Eugene Twombly
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Early life
Eugene Twombly was born in California in 1914 to Ralph H. and Marie L. Twombly (née Tracy; 1892–1958).[2][3] He was the eldest of two children with a younger brother, Ralph Jr. (born 1922), and of partial Canadian ancestry from his paternal grandmother.[2]
Career
He is best known for his sound work on The Jack Benny Program,[4] where his wife, actress Bea Benaderet, played telephone operator Gertrude Gearshift. Other works included Arch Oboler's Lights Out,[5] The Stan Freberg Show,[6] The Gene Autry Show, The Whistler, and When the West Was Young,[7] and a collaboration with Bill Cosby and Frank Buxton on The Bill Cosby Radio Program, which aired 145 episodes from January to July 1968.[8][9]
The Jack Benny Program included occasional references to "Twombly, the sound-effects man," and Mel Blanc voiced a character called "George Twombly" who often interrupted Benny and his cast with impromptu sound effects.[10] In the 1962 first season of The Beverly Hillbillies (where Benaderet had a recurring role as Cousin Pearl Bodine), two consecutive episodes, "The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed" and "The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted," featured a psychiatrist named "Dr. Eugene Twombly" who was played by Herbert Rudley.[11]
Personal life and death
Gene Twombly was Bea Benaderet's second husband and the stepfather of actor Jack Bannon, and they resided in Calabasas, California. He died of a heart attack at age 54 on October 17, 1968, four days after her death from pneumonia and lung cancer and one day after her funeral.[12] They are interred together at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood.
References
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- ↑ Mott, Robert L. Radio Sound Effects: Who Did It, and How, in the Era of Live Broadcasting. McFarland & Company (2005) p. 246. Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Jack French and David S. Siegel. Radio Rides the Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929–1967. McFarland & Company (2013), p.198. Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Feldman, Leslie Dale. Rustics and Politics: The Political Theory of The Beverly Hillbillies. Lexington Books (2015), p. 77-78. Template:ISBN
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External links
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