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Barton Yarborough

 
Actor: Barton Yarborough
  • Born: Oct 02, 1901 in Texas
  • Died: Dec 19, 1951 in Hollywood, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '40s
  • Major Genres: Crime, Mystery
  • Career Highlights: Dragnet, I Love a Mystery, The Devil's Mask
  • First Major Screen Credit: I Love a Mystery (1945)

Biography

Often seen with a cigarette dangling from his tight lips, Texas-born Barton Yarborough became a constant presence in gangster melodramas of the 1940s. In films from 1941, Yarborough also played Dr. Kettering, the monster's first victim in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), and a private detective Doc Long, in the I Love a Mystery thriller The Devil's Mask (1946). Yarborough ended his career playing Sgt. Ben Romero in the first (1951) season of television's Dragnet. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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Cast of radio's One Man's Family, clockwise from lower left: Jack (Billy Page), Clifford (Barton Yarborough), Mrs. Barbour (Minetta Ellen), Claudia (Kathleen Wilson), Paul (Michael Rafetto), Hazel (Bernice Berwin), Mr. Barbour (J. Anthony Smythe).
Barton Yarborough
Born William Barton Yarborough
October 2, 1900(1900-10-02)
Goldthwaite, Texas
USA
Died December 19, 1951 (aged 51)
Pasadena, California
USA
Years active 1920s-1951
Spouse(s) Barbara Jo Allen
(? - 1931)

William Barton Yarborough (October 2, 1900–December 19, 1951) was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.

As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s. In 1932 he began a long run as Clifford Barbour One Man's Family, continuing in the role throughout his life. While on this series in the late 1930s, he met and married the actress Barbara Jo Allen, famed during the 1940s as Vera Vague on The Bob Hope Show.

Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long on Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery and Sergeant Ben Romero on Dragnet.

Yarborough's other radio work includes the role of Skip Turner in Adventures by Morse, also by Carlton E. Morse. [1]

Yarborough appeared as Doc Long in three movies based on the radio series I Love a Mystery: the feature films I Love a Mystery, The Devil's Mask, and The Unknown. He started work on the Dragnet television series in 1951. However, the day after he filmed the second episode, he suffered a heart attack and died four days later at age 51.

On Dragnet, the character of Ben Romero was replaced by Officer Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and on One Man's Family the character of Cliff Barbour, heard for 19 years, was dropped from the storyline.

References

  1. ^ Terrace, Vincent. Radio Programs, 1924-1984:A Catalog of Over 1800 Shows. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0351-9. 

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