7.1
calendar 1949

Charro!

Charro!‌
star5.5
calendar 1969

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Chattanooga Choo Choo‌
star5.0
calendar 1984

Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike‌
star6.3
calendar 1952

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone‌
star6.2
calendar 1994

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis‌
star6.6
calendar 1957

The Golden Dog

The Golden Dog‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

Captain Scarface

Captain Scarface‌
star4.7
calendar 1953

The Vampire

The Vampire‌
star6.2
calendar 1957

Cattle Empire

Cattle Empire‌
star6.0
calendar 1958

World Without End

World Without End‌
star5.7
calendar 1956

Annihilator

Annihilator‌
star4.9
calendar 1986

Spaceship

Spaceship‌
star3.7
calendar 1983

Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator‌
star5.0
calendar 1951

Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble‌
star6.0
calendar 1956

Take One False Step

Take One False Step‌
star5.4
calendar 1949

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch‌
star1.0
calendar 1982

The Magnificent Stranger

The Magnificent Stranger‌
star6.7
calendar 1966

The Captive City

The Captive City‌
star6.1
calendar 1952

Journey Into Light

Journey Into Light‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Tv Credits

CHiPs

CHiPs‌
star6.8
calendar 1977

Trackdown

Trackdown‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D.‌
star6.3
calendar 1979

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie‌
star8.0
calendar 1974

Knight Rider

Knight Rider‌
star7.5
calendar 1982

Medical Center

Medical Center‌
star6.1
calendar 1969

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Dragnet

Dragnet‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Cannon

Cannon‌
star6.5
calendar 1971

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

Harry O

Harry O‌
star4.6
calendar 1974

Rawhide

Rawhide‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Capitol

Capitol‌
star6.6
calendar 1982

Lancer

Lancer‌
star4.7
calendar 1968

Lucan

Lucan‌
star6.0
calendar 1977

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Matt Houston

Matt Houston‌
star6.2
calendar 1982

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Adventures of Jim Bowie‌
star3.7
calendar 1956

Whirlybirds

Whirlybirds‌
star5.5
calendar 1957

Racket Squad

Racket Squad‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

The Whistler

The Whistler‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

Code R

Code R‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

Cavalcade of America

Cavalcade of America‌
star3.5
calendar 1952

Grizzly Adams

Grizzly Adams‌
star7.0
calendar 1977

The Man Behind the Badge

The Man Behind the Badge‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp‌
star6.7
calendar 1955

Hero

Hero‌
star5.0
calendar 1966

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Public Defender

Public Defender‌
star5.0
calendar 1954

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp‌
star6.7
calendar 1955

Lawman

Lawman‌
star5.4
calendar 1958

CHiPs

CHiPs‌
star6.8
calendar 1977

Bonanza

Bonanza‌
star7.5
calendar 1959

Nichols

Nichols‌
star5.0
calendar 1971

State Trooper

State Trooper‌
star5.0
calendar 1956

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

They Came from Outer Space

They Came from Outer Space‌
star0.0
calendar 1990

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man‌
star7.2
calendar 1974

Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot‌
star4.2
calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp‌
star6.7
calendar 1955

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Guns of Will Sonnett‌
star5.7
calendar 1967

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.‌
star7.0
calendar 1993

The Texan

The Texan‌
star5.5
calendar 1958

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Wonderful World of Disney‌
star7.6
calendar 1954

Public Defender

Public Defender‌
star5.0
calendar 1954

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast‌
star5.0
calendar 1975

Petrocelli

Petrocelli‌
star6.9
calendar 1974

Emergency!

Emergency!‌
star7.8
calendar 1972

Emergency!

Emergency!‌
star7.8
calendar 1972

Emergency!

Emergency!‌
star7.8
calendar 1972

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour‌
star4.2
calendar 1955

Cheyenne

Cheyenne‌
star5.8
calendar 1955

Lassie

Lassie‌
star6.1
calendar 1954

Public Defender

Public Defender‌
star5.0
calendar 1954

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best‌
star6.6
calendar 1954