Dick Wesson (actor)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Richard Lewis WessonScript error: No such module "Unsubst". (November 19, 1922 – April 25, 1996) was a prolific character actor, comedian, comedy writer, and producer.
Biography
Dick Wesson was born on November 19, 1922, in Boston, Massachusetts. A comedian, impressionist and singer, Wesson appeared with his brother Gene in a comedy act titled "The Wesson Brothers". They had some hit records, such as "Oodles of Boodle" and "All Right Louie, Drop the Gun".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1949, Wesson became a television series regular with Jim Backus in Hollywood House. Making his film debut in Destination Moon (1950),[1] Wesson signed a contract with Warner Bros., leaving the studio in 1953. His films there included Breakthrough, Calamity Jane (1953), and The Desert Song.[2] Wesson played comic relief in all his films, frequently as an infantry soldier, as in Force of Arms (1951), and in the Old West with The Man Behind the Gun (1952) and The Charge at Feather River (1953). Wesson's best known role was as female impersonator Francis Fryer in Calamity Jane.
Wesson moved to television, appearing as Jackie Cooper's ex-United States Marine Corps sidekick Rollo, on The People's Choice[3]Template:R/superscript and as Frank Crenshaw in The Bob Cummings Show.[3] Wesson began writing for The Bob Cummings Show and later The Beverly Hillbillies. He appeared in The Beverly Hillbillies as a taxi driver and as a patient in the season 1 episode "The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed". He produced My Sister Eileen and many episodes of Petticoat Junction as well as directed several episodes of each series.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He portrayed Jack Reardon on the 1974 CBS situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers.[3]Template:R/superscript
Wesson later died of an aneurysm on April 25, 1996, in Rancho Mirage, California.[4]
Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1950 | Destination Moon | Joe Sweeney | |
| 1950 | Breakthrough | Pvt. Sammy Hansen | |
| 1951 | Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison | Tinker | |
| 1951 | Force of Arms | Kleiner | |
| 1951 | Jim Thorpe – All-American | Ed Guyac | |
| 1951 | Sunny Side of the Street | Dave Gibson | |
| 1951 | Starlift | Sgt. Mike Nolan | |
| 1952 | About Face | Dave Crouse | |
| 1953 | The Man Behind the Gun | Sgt. 'Monk' Walker | |
| 1953 | The Desert Song | Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd | |
| 1953 | The Charge at Feather River | Pvt. Cullen | |
| 1953 | Calamity Jane | Francis Fryer | |
| 1955 | Paris Follies of 1956 | Chuck Russell | |
| 1961 | The Errand Boy | The A.D. | |
| 1977 | Rollercoaster | Tourist Father | |
Script error: No such module "Portal".
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Side box".
- Dick Wesson at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Great character actors http://www.playbrass.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Dick&actor_last=Wesson
- Wesson with Sammy Davis Jr. on Hollywood House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpcY0svdvU
Script error: No such module "Authority control".
- Pages with script errors
- 1922 births
- 1996 deaths
- American male comedians
- American television directors
- American male television actors
- American male film actors
- Television writers from California
- American male television writers
- Male actors from Boston
- Male actors from Los Angeles
- 20th-century American male actors
- Comedians from Los Angeles
- Screenwriters from Massachusetts
- 20th-century American comedians
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 20th-century American male writers
- Deaths from aneurysm
- Comedians from Boston