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William Edward Baekey (November 13, 1925[1] – May 4, 1988)[2] was an American film and television actor.[3]

Ed Bakey
Born	William Edward Baekey (1925-11-13)November 13, 1925 Havre de Grace, Maryland, U.S.
Died	May 4, 1988(1988-05-04) (aged 62) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Baltimore City College
Occupation	Film and television actor
Years active	1944/1945–1988

Life and career

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 Eddie Greensleeve in Mike Wallace's program, in which his character was a folk singer.[7] In 1966, he played George Beenstock in the Broadway play 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 Granger.[9] His final film credit was from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.[3]

Death

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

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	Heaven with a Gun	Scotty Andrews
1970	Barquero	Happy
1971	Wild Rovers	Gambler
1972	The Other	Chan-yu
1973	The Sting	Granger
1974	For Pete's Sake	Angelo
1975	Darktown Strutters	Reverend S. Tilly
1975	Starsky & Hutch	Fifth Avenue
1977	The White Buffalo	Ben Corbett
1977	Telefon	Carl Hassler
1978	The Evil	Sam the Caretaker
1978	Hot Lead and Cold Feet	Joshua
1978	The Baltimore Bullet	Skinny
1981	Dead & Buried	Fisherman
1982	Zapped!	Father Gallagher
1984	The Philadelphia Experiment	Pa Willis

References

External links

• Ed Bakey at IMDb
• Ed Bakey at the TCM Movie Database
• Ed Bakey at AllMovie
• Rotten Tomatoes profile

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