Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy "Buddy" Lee , July 29, 1933), is an American horse breeder and retired actor. He started his career on television, starring primarily in Western programs, while appearing in two films: The Brain of Planet Arous and Thunder Youth (both in 1957).
In his five decades of television, Fuller was known for his deep and hoarse voice and familiarity to television viewers throughout the 1960s and 1970s from his roles as Jess Harper and Cooper Smith on the popular series of the 1960s Laramie and Wagon Train, and is also well known for its primary role as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the 1970s medical drama Emergency!
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Fuller was born as Leonard Leroy Lee on July 29, 1933, in Troy, New York, the only child of Betty Simpson, a dance instructor. Before his birth, Betty married Robert Simpson, Sr., an Academy Navy officer. In 1939, at the age of 6, his family moved to Key West, Florida, where, already known as "Buddy," he took the name of Robert Simpson Jr. live acting and dancing. Her parents have a dancing school in Florida. His family also moved to Chicago, Illinois, where they stayed for 1 year, before moving back to Florida. Simpson Jr., when she was still officially recognized, attended Miami Military School for fifth and sixth grade, and Key West Middle School for ninth grade. He broke up in 1948, at the age of 14, due to the fact that he did not like school and did poorly there. In 1950, at the age of 16, he traveled with his family to Hollywood, California, where his first job was to act as a substitute. He also worked at Grauman's Chinese Theater, starting as a doorman and working up to Assistant Managers at the age of 18. At the insistence of friends, Simpson Jr who joined the Screen Actors Guild, started a career in acting, and changed his name from Robert Simpson Jr.. to Robert Fuller, the name with which he will be known in the most prominent part.
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Careers
Initial work - movies and television
Fuller's first little role was in addition to the 1952 film Above and Beyond. This section leads to many additional jobs on many projects, one of which is in I Love Melvin. In 1953, he again had another small part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe. Fuller's career was then detained for service in the United States Army. He served an official trip in Korea and returned to the United States in 1955. Although he had considered stopping acting, Fuller, on the advice of his best friend, Chuck Courtney, attended Richard Boone's acting class. Boone suggests Fuller's study under the care of Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse New York City. Fuller's first speaking role was in Friendly Persuasion in 1956, where he worked with his future Laramie against John Smith and another close friend, Doug McClure.
In the 1956 episode "The Comeback" in the religious anthology series, Crossroads, Fuller played the role of a former soldier. In the storyline, Don DeFore, as Reverend C. E. "Stoney" Jackson, offers spiritual insights to help Lou Brissie (Chuck Connors) recover from the wounds he suffered in World War II to allow him to return to professional baseball. Grant Withers emerged when the Whitey Martin Coach and Crossroads regular Robert Carson emerged as coaches.
In 1957, Fuller was cast in the lead role of his first film on Teens of Thunder. He said about it:
Also in 1957, Fuller starred in the science fiction film The Brain from Planet Arous.
Television jobs in the late 1950s and 1960s
Fuller became a very popular character actor, guest starred in dozens of television programs including Buckskin, The Big Valley, The California Official Detective, The Restless Gun, The Lawless Years (in the role of "Cutie Jaffe" on May 7, 1959), US Marshal < i> Panic !, M Troops, Rin Tin Tin Adventure, "The Monroes" and Lux Playhouse. He also appeared in the series
On February 24, 1959, Fuller became a guest star in the episode "Blind Is the Killer," in NBC's Cimarron City television series. This performance prompted him to become a lead role seven months later at Laramie, one of the few network programs set up in Wyoming. Fuller emerged as Joe Cole, a sniper looking for a reputation, who found his target in Cimarron City Mayor Matt Rockford, played by George Montgomery. Cole temporarily blinded Rockford with a glass from a broken whiskey bottle. The two ended up at peace after each had a chance to prove his courage. John Smith, Fuller's fellow at Laramie, was a regular at Cimarron City and both appeared together briefly in this episode, which also featured Dennis McCarthy as Dr. "Doc" Hodges, who managed to treat Rockford's eyes.
In the summer of 1959, Fuller starred as a young villain, Buck Harmon, in the episode "The Friend" on the ABC/Warner Brothers Western series, Lawman. In the storyline, Harmon is alienated. from the minister, played by Robert F. Simon. When the gang of criminals came to Laramie, Buck exchanged sides to help his old friend, Deputy Johnny McKay (Peter Brown). In a firing shot, Harmon was shot dead, but his father survived.
In 1959, Patrick Kelly called Fuller to his office to offer him the chance to become an Academy Award winner, Ray Milland, in the CBS detective series, Markham. Fuller quickly rejected the role because he wanted to perform in the western. He is David Dortort's second choice for Luth Greene's most arrogant, mischievous boy role, Joseph "Little Joe" Cartwright, on NBC's Bonanza but he loses the role to another young actor and then unknown - Michael Landon , whose career was made by that role. At about the same time, Fuller gained a role starring Jess Harper in Laramie, running from 1959 to 1963, and Fuller was cast against his best friends, John Smith. Being an unknown actor and battling that he, Fuller was asked to do a screen test for the character Slim Sherman, and John Smith had originally been acting as Jess Harper. Fuller insisted that he would be better off as Harper, and after screen tests, he won the role of Jess, while Smith got the Slim part.
Laramie finally aired in over 70 countries. When Laramie ended his operation, Fuller jumped to the other west, Wagon Train, with John McIntire (veteran film actor, guest star twice in Laramie, and future stars of The Virginian, Frank McGrath and Terry Wilson. According to an interview on August 17, 2009 for On Screen and Beyond, Fuller noted that he was not taken to the show to replace Robert Horton (an actor Fuller met in 1954, when he and his friend, James Drury) contracted at MGM, and befriended for 62 years until Horton's death in March 2016) in the wagon scout role. He resembles Horton and both share the same birthday, but Horton is a fuller nine year old Fuller. When Horton wore a dark cowboy hat, Fuller usually wore a lightweight hat. Horton has departed from the previous season's players, and McIntire has brought the series for a year. Fuller stepped in the following year, where he remained in the series (which turned to ABC in 1962) until it finally ended after two additional seasons.
Over the next six years, Fuller appeared in several obscure films. It seems his career was stalled because the West is slowly retiring from the American film industry. The only exception is his role as Vin in Return of the Seven (1966) which is a simple, if not excited, sequel to The Magnificent Seven.
In 1966, Fuller starred in the Western movie Incident at Phantom Hill. In the same year, he described poor western military captain William Judd Fetterman in the episode of "The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney," near Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming, one of NBC's Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater. His stars include Richard Egan, Phyllis Avery, Robert Pine, and Carroll O'Connor. Emergency!
After producer Jack Webb saw Fuller in the 1971 movie The Hard Ride, he asked the Fuller star in his new NBC medical drama, Emergency! Webb signed his own ex-wife, 1950s/1960s B-movie singer and actress Julie London, as Nurse Dixie McCall alongside her current husband, Bobby Troup, as Dr. Joe Early. Fuller is reluctant to play doctors, especially in settings with contemporary urban settings, but Webb is constantly convincing him to accept Dr. Kelly Brackett, Head of Emergency Medicine at Rampart General Hospital is fictitious. In a 2009 interview with On Screen and Beyond , Fuller said that he has twice, politely, rejected Brackett's role. Webb then reminded Fuller, let alone politely, that the Western shows had been repeatedly canceled for the previous five years and that the genre was declining.
Fuller and London co-star on Emergency! is an actor previously unknown to Randolph Mantooth as John Roderick "Johnny" Gage and Kevin Tighe as Roy DeSoto, both of whom played paramedics. The other casters got along very well with Fuller and London, who themselves, became the surrogate moms for the two men. During the first season, as a mid-season replacement in the 1971-1972 season and despite the fiercest and strong competition from CBS All in the Family, In the 1980s and 1990s
In 1980, Fuller starred in the pilot of the CBS Western series, Jake's Way, as the title character, along with young young actor Ben Lemon, Kristin Griffith and Stephen McNaughton; series failed to sell. As the 1990s approached, he played supporting roles on more than 20 television shows, including The Love Boat, The Fall Guy (in two episodes that united him with Lee Majors, who meet Fuller in Big Valley, Killing, Writing (which brings him together with Eddie Albert, guest guest with Fuller in Laramie), Matt Houston, Tour of Duty, The Journey of Brisco County Jr., JAG, JAG, and Diagnosis: Murder, in an episode that unites it with a former co-star Emergency! Randolph Mantooth ( Malibu Fire ). Toward the end of his acting career, he has a recurring role as Jess great granddaughter Wade Harper at Walker, Texas Ranger with Chuck Norris and Clarence Gilyard. He also plays another character in the same series (in the second part of the episode "Last of a Breed") before being cast as Wade.
Personal life
Fuller is a great singer. He performed several "bandstand" performances with rock group Bill Aken Los Nomadas on holiday celebrations at Whiskey Flats, California. When acting as a big marshal for the local Memorial Day parade, he performed the 1950s song vocals "Caribbean," singing the same verse repeatedly. He then told the band that he only knew the first verse of the song. In 1967, he recorded LP in Munich, Germany. Most of the songs were recorded in German, including "Ein Einsamer Cowboy" ("Lonesome Cowboy"), "Adios Mexicana", "Uberall Auf Der Welt" ("Worldwide"), "Sind Wie Blumen "(" Girls Are Like Flowers "). Whether the album was a success in Germany is unknown.
By the 1990s Fuller had largely retired from the film business. Since May 19, 2001, she has been married to actress Jennifer Savidge, known for her role at NBC's St. Elsewhere series. Through Savidge, Fuller also became an excellent friend with his acting coach, veteran producer and actor Norman Lloyd, who plays Dr. Daniel Auschlander. Fuller had previously been married for 22 years with Patricia Lee Lyon, whom he married on December 20, 1962, and with whom he had three children: Rob, Christine, and Patrick. Both were divorced in 1984; Lyon died, the year after the divorce.
Since March 18, 1990, Fuller, along with old friend James Drury, has been on the annual celebrity celebrity panel of the West, a public/private party where a big fan can ask questions about his role in Laramie, Wagon Train, and other Western. He also told his story of being a cowboy. Included at the party are Western-style dancing, lunch and dinner.
From October 9 to October 11, 1998, Fuller reunited with the rest of Emergency players! that survived, in Emergency! Convention '98, which took place at the Hilton Burbank Airport in Burbank, California. All the main actors were present except Julie London, who suffered a stroke in 1995. London Bobby Troup's husband attended just four months before his own death. Fuller and the rest of the cast and crew answer fan questions and relive about time with them, where the players say they get along well.
On March 10, 2010, Fuller presented James Drury with "Cowboy Spirit Award" at the Western Festival. He also paid tribute to John Smith, who died fifteen years earlier on January 25, 1995 from liver cirrhosis and heart problems. In his tribute he told many details about Smith's life, especially the on-screen and off-screen chemistry during their days at Laramie. Smith also attended the Festival of the West for two seasons before his declining health made it impossible for him to show up.
On October 9, 2010, Fuller, James Drury, and Don Reynolds participated in the Wild West Toy Show, sponsored by Bob Terry at Azle near Fort Worth, Texas. The event promotes horse riding and the purchase and exchange of Western goods.
In September 2012 Fuller, along with several other western celebrities, attends the annual Spirit of the Cowboy Western festival held at Chestnut Square in McKinney, Texas. The show is billed as the largest and best Western festival in North Texas.
In mid-2004, Fuller and his wife Jennifer Savidge moved from Los Angeles to North Texas to raise horses on a farm. Neighbor and long-term friend Alex Cord urged Fuller to move to Cooke County. The two, who were the same age, had met in 1961 on set of Laramie when Cord made his television acting debut. Former old friend and old friend, Emergency! , Randolph Mantooth, said in an interview with Tom Blixa from WTVN that he will no longer be in touch with Fuller because of relocation.
Fuller's stepfather, Robert Simpson, Sr., died in 2009.
On July 29, 2013, Fuller celebrated his 80th birthday with his fans and his wife while on vacation at a farm in Libby, Montana.
Friendship with other actors
James Drury
Longest long-term friendship was with James Drury, whom he met (along with Robert Horton, 9 year senior Fuller) when all three were contracted by MGM in 1954. Drury put Fuller in touch with Jock Mahoney, who in turn contacted Dick Jones. When their contract ended, Drury and Fuller moved to Universal, where they each starred in their Western series. In 1959, Fuller co-starred in another longtime friend John Smith in Laramie before joining the Wagon Train players after the cancellation of Laramie. ), while Drury starred in The Virginian for 9 seasons between 1962 and 1971. Fuller appeared on The Virginian later on his run, in two episodes where Drury did not show up.
Drury is a fan of the Fuller series and Julie London Emergency! , an event that lasted 8 1/2 years. In an interview with other Fuller friends, Drury said, "I know Bobby Troup very well, we've done some shows together, but I never really knew Julie, except just to meet him, Bobby [of course] a lifetime friends with him, and so on, but I never spend time on the road with him, but I think Bobby Fuller does... Fuller... does not really want to do a modern show He wants to do other West, but Jack Webb persuaded him or insisted he did it, and he was very happy, [of course] because it was a great success and he had a wonderful time with Julie London and Bobby Troup. "
Julie London
Fuller's second longest friendship was Julie London, a newly popular young singer and successful film actress, whom she met (with her future husband husband Bobby Troup, 15 years fuller senior), when she stopped for a beer at a club in Los Angeles, California, in 1955. Being seven years older, the young actor, unknown, fought and even watched his own singing. Then, five years later, London will be a guest star with Fuller on the first episode of Laramie's second season, "Queen Of Diamonds." London acts part of the sheriff's wife (played by Claude Akins). The episode continued Fuller into a beautiful relationship, while at about the same time, he kept in touch with Troup. At the end of 1971, thanks to a former London husband (Jack Webb), he had no choice but to reunite with London & Troup, to star in Emergency! , with them, where the three soon had a beautiful chemistry on screen and off-screen each other, and they all used a 12-lb medical dictionary to say the words. When Emergency! canceled, after more than 130 episodes, Fuller kept in touch with London. Thanks to the popularity of London in Emergency! , Jack Webb wants Julie London to be the executive producer of the future project, when he refused, and as a result, he retired from acting. Like Drury, London is also called Fuller, "Bobby."
According to his playmate and London's second husband, Bobby Troup, London is known as a very private and introverted woman who spends most of his time with his extended family and hates attending performances. London died on October 18, 2000, almost 2 years after the Troup, on February 7, 1999. Fuller, London and the rest of the Emergencies! who survived attending his funeral.
In a June 2013 interview with Tom Blixa of WTVN, Fuller said of his medical and secondary partner, Julie London, who has what he calls "mouth toilet". He added: "He's supposed to be a sailor I tell you I love Julie I've known Julie for years and one of the things that makes me happy Emergency is to work with Julie and Bobby because they are my friends I've known them for years, Julie did Laramie with me and I love her I like her to sing and I like the game But for Julie, to go with what and when it comes out of his mouth it sounds like candy and we love it.
In an interview September 2017 with Joe Collura of the Quad-City Times, Fuller said of when he met his future Emergency! Julie London, soon after her time in the Armed Forces: "Shortly after that I got out of the Army in '55, I happened to be in a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard drinking a beer when this lovely blonde suddenly came out with a guy with a guitar, "he recalled. "The woman started singing and I could not take my eyes off her, that was my acquaintance with Julie London, and that year I met Richard Boone for the first time."
Clu Gulager
While fighting as an actor, Clu Gulager meets Fuller in the fourth episode of Laramie, where Gulager plays a personal role that appears on Sherman Ranch Relay Station beaten and half starved for help from Jess Harper, who is his brother-in-law. The friendship starts from there and the connection of a lifetime begins. Gulager also reunited with Fuller on 2 more episodes of Wagon Train and 1 episode The Virginian, where Gulager is credited as a star, but like Drury, Gulager does not appear in the episode.
In 1995, along with Fuller, Drury and Walker, Gulager also appeared on an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, where his role was a drunken deputy.
In 2012, after six decades of acting, at the age of 83, Gulager retires, but keeps in touch with Fuller and travels with him to various festivals including the Festival of the West and the Memphis Film Festival.
John Smith
When he was only 23 years old, Fuller first met the lesser-known actor John Smith, along with another new young actor, Doug McClure (co-star of Drury's future at The Virginian), in Friendly Persuasion movie where it has only a limited line. The two began developing lifelong friendships, in 1956. At the same time estimate when starring alongside Smith in Laramie Fuller also gave guest stars to Smith on the episode of Cimmaron City.
During the time Smith starred with Fuller on Laramie, both of them had incredible chemistry both on and off the screen and would even meet with the familiar guest star, as well as the unknown, who went on to things bigger and better. When Laramie ended in 1963 after a 4-season run and 124 episodes, Fuller moved to the Wagon Train players where he created part of a character that mimics himself, while Smith found himself a victim of typecasting as Slim Sherman.
Smith has also been a guest star in several roles, especially Emergency! with Fuller & amp; London, and Police Girl with Angie Dickinson, but in time retired from acting.
The only one for Fuller, Smith is also a social butterfly, known for traveling and raising horses. She was the first guest at the Festival of The West. However, poor health prevents him from attending. He died on January 25, 1995, and was cremated.
Alex Cord
At the age of 28, at the same age as Fuller, Alex Cord met him in an episode of Laramie that plays the son of Dan Duryea's character. This is the first guest role starring Cord in a long career. Both are friendly.
In 2002, one year after Fuller remarried, Cord served as his companion. Then Fuller attended Cord's wedding to Susannah Moller, where Fuller served as the best man. Two years later, Fuller moved with his wife to Texas, becoming a Cord neighbor.
James Best
Already a very popular actor and movie star from several Westerns, Fuller meets James Best, on the sixth episode of Laramie. Best plays a worrying young man coming back to the camp that demanded Jess Harper is knowledgeable helping save a young man dying of snakebite. Both have great connections and because the authors love him from his first appearance, Best will then perform two additional guest spots at Laramie with Fuller, long before landing the lead role in the popular action-comedy movie, The Dukes of Hazzard , in the 1980s and later, two films, in 1997 and 2000.
Being a traveling person like himself, 'Jimmie' will travel to the festival and meet up with 'Bobby' many times.
On June 12, 2013, 86 years old, and very healthy at the time, Best reunited with Fuller, Drury, Johnny Crawford and Henry Darrow at the Memphis Film Festival in Olive Branch, Mississippi, where hordes of Western fans could ask questions before attended sock-hop dance.
On November 8, 2014, aged 88, Best's last performance with Fuller was when the two (along with their wife) flew to Los Angeles, California from their home (Best lives in North Carolina), to celebrate their friends' 100th Birthday , Norman Lloyd (who worked with Fuller's wife, Jennifer Savidge at St. Elsewhere), and remembered Norman's memory. Five months later, on April 6, 2015, Fuller lost to pneumonia. Fuller did not attend his funeral in North Carolina.
Awards
In 1961, Fuller won the Best Actor Award in Japan and the Golden Order of Merit Japan, presented by the Japanese Consort. Fuller was the first American to get this award.
In 1970, he won 5 Ottos, which is equivalent to the German Emmy Awards. That same year, he won the Buffalo Bill award for Outstanding Western Entertainment.
On April 16, 1974, Fuller won the Supreme Service Award from Huntsville Fire Department. This award is to bring recognition to the firefighting profession and to its support for emergency aid personnel across the country.
For his contribution to the television industry, Robert Fuller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Blvd.
In 1989, he won the Golden Boot Award.
On March 18, 2006, Jess Harper's bronze statue at the Traveler was awarded to him by The Robert Fuller Fandom and The National Festival Of The West in recognition of his working years in the entertainment industry.
In April 2007, Fuller was appointed National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
On October 12, 2007, she won a Silver Spur Award with Stuart Whitman, Peter Brown, and Dean Smith, who received a lifetime achievement award.
On October 12, 2013, Fuller was the first recipient of the Spirit of the Cowboy Lonestar Legacy Award, a new award recognizing his status in the industry, as a true Western hero.
References
External links
- Robert Fuller on IMDb
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