Petticoat Junction (CBS) Sept. 24, 1963-Apr. 4, 1970 = 222 Episodes
by TheDeadGodfather | created - 29 Jun 2018 | updated - 30 Jun 2018 | PublicThe Complete Cast Information
1. Bea Benaderet
Actress | Petticoat Junction
Bea Benaderet had a remarkable career in radio and television. In the earlier days of radio, before television, she provided the voice for numerous names of characters on the radio, on shows like "Fibber McGee and Molly," "My Favorite Husband" with Lucille Ball & "The Jack Benny Show. She was born ...
Beatrice Benaderet April 4, 1906 in New York City - October 13, 1968 (age 62) in Los Angeles, California (left lung carcinoma) Kate Bradley (1963-1968)
2. Edgar Buchanan
Actor | Shane
At the age of seven, he and his family moved to Oregon. After studying at the University of Oregon, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a dentist, graduating from North Pacific Dental College. From 1929 to 1937, he practiced oral surgery in Eugene, Oregon. He then moved his practice to...
William Edgar Buchanan March 20, 1903 in Humansville, Missouri - April 4, 1979 (age 76) in Palm Desert, California (stroke complicated by pneumonia) Uncle Joe Carson (1963-1970)
3. Linda Henning
Actress | Petticoat Junction
The daughter of veteran writer and TV producer Paul Henning and Ruth Henning, Linda originally studied to be a dancer before going into acting. After appearing in an uncredited role as one of the dancers in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), she landed the role of Betty Jo on Petticoat Junction (1963), on ...
Linda Kay Henning September 16, 1944 in Los Angeles, California Betty Jo Bradley (1963-1970)
4. Lori Saunders
Actress | Petticoat Junction
Striking brunette Lori Saunders managed to capitalize on her sunny, daisy-fresh appeal during CBS-TV's famous 1960s "rural age," an era in which the network churned out a connected trio of bucolic hit shows -- The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965). As the ...
Linda Marie Hines October 4, 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri Bobbie Jo Bradley 2 (1965-1970)
5. Pat Woodell
Actress | The Roommates
Pat Woodell was born on July 12, 1944 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Roommates (1973), Petticoat Junction (1963) and The Big Doll House (1971). She was married to Robert Vern McDade and Gary Clarke. She died on September 29, 2015 in Fallbrook, California, USA.
Patricia Joy Woodell July 12, 1944 in Winthrop, Massachusetts - September 29, 2015 (age 71) in Fallbrook, California (cancer) Bobbie Jo Bradley 1 (1963-1965)
6. Meredith MacRae
Actress | Bikini Beach
Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.
Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)...
Meredith Lynn MacRae May 30, 1944 in Houston, Texas - July 14, 2000 (age 56) in Manhattan Beach, California (complications from brain cancer) Billie Jo Bradley 3 (1966-1970)
7. Gunilla Hutton
Actress | Fantasy Island
Gunilla Hutton was born on May 15, 1944 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Fantasy Island (1977), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Burke's Law (1963).
Gunilla Freeman May 15, 1944 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden Billie Jo Bradley 2 (1965-1966)
8. Jeannine Riley
Actress | Electra Glide in Blue
Blonde bombshell Jeannine Brooke Riley was born in Madera, California on October 1, 1940 and started her movie and TV career in 1962 with an unbilled movie part in the Rosalind Russell drama Five Finger Exercise (1962) and roles on the TV shows "Father of the Bride" and "Route 66," not to mention ...
Jeannine Brooke Riley October 1, 1940 in Madera, California Billie Jo Bradley 1 (1963-1965)
9. Mike Minor
Actor | Petticoat Junction
The son of television producer Don Fedderson, Mike Minor was raised in San Francisco and educated at the University High School in Los Angeles and Brown Military Academy in San Diego. At 14, Mike was taking voice lessons when he got his first professional singing gig at the "Ye Little Club in ...
Michael Tone Fedderson December 7, 1940 in San Francisco, California - January 28, 2016 (age 75) in New York City (cancer) Steve Elliott (1966-1970)
10. Frank Cady
Actor | Rear Window
Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on ...
Frank Randolph Cady September 8, 1915 in Susanville, California - June 8, 2012 (age 96) in Wilsonville, Oregon Sam Drucker (1963-1970)
11. Rufe Davis
Actor | Saddlemates
Perhaps best remembered today for the '60s sitcom Petticoat Junction (1963), Rufe Davis had a long and varied career in show business, winding from an Oklahoma farm to the bright lights of New York and ultimately to Hollywood, including stops around the world.
Rufus Eldon Davidson was born in Vinson...
Rufus Davidson December 2, 1908 in Vinson, Oklahoma - December 13, 1974 (age 66) in Torrance, California Floyd Smoot (1963-1968)
12. Smiley Burnette
Actor | Galloping Thunder
Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance". When Westerns became a big draw with sound, the studios were always on the lookout for singing ...
Lester Alvin Burnette March 18, 1911 in Summum, Illinois - February 16, 1967 (age 55) in Encino, Los Angeles, California (leukemia) Charley Pratt (1963-1967)
13. Higgins
Actor | Lassie
The real name of the dog who played the original "Benji" was Higgins, owned and trained by famed animal trainer and breeder Frank Inn. Inn adopted the dog in 1960 from the Burbank Animal Shelter in Burbank, California. He trained the dog, who went on to appear in the television series Petticoat ...
December 12, 1957 - November 11, 1975 (age 17) in Los Angeles, California Dog (1964-1970)
14. June Lockhart
Actress | Lost in Space
Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, the daughter of actors Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart made her professional debut at age eight in a Metropolitan Opera production of "Peter Ibbetson", playing Mimsey in the dream sequence. In the mid-1930s, the Lockharts relocated to ...
June 25, 1925 in New York City Dr. Janet Craig (1968-1970)
15. Charles Lane
Actor | You Can't Take It with You
Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, they didn't come packaged with a more annoying and irksome bow than Charles Lane. Glimpsing even a bent smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one of his many nefarious...
Charles Gerstle Levison January 26, 1905 in San Francisco, California - July 9, 2007 (age 102) in Santa Monica, California *Homer Bedloe (1963-1968)
16. Byron Foulger
Actor | Sullivan's Travels
One of those wonderfully busy character actors whose face is familiar if not his name, mild-mannered actor Byron Foulger began performing with community theater, and stock and repertory companies after graduating from the University of Utah. He met his future wife, character actress Dorothy Adams, ...
Byron Kay Foulger August 27, 1899 in Ogden, Utah - April 4, 1970 (age 70) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (heart condition) *Wendell Gibbs (1968-1969)
17. Elvia Allman
Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Elvia Allman was born on September 19, 1904 in Enochville, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Nutty Professor (1963) and Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977). She was married to Jerome Laveck Bayler, Charles ("C.C.") Pyle and Wesley Benton ...
Elvia Beatrice Allman September 19, 1904 in Enochville, North Carolina - March 6, 1992 (age 87) in Santa Monica, California (pneumonia) *Selma Plout 2 (1965-1970)
18. Virginia Sale
Actress | Topper
Virginia Sale was born on May 20, 1899 in Urbana, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Topper (1937), Registered Nurse (1934) and I Like It That Way (1934). She was married to Sam Wren. She died on August 23, 1992 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
May 20, 1899 in Urbana, Illinois - August 23, 1992 (age 93) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California (heart failure) *Selma Plout 1 (1963-1965)
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