Quotes
 I`m used to getting up at dawn and going to the studio to be with my pals on the set. It`s my lifestyle and I wouldn`t trade it for any other - when asked why he had returned to the rigors of a weekly show ("Matt Houston" (1982)), at the age of 76. (1984). There are a lot of mes. -- commenting on having written a romance novel at age 93.
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You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have, I never will.
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You take a blank piece of paper and, whatever you`re thinking, you write it down. I`m very satisfied if, in my mind, it increased the value of the paper. That`s what writing should do. It should increase the value of the paper.
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`As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.` Often the values of the influences imposed on us by our mothers and fathers, our teachers and certain friends, are not realized until years later, when we, as a sailor does, look back at our wakes to determine the course we have steered that got us to where we are. Today when I look back, then look around me to see with whom I am standing, I fully realize the influence on my life that must be credited to DeMolay.
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Trivia
Father of Bonnie Ebsen, Kiki Ebsen and Alix Ebsen.
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Taught Judy Garland the shim-sham shimmy while they were at MGM.
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After seeing Ebsen in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), the creator of "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962) wanted him to play family patriarch Jed Clampett. At the time, Ebsen was thinking of retiring, but the producers sent him a copy of the script, and he changed his mind.
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In 1938 MGM offered him a seven-year contract, starting at $2,000 a week but requiring him to give the studio absolute control over his career. He rejected it. MGM blackballed him and his film career went into eclipse for nearly 20 years, until Walt Disney hired him to play Georgie Russel, Davy Crockett's sidekick, in Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955).
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His film career was ruined by Louis B. Mayer when Ebsen refused to sign an MGM contract that would "own" him to the studio.
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An outspoken Republican, he helped defeat Nancy Kulp, his co-star in "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962), in her 1984 Democratic congressional bid in Pennsylvania. Ebsen made radio ads for her opponent accusing Kulp of being "too liberal" and not good for the district. The two did not speak for years after the incident, but eventually settled their differences.
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Was initiated into DeMolay at the John M. Cheney Chapter in Orlando Florida, in 1926. DeMolay is a Masonic youth organization for young men between 12 and 21. Was inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame on June 21st, 1996.
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He served in the Coast Guard during WWII as the executive officer on the Pocatello, a submarine chaser in the North Pacific.
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Had four sisters - Helga, Norma, Vilma Ebsen and Leslie. He was the middle child.
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Owned a 36-acre ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida shortly before starting his film career.
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Set up the Ebsen School of Dance in Pacific Palisades, California. When Buddy was young, his father, a physical fitness advocate, taught dance in West Palm Beach, Florida. This is where Buddy and younger sister Vilma Ebsen learned their craft and they appeared in local and school productions.
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Fathered two daughters, Elizabeth and Alix, with his first wife, Ruth. And had an additional five children (Susannah, Cathy, Bonnie, Kiersten, and Dustin) with his second wife, Nancy.
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His "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962) co-star, Donna Douglas, had a lot in common. Like Buddy, she too is a successful singer (of gospel), is also a character actress, and is also a Republican.
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Had surgery on June 10, 1998 to repair an aortic valve in his heart.
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He and sister Vilma Ebsen performed in vaudeville doing variations on the same theme -- with Vilma playing a dancing instructor who teaches the seemingly uncoordinated country doofas Buddy how to dance. A vaudeville showstopper in such shows as "Whoopee!," "Flying Colors" and "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1934," they were known for a time as "The Baby Astaires."
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Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Jed Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962).
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One of his last roles was a gag cameo in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) in which Jim Varney played Jed. Ebsen showed up as Barnaby Jones.
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Was inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame on June 21st, 1996.
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Brother of Vilma Ebsen
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Wanted to become a doctor. He took premed courses at Rollins College and the University of Florida, but his mother pushed him into show business.
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Became a best-selling author at the age of 93. [2001]
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Appeared in three musical film extravaganzas starring tap great Eleanor Powell.
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In the 1930s, Disney animators filmed him dancing in front of a grid to "choreograph" Mickey Mouse's dance steps for the Silly Symphony cartoons.
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In the last two years of his life, he recorded his first CD in which he sang some of his own songs.
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Director Norman Foster first recommended Ebsen to Walt Disney to play Davy Crockett, and Disney was "half sold" on the idea. Then Disney saw Fess Parker in the sci-fi film Them! (1954) and cast the strapping actor as the famed frontiersman. Ebsen was crestfallen because he knew how big the picture would be. The next day the studio signed Ebsen on as Crockett's weatherbeaten sidekick, Georgie Russel. The part helped to turn his career around and arguably played a part in Ebsen's getting the role of the equally equally grizzled and popular Jed Clampett.
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Originally cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Buddy was hospitalized as a result of inhaling aluminum powder used as part of his make-up. One chorus of "We're Off to See the Wizard" in the movie and soundtrack album retain Ebsen's original vocals as the Tin Man, recorded before he was forced to leave the production. Because of the prolonged hospitalization, he was replaced by Jack Haley (whose reformulated make-up used pre-mixed aluminium dust), and Ebsen's scenes were re-shot using Haley. Footage of Ebsen as the Tin Man still exists, and was included as an extra with the U.S. 50th anniversary video release of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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His first wife, Ruth, was originally Walter Winchell's secretary/Girl Friday.
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Wrote a half dozen plays, five of which were produced, including a farce called "Honest John" in 1948 and "Champagne General" in 1973, a Civil War story. Also a part-time songwriter, he became a newly-published author of a romantic novel at the age of 93, entitled "Kelly's Quest ."
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His father owned a dance studio, and when Ebsen was a young boy insisted that he take dance lessons.
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