Ed Bakey

Bakey was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, later being raised in Baltimore, Maryland at an early age.[4][5] He attended at Baltimore City College, later graduating in 1943,[5] in which he then began his career in 1944/1945.[4] Bakey worked at the Hilltop Theatre, in which he later moved to New York to perform at the Provincetown Playhouse.[4] In radio, he worked as a announcer for the television station WBAL-TV and radio director for a radio broadcasting station.[4][5] Bakey later served as a radio director for the radio broadcasting station WTOW in Towson, Maryland, in which he then worked for the CBS television station WJZ-TV as "Pop-Pop",[6] in 1957.[4][5]

Bakey played the role of "Eddie Greensleeve" in Mike Wallace's program, in which his character was a folk singer.[7] In 1966, he played the role of "George Beenstock" in the Broadway play, titled, Walking Happy.[5][8] Bakey began his film and television career in 1967, where he first appeared in the western television series Death Valley Days. He guest-starred in television programs, including, Gunsmoke,[5] Mission: Impossible, The F.B.I., The Big Valley,[5] Bonanza, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Cimarron Strip, Dundee and the Culhane,[5] The Guns of Will Sonnett, Night Gallery, Police Woman, One Day at a Time, Hill Street Blues and Star Trek: The Original Series.[3]

Bakey film credits includes, The White Buffalo, Zapped!, Darktown Strutters, The Evil, Heaven with a Gun, For Pete's Sake, The Baltimore Bullet and Telefon.[3] In 1973, he appeared in the film The Sting,[3] which starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford, in which Bakey played the role of "Granger".[9] His final film credit was from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.[3]

Bakey died in May 1988 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.[10]

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