Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of five.[1] He acted with Mary MacMurtrie's Children's Theater in Tucson and with the Tucson Little Theater.[2] He graduated from the University of Arizona with a major in theater.[1] He received the university's Best Actor Award in two seasons worked with the Globe Theater in San Diego during one summer.[3]
On television, Fudge portrayed Lou Dalton in the drama 7th Heaven,[4]: 950 C. W. Crawford in the adventure series Man from Atlantis,[4]: 649–650 and Jim Kimbrough in the crime drama Eischied.[4]
Fudge appeared in many television movies based on popular series, such as Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College, Matlock: The Witness Killings, and Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For.[citation needed] He had a turn as the title character in the M*A*S*H episode "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", which was nominated for a Humanitas Prize.
Fudge's work on stage included performing at the Charles Playhouse in Boston.[5] For three years, he acted with the APA-Phoenix Theatre.[6] He appeared on Broadway, including being part of the original cast of War and Peace at the Lyceum Theatre in 1967. His other credits on Broadway included Hamlet (1969), The Show Off (1968), Pantagleize (1968), The Cherry Orchard (1968), You Can't Take It With You (1967), The Wild Duck (1967), We, Comrades Three (1966), and The School for Scandal (1966).[7]
Death
Fudge died in Los Angeles at the age of 67, as a result of lung and liver cancer, on October 10, 2011.[1]
^ abcTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 302. ISBN978-0786464777.
