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  Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke was a very brilliant man. He taught himself five languages including Japanese and Russian.
Sorrell was born in Buffalo, New York on January 4, 1930.
When Sorrell was a young boy, he would send for all the scripts to radio shows he could get his hands on.
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  Sorrell Booke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
Born in Buffalo, New York, and fluent in five languages including Japanese, Sorrell (rhymes with "moral") Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer.
Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me, A Fine Madness and Fail-Safe before focusing primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s.
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 FYE
The son of a Buffalo physician, Sorrell Booke was encouraged from an early age to entertain his relatives with jokes, songs, and imitations.
For all his greyed-up character parts, Booke's most fondly remembered role of the early '60s was the mentally retarded brother of Martin Balsam in an episode of TV's Dr.
Sorrell Booke's last film assignment was a typically blustery voice-over in the animated feature Rock-a-Doodle; he died of cancer in 1994, just one month after his 64th birthday.
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Sorrel graduated high school at the age of 16; he went on to receive his bachelors from Columbia and his masters from Yale.
Though he is quite wealthy, Booke drives a small station wagon and lives alone in a small house in San Fernando Valley, which he is currently remodeling.
Sorrel passed away in 1994 at the age of 64 from colon cancer.
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 Sorrell Booke - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - The New York Times
From All Movie Guide: The son of a Buffalo physician, Sorrell Booke was encouraged from an early age to entertain his relatives with jokes, songs, and imitations.
For all his greyed-up character parts, Booke's most fondly remembered role of the early '60s was the mentally retarded brother of Martin Balsam in an episode of TV's Dr. Kildare.
But neither subtlety nor sensitivity were required for Booke's signature role: the lovably larcenous Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg on the weekly adventure series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985).
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 Sorrell Booke
An inveterate radio fan, young Booke would send away to the major networks for copies of scripts, then act out all the parts -- a different voice for each character -- in the privacy of his room.
For all his greyed-up character parts, Booke's most fondly remembered role of the early '60s was the mentally retarded brother of Martin Balsam in an episode of TV's Dr. Kildare.
Sorrell Booke's last film assignment was a typically blustery voice-over in the animated feature Rock-a-Doodle; he died of cancer in 1994, just one month after his 64th birthday.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P++7341   (278 words)

  
 Sorrell Booke, A TV Actor, 64; Was Boss Hogg - New York Times
Sorrell Booke, a film, television and stage actor whose best-known role was that of Boss Hogg, the flamboyant, bumbling mayor in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard," died on Friday at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 64.
Booke began his acting career there at the age of 9 in local radio programs, where he made a specialty of playing aged gentlemen.
Booke's marriage, to the former Miranda Knickerbocker, ended in divorce.
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 Sorrell Booke - TV.com
Sorrell graduated from high school when he was only 16.
Sorrell was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Sorrell is buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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 Sorrell Booke
Stubby and almost bald, Sorrell (rhymes with moral) Booke is a quiet, modest, erudite man who taught himself five languages and speaks none of them with an accent, Southern or otherwise.
But put him into that white suite, pad his waist to 52 inches with foam rubber, and Sorrell Booke is transformed into the quintessential comic villain.
Booke admits he jumped at the chance to play in a series.
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 Sorrell Booke - Moviefone
The son of a Buffalo physician, Sorrell Booke was encouraged from an early age to entertain his relatives with jokes, songs, and imitations.
Sorrell Booke on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Sorrell Booke - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Sorrell Booke Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 boss hogg
if you have any sorrell booke info, pictures, quotes..anything at all and would like to see them on the page please email me i would also like to hear from any other boss hogg fans..i know i can't be the only one.
The actor Sorrell Booke died on February 11th 1994 of colon cancer.
Sorrell started out in radio playing multiple parts due to his love of dialects.
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 DUKES OF HAZZARD: COMPLETE SEASONS 1-7 (38PC) - DVD
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) takes advantage of this "tragedy" by claiming that Bo and Luke had stolen his watch before their untimely demise--all the while keeping the timepiece locked in his own safe so he can collect the insurance.
Making the wedding arrangements, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is careful not to invite the Dukes to the ceremony, the better to frame Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) for the robbery of his own bank that Boss has planned for the afternoon.
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) schemes to take advantage of Daisy's new-found journalistic status by arranging for her to take a photograph which, with a few alterations, will frame her cousins Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) for a series of tractor thefts that have actually been pulled off by Boss' flunkies.
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Jefferson Davis Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is a corrupt local political bigwig who has long had it in for the Duke boys, as well as their moonshine-brewing Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) and their sexy cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach).
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is also after Jesse, but his concerns don't really involve protecting the law -- Hogg also wants to enter the contest, and wants to seize as much of Jesse's mixture as he can, convinced the elder Duke is a shoo-in to win.
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) finds one of his old schemes has come back to haunt him when Neil Bishop (Fred McCarren), who was cheated by Hogg years before, robs him while Hogg is counting the take from a moonshining operation.
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 Password Plus week with Sorrell Booke and Irlene Mandrell - GSN Buzz
Usually the celebrities are holding hands and have some sort of "chemistry." Mandrell and Booke seemed awkward when coming on stage and they didn't hold hands.
Sorrell spent half of his thinking time in nearly every game going "Uhh, uhh, uhh, uhh...", and then he would often give a clue that required a huge mental leap for his partner to get the answer.
Sorrell Booke also did MGHS in 1984 and Irlene Mandrell did MG before it went off the air.
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 Sorrell Booke - Biography
Sorrell Booke was born in Buffalo New York in in 1930, the son of a local physician.
His intelligence and subtlety are often overlooked when considering his signature role as Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg during his run on "The Dukes of Hazzard"; (1979).
He recounts that in one episode, Booke and guest star Andrew Robinson, whom also spoke Japanese, played a trick on James Best (Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltrane) where they spoke all of their dialog in a scene in Japanese, thus leaving Best confused.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0095368/bio   (382 words)

  
 CMT.com : Waylon Jennings   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Boss Hogg (SORRELL BOOKE) almost loses $100,000 when three con men try to convince him that his bank is responsible for the theft of their precious sh...
Boss (SORRELL BOOKE) is called upon to testify as a government witness, and the Duke family finds itself in danger while protecting him from a couple...
When Boss Hogg (SORRELL BOOKE) fires Daisy (CATHERINE BACH) from her job at the Boar's Nest, she becomes the first female deputy in Hazzard County and...
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 City Morgue Gift Shop's Cemetery of the Stars - Sorrell Booke, Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazzard
Sorrell Booke is best known for his role as Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg in 'Dukes of Hazzard' TV sit-com series.
Shown here is his memorial marker and a souvenir toy car made in the image of his best known character's car.
A toy car was placed at his marker, and appears to have been well played with by a young fan.
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 The Dukes of Hazzard - HazzardNet.com - Sorrell Booke
The Dukes of Hazzard - HazzardNet.com - Sorrell Booke
To obtain Boss's hefty girth, Sorrell wore padding and although he smoked the cigars in front of the cameras, off camera he preferred cigarettes.
After the end of the series, Sorrell appeared in several television shows, including "Full House" where he played a somewhat cranky business man on the same flight as the Tanners on Christmas Eve.
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Purlie Victorious
Self-ordained preacher, Purlie (Davis), enlists the aid of Lutiebelle (Dee), his fiancee, to work against an autocratic plantation owner (Booke) as a representational freeing of his people from the opression of the Old South.
While at the same time, he is trying to convince the owner that Lutiebelle has reason to receive a family inheritance.
and reissued in 1966 as The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N. Alan Alda, Sorrell Booke, Godfrey Cambridge, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Hilda Haynes, Beah Richards
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 Amazon.com: Devil Times Five: Leif Garrett, Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Tierre Turner, Dawn Lyn: Movies & TV
After their van overturns in the snowy Colorado mountains, five kids from a mental institution (including Leif Garrett) seek shelter at a fancy winter resort occupied by rich snob adults (Sorrell Booke, "Boss Hogg" from THE DUKES OF HAZZARD TV series).
Also appearing is Sorrell `Boss Hogg' Booke ("The Dukes of Hazzard"), Shelley Morrison ("Will & Grace"), John Durren (The Gumball Rally), Gail Smale, Dawn `Dodie' Lyn ("My Three Sons"), Tierre Turner (Cornbread, Earl and Me), Tia Thompson, and 1970s child star Leif Garrett (Walking Tall Part II).
As the film opens we witness a number of things, the most substantial involving a boogie van with some children and a couple of adults careening off a snowy, California mountain road (the five children survive, while the adults, seemingly, aren't so lucky).
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 Sorrell Booke - News, Biography, Photos and More - AOL Television
Sorrell Booke - News, Biography, Photos and More - AOL Television
Sorrell Booke was born in Buffalo New York in in 1930, the son of a local...
Sorrell Booke Information - TV.com offers all of the latest Sorrell Booke news as well as exclusive Sorrell Booke photos.
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 Amazon.ca: Freaky Friday (1976): Gary Nelson, Iris Adrian, John Astin, Kaye Ballard, Sorrell Booke, Ruth Buzzi, Ceil ...
Based on the book by Mary Rodgers, this Walt Disney family comedy showcases a young Jodie Foster doing what she does best: convincingly behaving like an adult.
The supporting cast of '70s TV stars does pretty well too, with appearances by John Astin, Dick Van Patten, Ruth Buzzi, and even Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard).
Though it's still valid as a family-oriented feature with a moral lesson, this corny comedy is mostly entertaining as a lighthearted glimpse at the style and attitude of the '70s.
www.amazon.ca /Freaky-Friday-Gary-Nelson/dp/B0001I563M   (1251 words)

  
 Sorrell Booke at Hollywood.com
This accomplished character actor is most famous for his role in the long-running "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979-85), in which he played Boss Hogg, the foolhardy Southern mayor who cut a porcine figure in his all-white suits.
Few knew that Sorrell Booke started his acting career in Buffalo NY, where at age nine he performed on local radio programs, or that over the course of his life appeared in over 100 plays.
He won critical acclaim for his role as the unreconstructed Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee on Broadway in "Purlie Victorious" (1961), a role he recreated for his film debut, "Gone Are the Days" (1963).
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Sorrell_Booke/199760   (817 words)

  
 What A Character!
When I'm not researching obscure character actors I'm running a charity that helps the poorest school libraries in the U.S. Believe it or not some haven't had a new book in 40 years!
On TV?s The Dukes of Hazzard, Sorrell Booke played the comically corrupt Hazzard county commissioner ?Jefferson Davis ?Boss?
Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Yale University, where he received a Master's degree in fine arts.?
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Sorrell Booke : Biography
Booke would send away to the major networks for copies of scripts, then act out all the parts -- a different voice for each character -- in the privacy of his room.
After making his Broadway debut in 1955, Booke understudied Tom Bosley in Fiorello!
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 .:: chuggnutt ::. | weblog: Sorrell Booke
Random fun fact for the day: Sorrell Booke, the actor who played Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard television show, was fluent in five(!) languages and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer.
All I could dig up for what languages he was fluent in were English (obviously) and Japanese; I'm curious as to what the others are.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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