Jimmy Noel
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{{short description|American actor, musician and stuntman}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Jimmy Noel
|image = Jimmy Noel (right) and Douglas Fowley, in a scene from "The Magic Puddle" in the series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.".jpg
|caption = Noel (right) with Douglas Fowley in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, 1957
|birth_name = Herbert James Noel
|birth_date = {{birth date|1903|05|15}}
|birth_place = Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1985|01|31|1903|05|15}}
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|occupation = Actor, musician, stuntman
|years_active = 1933–1981
|spouse = DeLories Ziegfeld (1933 - ?)
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Herbert James Noel (May 15, 1903 – January 31, 1985) was an American actor, musician and stuntman.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-hYmPstZmIC|title=Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930–1967|page=485|first=Don|last=Rayno|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2003|isbn=9780810883222|via=Google Books}}
Life and career
Noel was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.riflemanconnors.com/jimmy_noel.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704014921/http://www.riflemanconnors.com/jimmy_noel.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 4, 2013|title=Jimmy Noel|work=The Rifleman|access-date=September 29, 2022}} He was guitarist and singer with the trio The Rhythm Boys. He decided to leave the trio in 1935. After leaving, he worked as a police officer in Chicago, Illinois. He later moved to California, where he began his film and television career.
In 1938, Noel had his own band and appeared 12 times a week on radio. He played banjo, drums, guitar, and piano.{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Murray |title=The Kilocycle Spotlight! |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112347597/the-brooklyn-citizen/ |access-date=November 1, 2022 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |date=March 3, 1938 |page=14|via = Newspapers.com}}
Noel's film career began with the 1944 film The Big Bonanza. He then appeared in the 1945 film Colorado Pioneers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/87599/Colorado-Pioneers/overview|title=Colorado Pioneers (1945)|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025849/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/87599/Colorado-Pioneers/overview|archive-date=November 17, 2015|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} He made numerous appearances in films such as Border Saddlemates, Ride the Man Down, The Oklahoman, Man from Del Rio, The Rawhide Years, The Fighting Chance, North to Alaska (with John Wayne), The Brass Legend and Masterson of Kansas.
Noel began appearing on television in 1953, initially in the television series The Gene Autry Show, where he made at least eleven appearances. He then appeared in the action and adventure television series Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. He made over 200 appearances in the American western television series Gunsmoke, in which he also served as the double for Milburn Stone as Doc. He made numerous appearances in the television programs Bonanza, Tales of Wells Fargo, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days, The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, The Deputy, Tombstone Territory and Johnny Ringo. He also made at least 140 appearances in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
Personal life and death
Noel married DeLories Ziegfeld on November 7, 1933, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite news |last1=Abrams |first1=Norma |title=Mother-in-law budgeted kisses, hubby's lament |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112346726/jimmy-noel/ |access-date=November 1, 2022 |work=Daily News |date=December 15, 1934 |location=New York, New York City |page=3|via = Newspapers.com}} He was also married to Dawn Hope. That marriage ended with her death in 1939.{{cite news |title=Suicide's Daughter Is a Suicide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112347259/the-durham-sun/ |access-date=November 1, 2022 |work=The Durham Sun |date=July 21, 1939 |page=10|via = Newspapers.com}}
Noel died on January 31, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 81.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|3732931}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jimmy_noel Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:People from Haverhill, Massachusetts
Category:Musicians from Haverhill, Massachusetts
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
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Category:Western (genre) television actors
Category:American stunt performers
Category:American male guitarists
Category:20th-century American guitarists