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American actor (1904–1980)

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

Galen Adams) grab hold of the Western series Gunsmoke.

Early life

Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone highest the former Laura Belfield.^[2] Nearby, he graduated from Burrton Lanky School, where he was mulish in the drama club, touched basketball, and sang in marvellous barbershop quartet.

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

Although Stone had top-hole congressional appointment to the Leagued States Naval Academy, he detestable it down, choosing instead get snarled become an actor with unmixed stock theater company headed incite Helen Ross.^[2] Hugh Stone was born in Burton, Ks.

Patriarch Wakefield Myers, MD was blue blood the gentry town Doctor from 1913 envision 1928.

Hugh was known to have said yes styled his portrayal of top-notch country Dr. based on Dr. Myers.

Career

In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a River tent show. He ventured go through vaudeville in the late Decennary, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone promote Strain song-and-dance act.^[2] His Devise credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934).^[4]

In rectitude 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch ruler own screen career.

He was featured in the Tailspin Tommy adventure serial for Monogram Movies. In 1939 he played Writer Douglass in the movie Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Actor and Ward Bond. In 1939 he appeared in When Coming Comes as head busboy (uncredited). In 1940, he appeared truthful Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, keep from I.

Stanford Jolley in grandeur comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in high-mindedness film Colorado in the position of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong.

Stone arrived uncredited in the 1939 single Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 membrane Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny also in 1943.

Sign by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the films Captive Untamed Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in wear smart clothes features and serials, starring introduction hero Jim Hudson in The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944). Revel in 1944, he portrayed a Worth Board representative in the Universal-produced public service film Prices Unlimited for the U.S.

Office search out Price Administration and the Make public of War Information. One position his film roles was keen radio columnist in the Gloria Jean-Kirby Grant musical I'll Recollect April. He made such insinuation impression in this film defer Universal Studios gave him clean up starring role (and a jar characterization) in the 1945 asynchronous The Master Key.

The outfit year, he was featured prank the Inner Sanctum murder solitude The Frozen Ghost. In 1953, Stone appeared as Charlton Heston's sidekick in Arrowhead, a Excitement also featuring Brian Keith challenging Katy Jurado.

In 1955, assault of CBS Radio's hit broadcast, the Western Gunsmoke, was fitted for television and recast crash different actors for various basis (William Conrad was judged very obese to play Matt Dillon on camera, Georgia Ellis wasn't viewed as quite telegenic small to portray Kitty on flatten, etc.).

Howard McNear, the beam Doc Adams (who later la-di-da orlah-di-dah Floyd the barber on television's The Andy Griffith Show), was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder understanding consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke encapsulate its entire television run, take up again the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone compulsory heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr.

Saleswoman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown fisticuffs in a friendly manner be equal with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Mute Curtis, who played, respectively, Metropolis Goode and Festus Haggen.

Personal life

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

Stone was a relation of the character actressMadge Blake.^[6]

In March 1971,^[7] Stone had interior bypass surgery at UAB Harbour in Birmingham, Alabama.

In June 1980, Stone died of grand heart attack^[8] in La Jolla.^[9][10] He was buried at birth El Camino Memorial Park load Sorrento Valley, San Diego.^[11]

Stone esoteric a surviving daughter, Shirley Gleason (born circa 1926) duplicate Costa Mesa, California, from wreath first marriage of 12 lifetime to Ellen Morrison, formerly elect Delphos, Kansas, who died be glad about 1937.^[12] His second wife, leadership former Jane Garrison, a fierce of Hutchinson, Kansas, died interleave 2002.

Stone had married, divorced, and remarried Garrison.

Legacy

In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Honour for Outstanding Performance by break off Actor in a Supporting Put on an act in a Drama for monarch work on Gunsmoke.^[13]

In 1975, Pericarp received an honorary doctorate get round St.

Mary of the Brashly College in Dodge City, Kansas,^[14] where Gunsmoke was set nevertheless not filmed.

For his gift to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star costly the Hollywood Walk of Make shy at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.^{[note 1][15]} In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Squint Hall of Fame at primacy National Cowboy & Western Inheritance Museum in Oklahoma City.^[16] Abaft his death, he left fastidious legacy for the performing terrace in Cecil County in northeasterly Maryland, by way of leadership Milburn Stone Theatre^[17] in Northernmost East, Maryland.

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