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American character actor in scores of films after substantial stage experience. He was born in DeSoto, Missouri, but raised in Atchison, Kansas. The son of a railroad worker and law clerk (some publicity material states the father was a physician, but family and census records show otherwise), he wavered between various careers including oil exploration, but found his way after an introduction to the stage with the Atchison Civic Theatre and Kansas City Civic Theatre. He briefly attended the University of Kansas (where he was a fraternity brother of future newsman John Cameron Swayze). He moved from Kansas to California in 1930, where he lived with his grandparents and worked in the lemon groves near Pomona prior to opening a tire-repair shop in that city. He also helped found a theatre company in Pomona. He joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he was spotted by a Warner Bros. talent scout looking for someone with a resemblance to Henry Clay, for the Warners short film The Monroe Doctrine (1939). He signed with Warners as a contract player and was thereafter virtually never without work. He played in an enormous number of films over the next three decades, mostly in small supporting roles. He was equally adept at playing businessmen, attorneys, or historical figures, and was a familiar face on screen and on television for his entire career, though most people would have been unable to identify him by name. Perhaps his greatest fame came in the TV role of oil company president John Brewster on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). During the last years of his life, he was co-owner of a popular restaurant/bar in Encino, California, called The Oak Room. Wilcox died in 1974.- Casting Director
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Judy Taylor was born in DeSoto, Missouri, USA. She is a casting director, known for Aliens (1986), Back to the Future (1985) and Innerspace (1987). She has been married to Mark L. Taylor since 1975. They have two children.- Duke of Paducah was born on 12 May 1901 in DeSoto, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Country Music Caravan (1964), Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966) and Country Fair (1941). He died on 20 June 1986 in Brentwood, Tennessee, USA.
- Jalen Mills was born on 6 April 1994 in DeSoto, Texas, USA.
- Zach Orr was born on 9 June 1992 in DeSoto, Texas, USA.