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Ed Bakey
Ed Bakey
Born	William Edward Baekey; November 13, 1925; Havre de Grace, Maryland, U.S.
Died	May 4, 1988 (aged 62); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Baltimore City College
Occupation(s)	Film and television actor
Years active	1944/1945–1988

William Edward Baekey (November 13, 1925^[1] – May 4, 1988)^[2] was an American film and television actor.^[3]

Life and career

Bakey was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and moved to Baltimore at an early age.^[4]^[5] He attended Baltimore City College, graduating in 1943,^[5] and began his acting career in 1945 at the Hilltop Theatre.^[4] He later moved to New York to perform at the Provincetown Playhouse.^[4] He then worked as an announcer for the television station WBAL-TV and as a director for a radio station.^[4]^[5] In 1957 he appeared on the CBS television station WJZ-TV as the clown "Pop-Pop" in The Jack Wells Show.^[6]^[4]^[5] He also played the folk singer Eddie Greensleeve in Mike Wallace's program.^[7]

In 1966, he played George Beenstock in the Broadway play Walking Happy.^[5]^[8] Bakey returned to television work in 1967, appearing in the western television series Death Valley Days. He guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke,^[5] Mission: Impossible, The F.B.I., The Big Valley,^[5] Bonanza, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Cimarron Strip, Dundee and the Culhane,^[5] The Guns of Will Sonnett, Night Gallery, Police Woman, One Day at a Time, Hill Street Blues and Star Trek.^[3]

Bakey’s film credits include The White Buffalo, Zapped!, Darktown Strutters, The Evil, Heaven with a Gun, For Pete's Sake, The Baltimore Bullet and Telefon.^[3] In 1973, he appeared in the film The Sting.^[3]^[9] His final film credit was for the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.^[3]

Death

Bakey died in May 1988 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Film acting work by Ed Bakey
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Heaven with a Gun	Scotty Andrews
1970	Barquero	Happy
1971	Wild Rovers	Gambler
1972	The Other	Chan-yu
1973	The Sting	Granger
1974	For Pete's	Angelo
1975	Darktown Strutters	Reverend S. Tilly
1977	The White Buffalo	Ben Corbett
1977	Telefon	Carl Hassler
1978	The Evil	Sam the Caretaker
1978	Hot Lead and Cold Feet	Joshua
1980	The Baltimore Bullet	Skinny
1981	Dead & Buried	Fisherman
1982	Zapped!	Father Gallagher
1984	The Philadelphia Experiment	Pa Willis	Final film role
1984	Overnight Sensation {{{last}}}	Wino	Short film

Television

Television acting work by Ed Bakey
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Death Valley Days	Sam Bass	Episode: "The Informer Who Cried"
1968	Tarzan	Prince	Episode: "A Gun for Jai"
1968	Cimarron Strip	Bartender	Episode: "Without Honor"
1967-1969	The Guns of Will Sonnett	Jellicoe / Homer Blessing	2 episodes
1969	Star Trek	The First Fop	Episode: "All Our Yesterdays"
1967-1969	The Big Valley	Burt Simpson / Link Mason / Floyd Stryder / Corell	4 episodes
1970	Lancer	Leach	Episode: "The Experiment"
1970	The High Chaparral	Jubel / Bates	2 episodes
1970	The F.B.I.	Scully	Episode: "Incident in the Desert"
1971	Love, American Style	Filbus	Segment: "Love and the Traveling Salesman" Episode: "Love and the Artful Codger/Love and the Neglected Wife/Love and the Traveling Salesman"
1970-1971	Mission: Impossible	Attendant / Dr. Kadar	2 episodes
1972	Night Gallery	Ollie	Segment: "Lindemann's Catch" Episode: "Lindemann's Catch/A Feast of Blood/The Late Mr. Peddington"
1967-1972	Gunsmoke	Goody Stackpole / Farmer / Reverend Bright	3 episodes
1968-1972	Bonanza	Lumis / Louby Sains / Hake	3 episodes
1973	Chase	Sonny	Episode: "One for You, Two for Me"
1973	Dusty's Trail	—	Episode: "Two of a Kind"
1973	Incident at Vichy	Ferrand	Television film
1973	Kung Fu	Bloom	2 episodes
1974	The Godchild	Shaw	Television film
1974	Cannon	Lt. Lincoln Gormley	Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl"
1975	The Streets of San Francisco	Rummy	Episode: "Letters from the Grave"
1975	The Honorable Sam Houston	—	Television film
1975	The Night That Panicked America	Vanderhoff	Television film
1975	Starsky and	Fifth Avenue	Episode: "Lady Blue"
1976	Lincoln	Citizen with Knife	Episode: "The Last Days" Uncredited
1974-1977	Police Woman	Mongoose / Jimmy Higgins / The Man	3 episodes
1979	Centennial	Floyd Calendar	Episode: "The Scream of Eagles"
1979	Charlie's Angels	Ed Jackson	Episode: "Angel in a Box"
1980	Kenny Rogers as The Gambler	Eli	Television film
1980	The Georgia Peaches	Desmond Winkus	Television film
1981	Walking Tall	Mr. Shallit	Episode: "Company Town"
1982	Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	—	Television film
1981-1982	Bret Maverick	Lyman Nickerson / Deacon Tippett	3 episodes
1982	Voyagers!	Bastaine	Episode: "Created Equal"
1982	Johnny Belinda	—	Television film
1982	Quincy M.E.	Jimbo	Episode: "Science for Sale"
1983	One Day at a Time	Man at Bar	Episode: "Social Insecurity"
1983	Simon & Simon	Rich Steck	Episode: "Too Much of a Good Thing"
1985	Murder, She Wrote	Monsignor Kelly	Episode: "Broadway Malady"
1985	Crazy Like a Fox	—	Episode: "Motor Homicide"
1985	Days of Our Lives	Earl Watkins	3 episodes
1986	The New Gidget\The New Gidget (TV Series)	Lovebeads	Episode: "Fighting City Hall"
1986	Hill Street Blues	Mr. Goldfarb	Episode: "Say Uncle"
1987	Highway to Heaven	Paul	Episode: "Wally"