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Eddie Firestone | |
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![]() Firestone in The Untouchables (1959) | |
Born | December 11, 1920 |
Died | March 1, 2007 86) | (aged
Resting place | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Eddie Firestone Jr. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1932–1990 |
Eddie Firestone (December 11, 1920 – March 1, 2007), sometimes known as Eddie Firestone Jr., was an American radio, television, and film actor who accumulated over 200 total credits during his performing career.
He played the wino who was kidnapped in Hawaii 5-0 Season 2, Episode 13 "The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild."
When he was 12, Firestone, along with Harold Peary, was in the cast of Wheatenaville , a program broadcast on NBC's Pacific network beginning September 26, 1932. [1]
An early success was in the title role of radio's That Brewster Boy . [2] While doing that program, he also was an undergraduate student at Northwestern University. [3] He left the program during World War II to join the United States Marine Corps in 1943, where he was commissioned, reaching the rank of captain, remaining in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1957.[ citation needed ]
Some of the first television appearances with Firestone was in the first season of Jack Webb's Dragnet (1951–52). He guest-starred in "The Big Lamp" in Season 1, Episode 14 on Dragnet , in Season 1, Episode 3 of The Dick Van Dyke Show he played Tom Edson in "Sally and the lab technician". He wore a suit, bowtie, was clean shaven, had big round glasses and played a girl-shy, nerdy lab technician that works up his nerve to take Sally on a date. He was cast in a 1961 episode of "The Charity Drive" of Window on Main Street . Firestone appeared in several roles on the popular Western television series Bonanza , Hogan's Heroes , as well as in Walt Disney's feature film The Great Locomotive Chase . He also appeared on Perry Mason ("The Case of the "Dodging Domino", 1962; "The Case of the Decadent Dean", 1963; "The Case of a Place Called Midnight", 1964). He appeared in Barnaby Jones , in the 1975 episode "Trap Play". In 1967, he appeared in the only two part episode of Gunsmoke , entitled "Nitro". He returned to Gunsmoke in 1974 in the episode "The Tarnished Badge". He also guest-starred in "Prosecutor", the 1970 debut of The Silent Force . He guest starred in three episodes of The Rockford Files . He also appeared in the last episode of Logan's Run titled "Stargate" in 1978.
Firestone is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. [4]
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Demetria Fulton; previewed Firestone on Barnaby Jones in the episode titled “Trap Play”(01/07/1975).