Happy birthday, Robert Osborne!

While Hollywood celebrities are not this blog's shtick, I love old movies, and I dearly love the TCM channel. (It's the only TV channel I like, and if it didn't exist, I'd dump cable.) As it happens, yesterday was the 77th birthday of Robert Osborne, host of TCM Classics. The guy is always so crammed full of knowledge about old movies that he's really a national asset. Seriously, I often find the "little known facts" he rattles off to be more fascinating than some of the movies he's introducing.

Anyway, to help celebrate his birthday, here's a little known fact about Robert Osborne. Early in his career, he used to play occasional bit parts, and in the original 1962 pilot which launched The Beverly Hillbillies, he played Milburn Drysdale's assistant "Jeff Taylor" who had been charged with the purchase of the Clampett home right next door to the Drysdales. (He's listed as "Bob Osborne" in the credits, and he appears in the office about 20 seconds into the following video).

Enjoy!

posted by Eric on 05.04.09 at 07:05 PM





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Thanks for the clip! I don't know that I'd have recognized his face, but that walk and sort of slouch he had, he still has.
John

John   ·  May 6, 2009 10:19 AM

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