Eddie Firestone (December 11, 1920 – March 1, 2007), sometimes known as Eddie Firestone Jr., was an American radio, television, and film actor who accumulated over 200 total credits during his performing career.
He played the wino who was kidnapped in Hawaii 5-0 Season 2, Episode 13 "The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild."
Early life
When he was 12, Firestone, along with Harold Peary, was in the cast of Wheatenaville, a program broadcast on NBC's Pacific network beginning September 26, 1932.[1]
Some of the first television appearances with Firestone was in the first season of Jack Webb's Dragnet (1951–52). He guest-starred in "The Big Lamp" in Season 1, Episode 14 on Dragnet, in Season 1, Episode 3 of The Dick Van Dyke Show he played Tom Edson in "Sally and the lab technician". He wore a suit, bowtie, was clean shaven, had big round glasses and played a girl-shy, nerdy lab technician that works up his nerve to take Sally on a date. He was cast in a 1961 episode of "The Charity Drive" of Window on Main Street. Firestone appeared in several roles on the popular Western television series Bonanza, Hogan's Heroes, as well as in Walt Disney's feature film The Great Locomotive Chase. He also appeared on Perry Mason ("The Case of the "Dodging Domino", 1962; "The Case of the Decadent Dean", 1963; "The Case of a Place Called Midnight", 1964). He appeared in Barnaby Jones, in the 1975 episode "Trap Play". In 1967, he appeared in the only two part episode of Gunsmoke, entitled "Nitro". He returned to Gunsmoke in 1974 in the episode "The Tarnished Badge". He also guest-starred in "Prosecutor", the 1970 debut of The Silent Force. He guest starred in three episodes of The Rockford Files. He also appeared in the last episode of Logan's Run titled "Stargate" in 1978.
