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Ed Bakey

{{short description|American film and television actor (1925–1988)}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Ed Bakey

|birth_name = William Edward Baekey

|birth_date = {{birth date|1925|11|13}}

|birth_place = Havre de Grace, Maryland, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1988|05|04|1925|11|13}}

|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|occupation = Film and television actor

|alma mater = Baltimore City College

|years_active = 1944/1945–1988

}}

William Edward Baekey (November 13, 1925{{Citation|title=Man Of Fifty Faces|work=|location=Baltimore, Maryland|page=12|date=June 1960}} – May 4, 1988){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWVZAAAAMAAJ|title=Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers|page=46|first=Harris|last=Lentz|publisher=McFarland|date=1996|isbn=9780786402175|via=Google Books}} was an American film and television actor.

Life and career

Bakey was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and moved to Baltimore at an early age.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38382404/ed-bakey/|title=Look and Listen with Donald Kirkley|work=The Baltimore Sun|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=May 16, 1958|access-date=January 17, 2021|page=16|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38376818/ed-bakey/|title=Baltimore's Pop Pop Moves In On Hollywood|first=Donald|last=Kirkley|work=The Baltimore Sun|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=October 8, 1967|access-date=January 17, 2022|page=202|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} He attended Baltimore City College, graduating in 1943, and began his acting career in 1945 at the Hilltop Theatre. He later moved to New York to perform at the Provincetown Playhouse. He then worked as an announcer for the television station WBAL-TV and as a director for a radio station. In 1957 he appeared on the CBS television station WJZ-TV as the clown "Pop-Pop" in The Jack Wells Show.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGP9fbhnMSUC|title=Havre de Grace|page=86|first=Bill|last=Bates|publisher=Arcadia Pub.|date=2006|isbn=9780738542614|via=Google Books}} He also played the folk singer Eddie Greensleeve in Mike Wallace's program.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38382685/eddie-greensleeve-ed-bakey/|title=Eddie Greensleeve Is Ed Bakey|work=The Evening Sun|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=March 21, 1962|access-date=January 17, 2022|page=42|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

In 1966, he played George Beenstock in the Broadway play Walking Happy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/walking-happy-3353#OpeningNightCast|title=Walking Happy|work=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=January 17, 2022}} Bakey returned to television work in 1967, appearing in the western television series Death Valley Days. He guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, The F.B.I., The Big Valley, Bonanza, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Cimarron Strip, Dundee and the Culhane, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Night Gallery, Police Woman, One Day at a Time, Hill Street Blues and Star Trek.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/8585%7C42733/Ed-Bakey#overview|title=Ed Bakey|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=January 17, 2022}}

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. In 1973, he appeared in the film The Sting as "Granger".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoWvHF6c4gEC|title=Robert Redford: The Biography|page=527|first=Michael|last=Callan|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|date=May 2012|isbn=9780307475961|via=Google Books}} His final film credit was for the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.

Death

Bakey died in May 1988 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aB5CAQAAIAAJ|title=Films in Review: Volume 40|page=240|date=1989|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures|via=Google Books}}

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

|+Film acting work by Ed Bakey

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

{{dts|1969|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Heaven|with a Gun}}

| {{sortname|Scotty|Andrews|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1970|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Barquero| }}

| {{sortname|Happy| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1971|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Wild|Rovers}}

| {{sortname|Gambler| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1972|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Other|The Other (1972 film)}}

| {{sortname|Chan-yu| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1973|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Sting|The Sting}}

| {{sortname|Granger| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1974|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|For|Pete's|Sake|For Pete's Sake (film)}}

| {{sortname|Angelo| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1975|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Darktown|Strutters}}

| {{sortname|Reverend S.|Tilly|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1977|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|White Buffalo}}

| {{sortname|Ben|Corbett|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1977|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Telefon| |Telefon (film)}}

| {{sortname|Carl|Hassler|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1978|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Evil|The Evil (1978 film)}}

| {{sortname|Sam|the Caretaker|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1978|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Hot|Lead and Cold Feet}}

| {{sortname|Joshua| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1980|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Baltimore Bullet}}

| {{sortname|Skinny| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1981|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Dead &|Buried}}

| {{sortname|Fisherman| |nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Zapped!| }}

| {{sortname|Father|Gallagher|nolink=1}}

|

{{dts|1984|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Philadelphia Experiment|The Philadelphia Experiment (film)}}

| {{sortname|Pa|Willis|nolink=1}}

| Final film role

{{dts|1984|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Overnight|Sensation|nolink=1}}

| {{sortname|Wino| |nolink=1}}

| Short film

= Television=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

|+Television acting work by Ed Bakey

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

{{dts|1967|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Death|Valley Days}}

| {{sortname|Sam|Bass|nolink=1}}

| Episode: "The Informer Who Cried"

{{dts|1968|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Tarzan| |Tarzan (1966 TV series)}}

| {{sortname|Prince| |nolink=1}}

| Episode: "A Gun for Jai"

{{dts|1968|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Cimarron|Strip}}

| {{sortname|Bartender| |nolink=1}}

| Episode: "Without Honor"

{{dts|1967|format=y}}-{{dts|1969|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Guns of Will Sonnett}}

| Jellicoe / Homer Blessing

| 2 episodes

{{dts|1969|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Star|Trek}}

| The First Fop

| Episode: "All Our Yesterdays"

{{dts|1967|format=y}}-{{dts|1969|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Big Valley}}

| Burt Simpson / Link Mason / Floyd Stryder / Corell

| 4 episodes

{{dts|1970|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Lancer| |Lancer (TV series)}}

| Leach

| Episode: "The Experiment"

{{dts|1970|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|High Chaparral}}

| Jubel / Bates

| 2 episodes

{{dts|1970|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|F.B.I.|The F.B.I. (TV series)}}

| Scully

| Episode: "Incident in the Desert"

{{dts|1971|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|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"

{{dts|1970|format=y}}-{{dts|1971|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Mission:|Impossible|Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)}}

| Attendant / Dr. Kadar

| 2 episodes

{{dts|1972|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Night|Gallery}}

| Ollie

| Segment: "Lindemann's Catch"
Episode: "Lindemann's Catch/A Feast of Blood/The Late Mr. Peddington"

{{dts|1967|format=y}}-{{dts|1972|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Gunsmoke| }}

| Goody Stackpole / Farmer / Reverend Bright

| 3 episodes

{{dts|1968|format=y}}-{{dts|1972|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Bonanza| |Bonanza (TV Series)}}

| Lumis / Louby Sains / Hake

| 3 episodes

{{dts|1973|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Chase| |Chase (1973 TV series)}}

| Sonny

| Episode: "One for You, Two for Me"

{{dts|1973|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Dusty's|Trail}}

| {{N/A}}

| Episode: "Two of a Kind"

{{dts|1973|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Incident at Vichy

| Ferrand

| Television film

{{dts|1973|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Kung Fu

| Bloom

| 2 episodes

{{dts|1974|format=y}}

! scope="row" | The Godchild

| Shaw

| Television film

{{dts|1974|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Cannon| |Cannon (TV Series)}}

| Lt. Lincoln Gormley

| Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl"

{{dts|1975|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Streets of San Francisco}}

| Rummy

| Episode: "Letters from the Grave"

{{dts|1975|format=y}}

! scope="row" | The Honorable Sam Houston

| {{N/A}}

| Television film

{{dts|1975|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Night That Panicked America}}

| Vanderhoff

| Television film

{{dts|1975|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Starsky and Hutch

| Fifth Avenue

| Episode: "Lady Blue"

{{dts|1976|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Lincoln

| Citizen with Knife

| Episode: "The Last Days"

Uncredited
{{dts|1974|format=y}}-{{dts|1977|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Police Woman

| Mongoose / Jimmy Higgins / The Man

| 3 episodes

{{dts|1979|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Centennial

| Floyd Calendar

| Episode: "The Scream of Eagles"

{{dts|1979|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Charlie's Angels

| Ed Jackson

| Episode: "Angel in a Box"

{{dts|1980|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Kenny|Rogers as The Gambler}}

| Eli

| Television film

{{dts|1980|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|The|Georgia Peaches}}

| Desmond Winkus

| Television film

{{dts|1981|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Walking Tall

| Mr. Shallit

| Episode: "Company Town"

{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Rascals|and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn}}

| {{N/A}}

| Television film

{{dts|1981|format=y}}-{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Bret Maverick

| Lyman Nickerson / Deacon Tippett

| 3 episodes

{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Voyagers!

| Bastaine

| Episode: "Created Equal"

{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Johnny|Belinda|nolink=1}}

| {{N/A}}

| Television film

{{dts|1982|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Quincy, M.E.

| Jimbo

| Episode: "Science for Sale"

{{dts|1983|format=y}}

! scope="row" | One Day at a Time

| Man at Bar

| Episode: "Social Insecurity"

{{dts|1983|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Simon & Simon

| Rich Steck

| Episode: "Too Much of a Good Thing"

{{dts|1985|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Murder, She Wrote

| Monsignor Kelly

| Episode: "Broadway Malady"

{{dts|1985|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Crazy Like a Fox

| {{N/A}}

| Episode: "Motor Homicide"

{{dts|1985|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Days of Our Lives

| Earl Watkins

| 3 episodes

{{dts|1986|format=y}}

! scope="row" | The New Gidget

| Lovebeads

| Episode: "Fighting City Hall"

{{dts|1986|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Hill Street Blues

| Mr. Goldfarb

| Episode: "Say Uncle"

{{dts|1987|format=y}}

! scope="row" | Highway to Heaven

| Paul

| Episode: "Wally"

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0049056}}
  • {{TCMDb name|8585%7C42733}}
  • [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ed_bakey/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]

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