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Sorrell Booke

January 29, 2023

Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows,[1] and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.[2]

Sorrell Booke
Born(1930-01-04)January 4, 1930
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 11, 1994(1994-02-11) (aged 64)
Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Resting placeHillside Memorial Park Cemetery
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Yale University (MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active1939–1993
SpouseMiranda Knickerbocker (1958–1973; divorced)
Children2

Early life and education

Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Sol Booke, a local physician. As a child, he entertained patients in his father's waiting room,[3] and began acting on radio at nine.[1] As a young radio actor he was known for his impersonations. He won a radio contest for mimicking the voice of Adolf Hitler, and appeared regularly as an actor on local radio stations WGR and WEBR. He attended Bennett High School and was valedictorian of the Class of 1946.[4]

Booke enrolled in Columbia University at 16, and performed in Shakespearean plays in Columbia's drama club. He graduated from Columbia at 19 in 1949, and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama.[1][5][6] He served in the United States Army during the Korean War for two years as a counterintelligence officer.[2][7]

Career

After his Army service, Booke appeared off-Broadway in The White Devil and had his first television role in the series Omnibus. His Broadway debut was in 1956, in Michael Redgrave's production of The Sleeping Prince.[3][5] One prominent early role was that of Senator Billboard T. Rawkins in the 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow. He also appeared in the films Black Like Me, A Fine Madness, What's Up, Doc? and Fail-Safe. In 1962, he starred in the Broadway musical Fiorello! as the title character.

Aside from his film roles he appeared on television, among them The Guiding Light and 12 O-Clock High, and he worked as a voice actor in the 1980s and early 1990s. Booke also was a guest conductor at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.[8]

Booke received an Emmy nomination for his appearance in Dr. Kildare in the episode "What's God to Julius?". He appeared in an episode of Mission: Impossible from the first season in 1966. Booke appeared in two early episodes of M*A*S*H, as General Barker in "Requiem for a Lightweight" and "Chief Surgeon Who?"; the latter marked the debut of the character Corporal Klinger, with whom Booke's character had previously dealt. He also had a recurring role in All in the Family as Mr. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie Bunker's workplace, Prendergast Tool and Die Company. (He had previously appeared on All in the Family as Lyle Bennett, the manager of a local television station.) Booke was featured on an episode of Good Times, and had a recurring role as the Jewish mob boss "Lefkowitz" on Soap. He also appeared in two episodes of Columbo, Swan Song in Season 3 (featuring Johnny Cash) and The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case in Season 6. In 1976 he played a record producer in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II.

Booke's most notable role was in The Dukes of Hazzard as Boss Hogg, the humorously wicked antagonist to Bo and Luke Duke. The series ran on CBS for seven seasons, from 1979 to 1985. It spawned an animated series, The Dukes (1983), two reunion TV specials (by which time Booke had died, and the character of Boss Hogg was also said to be deceased), a feature film (2005) and The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (a 2007 TV movie).

Booke had stopped appearing physically in acting roles, but he continued to perform voice work on several television shows and movies, occasionally as narrator, and sometimes as a cartoon character's voice, in such movies as Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987 TV movie), Gravedale High (1990 television series), and Rock-A-Doodle (1991).

Personal life

Booke was 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg) at the time of his Boss Hogg role, and wore padding to seem fatter.[9] He copied the Hogg character's American South drawl from U.S. senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond.[3]

Booke was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, German, Greek and Italian. He said that he also “fussed" with a half-dozen other languages such as Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. One of his hobbies was moving into and restoring rundown houses. In 1981, he lived in a "modest home on a modest street in Los Angeles," where he did his own gardening and carpentry. He called his Boss Hogg character "despicable," but enjoyed meeting with fans of the show.[1][10]

Booke was married to Miranda Knickerbocker, then a senior at Barnard College, in 1958. She was the daughter of journalist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker.[7] They had two children before divorcing in 1973.

Death

On February 11, 1994, Sorrell Booke died of colorectal cancer in Sherman Oaks, California. He is interred at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.[11] He was survived by a brother, two children and four grandchildren.[3][12]

Partial filmography

Television work

Stage appearances

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Cauthorn, Robert S. (February 9, 1984). "Character Actor Sorrell Booke is High on Hogg Despite it All". Arizona Daily Star. p. 8. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Collins, Glenn (February 15, 1994). "Sorrell Booke, A TV Actor, 64; Was Boss Hogg". The New York Times. from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d Oliver, Myrna (February 16, 1994). "Sorrell Booke; TV, Stage and Movie Actor". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  4. ^ Cichon, Steve (March 22, 2019). "The curious acquaintance of John Otto and Boss Hogg". The Buffalo News. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Finally He 'Made It'". The News Leader: TV Book. Staunton, Virginia. November 18, 1979. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Thomas, Vinciguerra (Spring 2014). "Varsity Show Endears and Endures". Columbia College Today. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Miss Knickerbocker Is Wed To Sorrell Booke in Nyack" (PDF). The New York Times. September 7, 1958. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  8. ^ "Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerts, Biography & News". BBC Music. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  9. ^ Whitesell, Phil (January 24, 1980). "It's Sorrell Booke's job to hog all the action". The Tampa Times. Knight-Ridder News Service. p. 18. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Dangaard, Colin (June 28, 1981). "The Private World of Boss Hogg". The Boston Globe: TV Week. p. 2. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Sorrel Booke". Find a Grave. December 31, 2000. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  12. ^ "Obituaries/funeral announcements, Sorrell booke". The Los Angeles Times. February 15, 1994. p. 140. Retrieved July 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

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Sorrell Booke January 4 1930 February 11 1994 was an American actor who performed on stage screen and television He acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows 1 and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis Boss Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard 2 Sorrell BookeBorn 1930 01 04 January 4 1930Buffalo New York U S DiedFebruary 11 1994 1994 02 11 aged 64 Sherman Oaks California U S Resting placeHillside Memorial Park CemeteryEducationColumbia University BA Yale University MFA OccupationActorYears active1939 1993SpouseMiranda Knickerbocker 1958 1973 divorced Children2 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 3 1 Death 4 Partial filmography 5 Television work 6 Stage appearances 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksEarly life and education EditBooke was born in Buffalo New York the son of Sol Booke a local physician As a child he entertained patients in his father s waiting room 3 and began acting on radio at nine 1 As a young radio actor he was known for his impersonations He won a radio contest for mimicking the voice of Adolf Hitler and appeared regularly as an actor on local radio stations WGR and WEBR He attended Bennett High School and was valedictorian of the Class of 1946 4 Booke enrolled in Columbia University at 16 and performed in Shakespearean plays in Columbia s drama club He graduated from Columbia at 19 in 1949 and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama 1 5 6 He served in the United States Army during the Korean War for two years as a counterintelligence officer 2 7 Career EditAfter his Army service Booke appeared off Broadway in The White Devil and had his first television role in the series Omnibus His Broadway debut was in 1956 in Michael Redgrave s production of The Sleeping Prince 3 5 One prominent early role was that of Senator Billboard T Rawkins in the 1960 revival of Finian s Rainbow He also appeared in the films Black Like Me A Fine Madness What s Up Doc and Fail Safe In 1962 he starred in the Broadway musical Fiorello as the title character Aside from his film roles he appeared on television among them The Guiding Light and 12 O Clock High and he worked as a voice actor in the 1980s and early 1990s Booke also was a guest conductor at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra 8 Booke received an Emmy nomination for his appearance in Dr Kildare in the episode What s God to Julius He appeared in an episode of Mission Impossible from the first season in 1966 Booke appeared in two early episodes of M A S H as General Barker in Requiem for a Lightweight and Chief Surgeon Who the latter marked the debut of the character Corporal Klinger with whom Booke s character had previously dealt He also had a recurring role in All in the Family as Mr Sanders personnel manager at Archie Bunker s workplace Prendergast Tool and Die Company He had previously appeared on All in the Family as Lyle Bennett the manager of a local television station Booke was featured on an episode of Good Times and had a recurring role as the Jewish mob boss Lefkowitz on Soap He also appeared in two episodes of Columbo Swan Song in Season 3 featuring Johnny Cash and The Bye Bye Sky High I Q Murder Case in Season 6 In 1976 he played a record producer in Rich Man Poor Man Book II Booke s most notable role was in The Dukes of Hazzard as Boss Hogg the humorously wicked antagonist to Bo and Luke Duke The series ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1979 to 1985 It spawned an animated series The Dukes 1983 two reunion TV specials by which time Booke had died and the character of Boss Hogg was also said to be deceased a feature film 2005 and The Dukes of Hazzard The Beginning a 2007 TV movie Booke had stopped appearing physically in acting roles but he continued to perform voice work on several television shows and movies occasionally as narrator and sometimes as a cartoon character s voice in such movies as Scooby Doo Meets the Boo Brothers 1987 TV movie Gravedale High 1990 television series and Rock A Doodle 1991 Personal life EditBooke was 5 ft 6 in 1 68 m tall and weighed 185 pounds 84 kg at the time of his Boss Hogg role and wore padding to seem fatter 9 He copied the Hogg character s American South drawl from U S senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond 3 Booke was fluent in French Latin Japanese Korean Spanish Portuguese Russian Ukrainian Belorussian German Greek and Italian He said that he also fussed with a half dozen other languages such as Arabic Mandarin Chinese Dutch Persian Polish and Swedish One of his hobbies was moving into and restoring rundown houses In 1981 he lived in a modest home on a modest street in Los Angeles where he did his own gardening and carpentry He called his Boss Hogg character despicable but enjoyed meeting with fans of the show 1 10 Booke was married to Miranda Knickerbocker then a senior at Barnard College in 1958 She was the daughter of journalist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker 7 They had two children before divorcing in 1973 Death Edit On February 11 1994 Sorrell Booke died of colorectal cancer in Sherman Oaks California He is interred at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City California 11 He was survived by a brother two children and four grandchildren 3 12 Partial filmography EditGone Are the Days 1963 as Ol Cap Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee Black Like Me 1964 as Dr Jackson Les Felins 1964 as Harry Fail Safe 1964 as Congressman Raskob A Fine Madness 1966 as Leonard Tupperman Up the Down Staircase 1967 as Dr Bester Matchless 1967 as Colonel Coolpepper The Borgia Stick 1967 as Alton Bye Bye Braverman 1968 as Holly Levine What s Up Doc 1972 as Harry Slaughterhouse Five 1972 as Lionel Merble The Iceman Cometh 1973 as Hugo Kalmar The Take 1974 as Oscar Devil Times Five 1974 as Harvey Beckman Bank Shot 1974 as Al G Karp The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery 1975 as Dr Melon Mastermind 1976 as Max Engstrom Special Delivery 1976 as Hubert Zane Freaky Friday 1976 as Mr Dilk The Other Side of Midnight 1977 as Lanchon Record City 1978 as Coznowski The Cat from Outer Space 1978 as Presiding Judge uncredited Rock a Doodle 1991 as Pinky the Manager voice Television work EditThe Guiding Light 1952 Brenner 1959 The Iceman Cometh 1960 The Million Dollar Incident 1961 Car 54 Where Are You as Police Commissioner Harper in How High Is Up 1962 Route 66 as Sam Frazier in Voice at the End of the Line 1962 Naked City Beyond This Place There Be Dragons 9 episodes 1960 1963 The Patty Duke Show as Gilbert Tugwell in Block That Statue 1964 Twelve O Clock High as Sgt Aronson in Faith Hope and Sgt Aronson 1965 Slattery s People as Max Rice in Question What s a Swan Song for a Sparrow 1965 New York Television Theatre 1965 T H E Cat Episode 1 1966 Mission Impossible 1967 The Borgia Stick 1967 Ironside Shell Game 1968 The Wild Wild West as Heisel in The Night of the Egyptian Queen 1968 Hawaii Five O The Double Wall 1970 Room 222 one episode 1971 as Mr Bomberg All in the Family 1972 1977 as Joseph Sanders 4 episodes Mr Bennett Owen Marshall Counsellor at Law 1971 M A S H 2 episodes 1972 as Gen Wilson Spaulding Barker The Manhunter 1972 Gunshot 1972 Gunsmoke in Milligan 1972 as Gerald Pandy Alias Smith and Jones 1972 Adventures of Nick Carter 1972 Dr Max 1974 as Dr Scott Herndon The Last Angry Man 1974 as Dr Max Vogel The New Dick Van Dyke Show 1974 as Herbie Vincent Otto Cannon 1974 Columbo Swan Song 1974 as J J Stringer Kolchak The Night Stalker 1974 as Mr Eddy Kung Fu in A Dream Within a Dream 1974 as Sheriff Hodges Adventures of the Queen 1975 as Robert Dwight The Streets of San Francisco 1975 as Quincy Lloyd Rich Man Poor Man Book II 1976 5 episodes as Phil Greenberg Brenda Starr 1976 as A J Livwright The Bob Newhart Show 1976 as Mr Perlmutter Hunter episode The Lovejoy Files 1977 as Mervyn Black Sheep Squadron Episode Poor Little Lambs 1977 as Father Phillipe Mary Hartman Mary Hartman 1977 as Rabbi Weintraub The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened 1977 as Samuelson The Amazing Howard Hughes 1977 as Fiorello LaGuardia Columbo The Bye Bye Sky High I Q Murder Case 1977 as Bertie Hastings Greatest Heroes of the Bible 1978 Soap 1978 as Charles Lefkowitz Good Times 1978 as Mr Galbraith Little House on the Prairie 1978 What s Happening 1978 as Mr Finley The Rockford Files The Jersey Bounce 1978 as Wade G Ward Bigfoot and Wildboy 1979 The Dukes of Hazzard 1979 1985 as Boss Hogg Jefferson Davis Hogg The Love Boat 1980 as Lucius Kergo The Smurfs 1981 voice The Dukes 1983 as Jefferson Davis Boss Hogg voice Alice 1983 as Jefferson Davis Boss Hogg The Pound Puppies 1985 as Mayor Fist aka The Mayor voice Newhart 1985 as Sheik Fraser Crazy Like a Fox 1986 as Bernard Bernie Sinclair You Again 1986 as Roger Davidson Scooby Doo Meets the Boo Brothers 1987 as Sheriff Rufus Buzby T J Buzby voice Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears 1988 as Mountain Bear voice Full House Episode Our Very First Christmas Show 1988 as Lionel Santa Claus Fantastic Max 1988 voice Don Coyote amp Sancho Panda 1990 voice Tom and Jerry Kids Show 1990 as Announcer voice Gravedale High 1990 voice Civil Wars 1991 as Charles Previn Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation 1992 as Big Daddy Boo voice Capitol Critters 1992 voice Bonkers 1993 as Boss Hoss voice The New Adventures of Captain Planet 1993 as Sheriff Hebbs voice Droopy Master Detective voice 1993 Stage appearances EditThe Sleeping Prince 1956 Nature s Way 1957 Heartbreak House 1959 Fiorello 1959 61 replacement Finian s Rainbow 1960 Caligula 1960 Purlie Victorious 1961 62 The White House 1964 Jonah 1966 The Iceman Cometh 1966 Come Live with Me 1967 Morning Noon and Night 1968 See also Edit Biography portal New York state portal California portal Theatre portal Film portal Television portalReferences Edit a b c d Cauthorn Robert S February 9 1984 Character Actor Sorrell Booke is High on Hogg Despite it All Arizona Daily Star p 8 Retrieved June 21 2020 via Newspapers com a b Collins Glenn February 15 1994 Sorrell Booke A TV Actor 64 Was Boss Hogg The New York Times Archived from the original on May 13 2013 Retrieved January 31 2011 a b c d Oliver Myrna February 16 1994 Sorrell Booke TV Stage and Movie Actor Los Angeles Times Retrieved June 21 2020 Cichon Steve March 22 2019 The curious acquaintance of John Otto and Boss Hogg The Buffalo News Retrieved March 22 2019 a b Finally He Made It The News Leader TV Book Staunton Virginia November 18 1979 p 10 via Newspapers com Thomas Vinciguerra Spring 2014 Varsity Show Endears and Endures Columbia College Today Retrieved August 1 2020 a b Miss Knickerbocker Is Wed To Sorrell Booke in Nyack PDF The New York Times September 7 1958 Retrieved June 21 2020 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Concerts Biography amp News BBC Music Retrieved June 21 2020 Whitesell Phil January 24 1980 It s Sorrell Booke s job to hog all the action The Tampa Times Knight Ridder News Service p 18 Retrieved June 21 2020 via Newspapers com Dangaard Colin June 28 1981 The Private World of Boss Hogg The Boston Globe TV Week p 2 Retrieved June 21 2020 via Newspapers com Sorrel Booke Find a Grave December 31 2000 Retrieved July 15 2020 Obituaries funeral announcements Sorrell booke The Los Angeles Times February 15 1994 p 140 Retrieved July 21 2020 via Newspapers com External links EditSorrell Booke at IMDb Sorrell Booke at the TCM Movie Database Sorrell Booke at AllMovie Sorrell Booke at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sorrell Booke amp oldid 1131636230, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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