1. Sorrell Booke was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television.
19 Facts About Sorrell Booke
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Sorrell Booke acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows, and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Sorrell Booke won a radio contest for mimicking the voice of Adolf Hitler, and appeared regularly as an actor on local radio stations WGR and WEBR.
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Sorrell Booke attended Bennett High School and was valedictorian of the Class of 1946.
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Sorrell Booke enrolled in Columbia University at 16, and performed in Shakespearean plays in Columbia's drama club.
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Sorrell Booke graduated from Columbia at 19 in 1949, and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama.
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Sorrell Booke once starred in a stage production of Beethoven with Paul Newman while at Yale.
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Sorrell Booke served in the United States Army during the Korean War for two years as a counterintelligence officer.
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Sorrell Booke worked as a voice actor in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Sorrell Booke was a guest conductor at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Sorrell Booke appeared in an episode of Mission: Impossible from the first season in 1966.
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Sorrell Booke had a recurring role in All in the Family as Mr Sanders, personnel manager at Archie Bunker's workplace, Prendergast Tool and Die Company.
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Sorrell Booke copied the Hogg character's American South drawl from US senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond.
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Sorrell Booke was fluent in English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and Italian.
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Sorrell Booke called his Boss Hogg character "despicable", but enjoyed meeting fans of the show.
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Sorrell Booke married Miranda Knickerbocker, then a senior at Barnard College, in 1958.
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Sorrell Booke was the daughter of journalist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker.
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On February 11,1994, Sorrell Booke died of colorectal cancer in Sherman Oaks, California.
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Sorrell Booke is interred at the Jewish cemetery Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.