1. Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver was an American character actor, comedian, and musician.
21 Facts About Doodles Weaver
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Despondent over poor health, Doodles Weaver fatally shot himself in January 1983.
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Doodles Weaver was of English and Scottish ancestry with roots in New England.
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Doodles Weaver's mother gave him the nickname "Doodlebug" as a child because of his freckles and big ears.
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Doodles Weaver attended Los Angeles High School and Stanford University.
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At Stanford, Doodles Weaver was a contributor to the Stanford Chaparral humor magazine.
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Doodles Weaver was known to engage in numerous pranks and practical jokes and earned the nickname "The Mad Monk".
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Doodles Weaver was reportedly suspended from Stanford in 1937 for pulling a prank on the train home from the Rose Bowl.
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In 1946, Doodles Weaver signed on as a member of Spike Jones's City Slickers band.
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Doodles Weaver toured the country with the Spike Jones Music Depreciation Revue until 1951.
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Doodles Weaver gives a close impression of the gravel-voiced sports announcer Clem McCarthy in a satire of a horse race announcer who forgets whether he's covering a horse race or a boxing match.
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Jones and Doodles Weaver followed this hit with a 1949 parody of the Indianapolis 500 automobile race, again with Doodles Weaver as commentator, set to Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours".
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Doodles Weaver was a contributor to the early Mad, as described by Time's Richard Corliss:.
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Doodles Weaver made his television debut on The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1951.
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Doodles Weaver performed an Ajax cleanser commercial with a pig, and the audience reaction prompted the network to give him his own series.
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Doodles Weaver went on to guest star on numerous television shows including The Spike Jones Show, The Donna Reed Show, Dennis the Menace, and The Tab Hunter Show.
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Doodles Weaver portrayed eccentric characters in guest appearances on such television series as Batman, Land of the Giants, Dragnet 1967 and The Monkees.
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Doodles Weaver appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor, Pocketful of Miracles and, in a cameo, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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On January 16,1983, Doodles Weaver was discovered dead by his son Winston at his Burbank, California home.
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Doodles Weaver died of two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the chest.
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Doodles Weaver was buried in Avalon Cemetery on Santa Catalina Island, California.