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To: lowbridge
Nope, none of those Danny Lees are me. Not to blow my own horn... but you asked.

Actually, let me make that pant my little fife.

In the 1960's & 70's I had bit parts in Fabian's A Bullet for Pretty Boy and John Agar's Hell's Raiders (While on furlough, I might add.) both done by Larry Buchanan. He was a dear man who die recently.

In '71 I had a great little part in Corky starring Bobbie Blake way before he started killing wives. Blake liked to play Liar's Poker with the grips, but they always won. They were better bluffers, imagine that! I later found they cut me, replacing me with another guy because I looked too innocent. Hell, I could have played it mean if they asked. But they didn't.

I went to Hollywood and auditioned for Wild Rovers and had the delight of having Julie Andrews tell me I wasn't ugly enough for the part of Karl Malden's son. Tom Skerritt got the part.

I had a walk-on in Henry Fonda's TV series "The Smith Family" and over the next few years seven or eight TV pilots that never sold. Randy Quaid and I were cast in The Houston Policeman yet as filming got underway, the money backer pulled out. What footage we did ended up a Houston Police Department training film. Randy went on to The Last Detail and an Oscar nomination. I went back to Dallas and starred in a play I wrote. It ran two weeks.

I have done a ton of Industrial Films. One I did for LTV in Dallas in 1973 is still running in some factory somewhere. About 10 years ago a guy asked me if my son ever did a Industrial called "The Death of Attention." No, I said, that was me.

I also did a bunch of TV Commercials. From 1974-1978 I was the "Fuzzy Yellow Slippers Man" for Texas Commerce Bank. An American Express spot I did ran national for a year and earned me $25,000 in 1970's money.

I missed a few I am sure, but that shows what chasing gals, smoking & drinking to a ripe old age can get for you. I haven't acted in several years due to my poor health, but I can still write.

Well, I hope I haven't put you to sleep. If so, pleasant dreams...

53 posted on 02/27/2005 6:41:43 PM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
In the 1960's & 70's I had bit parts in Fabian's A Bullet for Pretty Boy and John Agar's Hell's Raiders

You ought to go to IMDB and add your name there. Yp as many movies that you can remember. You're a member of SAG and you're not listed in the IMDB. I'm not SAG, and I am listed on IMDB. There's something wrong with that. :-)

81 posted on 02/27/2005 11:40:23 PM PST by lowbridge
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