1. Don DeFore is best known for his roles in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1952 to 1957 and the sitcom Hazel from 1961 to 1965, the former of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
15 Facts About Don DeFore
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Don DeFore initially studied law while playing basketball, track, and baseball before becoming interested in acting.
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Don DeFore remained in New York and won a key role in The Male Animal, which ran for almost eight months on Broadway and eight months on the road.
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Don DeFore worked in radio, performing on such programs as Suspense, Old Gold Comedy Theater, and Lux Radio Theatre, but he is best known for his work in television.
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Don DeFore was instrumental in arranging for the Emmy Awards to be broadcast on national television for the first time on March 7,1955.
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Don DeFore served on the board of the Screen Actors Guild.
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From 1961 to 1965, Don DeFore was a co-star of the television series Hazel as George Baxter, employer of the spirited, domineering housekeeper Hazel Burke, played by Shirley Booth and based on the cartoon character appearing in The Saturday Evening Post.
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Don DeFore was not the original actor to portray George Baxter.
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Don DeFore took over the role when the series was green-lighted.
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In 1970, Don DeFore appeared as Mayor Evans on the TV Western The Men from Shiloh in the episode titled "Colonel Mackenzie Versus the West".
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Don DeFore married singer Marion Holmes on February 14,1942.
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Don DeFore was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite and Master Mason Freemason.
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In July 1969, Don DeFore served as the American delegate at the Moscow International Film Festival.
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On December 22,1993, Don DeFore died of cardiac arrest at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
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Don DeFore's cremated remains are interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.