Lou Frizzell

{{short description|American actor and music director}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Lou Frizzell on the set of Bonanza c. 1970.png

| caption = Lou Frizzell c. 1970 on Bonanza

| name = Lou Frizzell

| birth_name = Louis Francis Frizzell Jr.

| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|6|10}}

| birth_place = Missouri, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|6|17|1920|6|10}}

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

| resting_place =

| occupation = Actor, music director

| yearsactive = 1955–1979

}}

Lou Frizzell (June 10, 1920 – June 17, 1979){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRQbAQAAIAAJ|title=Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies|pages=193–194|first=Jack|last=Ward|publisher=McFarland|date=1993|isbn=9780899508078|via=Google Books}} was an American actor and music director who worked on Broadway productions, television shows and films. He was perhaps best known for playing Dusty Rhodes in the American western television series Bonanza.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltUkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1951|title=Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary|page=177|first=Everett|last=Aaker|publisher=McFarland|date=May 25, 2017|isbn=9781476662503|via=Google Books}} Frizzell died in June 1979 of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 59.{{Citation|title=John Willis' Theatre World: Volume 36|page=144|publisher=Crown Publishers|work=University of Michigan|first=John|last=Willis|date=1981}}