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Posted on 07/25/2018 5:41:22 PM PDT by eastforker
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Sorry folks, this is all I could find on Ken Curtis Military service.
To: eastforker
His character, Festus, on Gunsmoke sounds exactly like my relation in St. Joe and Allendale Missouri.
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posted on
07/25/2018 5:45:26 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: eastforker
May we assume he did not drive a mule team?
To: DeFault User
Festus is one my all-time favorite TV characters. Curtis reportedly made the character up by himself as a composite of friends and relatives from his youth.
To: eastforker
He played a parachutist for hire in the TV series “Ripcord” too.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:11:13 PM PDT
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pfflier
To: eastforker
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:11:36 PM PDT
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Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: eastforker
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:13:54 PM PDT
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crz
To: eastforker
He played Dolan in the movie “Mr Roberts”.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:19:52 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: crz
He was with the “Sons Of The Pioneers” along with Roy Rogers.
They were a very good singing group.
I saw him in an episode of “Perry Mason”. He portrayed a circus clown who was pretty much of an opposite of Festus. I also saw him in an old, unremembered movie in which he pretty much was the same character as Festus.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:23:45 PM PDT
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yarddog
To: yarddog
I am headed off to youtube to watch some of them.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:26:00 PM PDT
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crz
To: yarddog
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:36:44 PM PDT
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crz
To: yarddog
He was in the John Wayne movie “The Searchers” of which Harry Carry said was one of Wayne’s greatest movies.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:54:49 PM PDT
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crz
To: crz
The Duke and Curtis were life long friends
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:57:32 PM PDT
by
advertising guy
(The manliest man Obama knows is married to him.)
To: advertising guy
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posted on
07/25/2018 7:07:58 PM PDT
by
crz
To: eastforker
He directed “The Giant Gila Monster” and starred and directed in “The Killer Shrews”.
MST3k fans will relate.
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posted on
07/25/2018 8:07:23 PM PDT
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: eastforker
He directed “The Giant Gila Monster” and starred and directed in “The Killer Shrews”.
MST3k fans will relate.
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07/25/2018 8:07:24 PM PDT
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
The Giant Gila monster was great for a low-budget film. It had cool hotrod cars and cool teen lingo.
One of his albums was called FESTUS SINGS AND TALKS ABOUT DODGE CITY AND OTHER STUFF. It is a collector’s item.
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posted on
07/25/2018 8:20:47 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
To: eastforker
His first appearance on Gunsmoke was in an episode named “the Lady Killer” as I recall. His character was an evil seducer of women.
To: eastforker
I mostly remember Ken Curtis as a member of John Ford’s stock company. He turns up in just about every post-war Ford flick. Not a leading man but a great second-tier actor. And of course Gunsmoke.
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posted on
07/26/2018 2:00:25 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: mountaineer1997
He also appeared as a Texas trail boss concerned about jayhawkers attacking his trail hands.
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posted on
07/26/2018 2:14:48 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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