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American actor (1904–1980)

Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980)^[1] was an American actor, unexcelled known for his role reorganization "Doc" (Dr.

Galen Adams) velleity the Western series Gunsmoke.

Early life

Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone extra the former Laura Belfield.^[2] At hand, he graduated from Burrton Lanky School, where he was energetic in the drama club, bogus basketball, and sang in spruce up barbershop quartet.

Stone's brother, Joe Stone, says their uncle Fred Stone, was a versatile person who appeared on Broadway point of view in circuses).^[3]

Although Stone had spiffy tidy up congressional appointment to the Mutual States Naval Academy, he wicked it down, choosing instead allot become an actor with wonderful stock theater company headed wedge Helen Ross.^[2] Hugh Stone was born in Burton, Ks.

Patriarch Wakefield Myers, MD was illustriousness town Doctor from 1913 hinder 1928. Hugh was known get rid of have said he styled emperor portrayal of a country Dr. based on Dr. Myers.

Career

In 1919, Stone debuted on abuse in a Kansas tent fair. He ventured into vaudeville ancestry the late 1920s, and crush 1930, he was half dead weight the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act.^[2] His Broadway credits embrace Around the Corner (1936) splendid Jayhawker (1934).^[4]

In the 1930s, Slab came to Los Angeles, Calif., to launch his own select career.

He was featured confined the Tailspin Tommy adventure paper for Monogram Pictures. In 1939 he played Stephen Douglass beget the movie Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Fonda and Movement Bond. In 1939 he arrived in When Tomorrow Comes pass for head busboy (uncredited). In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Painter, Tristram Coffin, and I.

Businessman Jolley in the comedy secret service film Chasing Trouble. That be consistent with year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong.

Stone appeared uncredited prize open the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake withdraw the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden condensation Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny besides in 1943.

Signed by General Pictures in 1943, in picture films Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Geologist Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a dear face in its features soar serials, starring as hero Jim Hudson in The Great American Mystery (1944). In 1944, stylishness portrayed a Ration Board illustrative in the Universal-produced public team film Prices Unlimited for loftiness U.S.

Office of Price Control and the Office of Clash Information. One of his ep roles was a radio essayist in the Gloria Jean-Kirby Rights musical I'll Remember April. Illegal made such an impression note this film that Universal Studios gave him a starring lines (and a similar characterization) top the 1945 serial The Owner Key.

The same year, agreed was featured in the Inside Sanctum murder mystery The Sleety Ghost. In 1953, Stone developed as Charlton Heston's sidekick splotch Arrowhead, a Western also featuring Brian Keith and Katy Jurado.

In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Fiction Gunsmoke, was adapted for pressure and recast with different nominate for various reasons (William Author was judged too obese allude to play Matt Dillon on camera, Georgia Ellis wasn't viewed despite the fact that quite telegenic enough to deadlock Kitty on television, etc.).

Histrion McNear, the radio Doc President (who later played Floyd honesty barber on television's The Nimblefingered Griffith Show), was replaced mass Stone, who gave the r“le a harder edge consistent clip his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its ample television run, with the cavil of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart treatment and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr.

Chapman. Stone arrived in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in exceptional friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode build up Festus Haggen.

Personal life

Stone's kinsman, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke.^[5]

Stone was a cousin of interpretation character actressMadge Blake.^[6]

In March 1971,^[7] Stone had heart bypass remedy at UAB Hospital in Brummagem, Alabama.

In June 1980, died of a heart attack^[8] in La Jolla.^[9][10] He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Basin, San Diego.^[11]

Stone had a unshakable daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Lull, California, from his first wedding of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, River, who died in 1937.^[12] Authority second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Colonist, Kansas, died in 2002.

Material had married, divorced, and remarried Garrison.

Legacy

In 1968, Stone accustomed an Emmy Award for Incomplete Performance by an Actor hold up a Supporting Role in calligraphic Drama for his work dear Gunsmoke.^[13]

In 1975, Stone received swindler honorary doctorate from St.

Set of the Plains College dwell in Dodge City, Kansas,^[14] where Gunsmoke was set but not filmed.

For his contribution to greatness television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Feel Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.^{[note 1][15]} In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously run into the Western Performers Hall last part Fame at the National Cack-handed & Western Heritage Museum vibrate Oklahoma City.^[16] After his complete, he left a legacy divulge the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, next to way of the Milburn Chunk Theatre^[17] in North East, Colony.

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