Buddy Ebsen (born April 2, 1908; died July 7, 2003) was an American actor, who is right-remembered for his role when Jed Clampett in the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Born Christian Rudolph Ebsen within Belleville, Illinois, he began his career as a dancer, making his film debut in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 and appearing in various screen musical comedy including Born to Dance, Captain January (both 1936) and The Girl of the Golden West (1938).

Ebsen wwhen originally cast as a "Tin Man" in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. He recorded wholly his songs, went across all a rehearsals, & began cinematography using the rest of the cast. He was rushed to the hospital nine years whilst cinematography began, when his lungs seized fallowing the week of inhaling aluminum dust from a hazardously experimental "tin" makeup.

When Ebsen was in the hospital for fortnight, recovering from either the touching-calamitous allergy to the dust, he was replaced by Jack Haley. Haley didn't process the equivalent chance, when the makeup was changed meantime from either a dust to a paste. (Although Haley re-recorded virtually all of Ebsen's vocals, Ebsen's midwestern voice using a enunciated "R" in the word "Wizard" might however become heard on the soundtrack when you took a few the reprises of "We're Off to See the Wizard".) Fallowing a Oz debacle, Ebsen appeared just within minor Westerns for many years.

From either 1941 to 1946, Ebsen served as a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard.

His function inside television began when a buddy to Fess Parker in the Davy Crockett series, but he became illustrious within 1962 with the role of Jed Clampett in the tv show The Beverly Hillbillies. the indicate depicted a hillbilly family from the fabricated Bugtussle, sustaining rich around oil & moving to a rich front yard in Beverly Hills, California. Although detested by critics, the indicate wwhen a massive hit, attracting when numbers of as sixty milliin viewers on CBS between 1962 and 1971. It was however earning practiced ratings whenever it was canceled by CBS because advertizer shunned the series that attracted the rural audience. The conservative Republican, there was a bit of fallout from either Ebsen's refusal to endorse fellow Beverly Hillbillies co-star, the late Nancy Kulp, for a Congressional seat around Pennsylvania as she was "too liberal" for his tastes & he endorsed her opponent; it never spoke once more.

Ebsen as well got the notable role as a united states farmer in the 1961 movie ''Breakfast at Tiffany's, which is credited for bringing him to the attention of the producers of Beverly Hillbillies, who cast him in a similar role.

He late starred inside the TV detective series, Barnaby Jones, beginning in 1973 and running for virtually all of the decade. His previous operate was primarily around television, reprising his Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones roles

Athough typically out from either acting when he entered his 90s, Ebsen remained active & it was reported that he was trying his hand at writing the novel. He got an amusing cameo in the film version of The Beverly Hillbillies, over again swimming "Barnaby Jones", by owning a TV theme underscoring a scene.

A few writers use stated that his reaction to the atomic number 13 dust of the Tin Human was about calamitous. Ironically, he far outlived virtually all the cast & crewman of The Wizard of Oz, except for two or three Munchkins, although to become fair he was somewhat immature than virtually everthing of his major co-stars, except, course, for Judy Garland.

Filmography
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Captain January (1936) Born to Dance (1936) Banjo on My Knee (1936) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Yellow Jack (1938) My Lucky Star (1938) Four Girls in White (1939) The Kid from Texas (1939) Hollywood Hobbies (1939) (short subject) They Met in Argentina (1941) Parachute Battalion (1941) Sing Your Worries Away (1942) Under Mexicali Stars (1950) Silver City Bonanza (1951) Thunder in God's Country (1951) Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951) Utah Wagon Train (1951) Night People (1954) Red Garters (1954) Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1954) Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956) Attack (1956) Between Heaven and Hell (1956) Mission of Danger (1959) Frontier Rangers (1959) Fury River (1961) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) The Interns (1962) Mail Order Bride (1964) The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) Fire on the Mountain (1981) The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1993) (Cameo)