Jeff York
Born	March 23, 1912(1912-03-23) Los Angeles, California
Died	October 11, 1995 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor

Jeff York (March 23, 1912 - October 11, 1995) was an American film and television actor who began his career in the late 1930s using the stage name Granville Owen. He was also sometimes credited as Jeff Yorke.

During his early career, the tall, dark haired actor was a natural to play characters such as Pat Ryan in the 1940 serial Terry and the Pirates and was given the lead in the 1940 Li'l Abner film. However, he is perhaps most remembered for his role as Bud Searcy in the 1957 Walt Disney classic Old Yeller, starring Fess Parker, Dorothy McGuire, Kevin Corcoran, and Tommy Kirk. Beverly Washburn played Lisbeth Searcy, Bud's daughter. During the 1950s and 1960s, York appeared in supporting roles in numerous film and television productions, many of them by Disney.

York attracted considerable attention in the mid-1950s with his television portrayal of Mike Fink, the flamboyant keelboat operator in two episodes of Disney's hugely popular Davy Crockett miniseries in the episodes "Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race" and "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates." York was cast opposite Fess Parker in the role. The first episode featured a memorable boasting contest and a keelboat race, with Fink's boat named The Gullywumper; in the second, Crockett and Fink join forces to fight a band of river pirates who blame their depredations on local Indians.

“

Girls run and hide, brave men shiver...I'm Mike Fink, king of the river!

”

York also starred as mountain man/fur trapper Joe Crane in two different Disney series, The Saga of Andy Burnett, adapted from the Stewart Edward White novel The Long Rifle; and in the "mountain man" arc of Disney's most popular TV show, Zorro.

“

You see before you Joe Crane, as big as life and twice as nasty!

”

In addition, York co-starred in the Fess Parker movie The Great Locomotive Chase, alongside Slim Pickens, Harry Carey, Jr., and Stan Jones (Jones wrote the legendary cowboy song "(Ghost) Riders In the Sky"). York also co-starred as "Reno McKee" with Roger Moore in the 1959 Warner Bros. television series The Alaskans.

[edit] Partial filmography

• 1967 Tammy and the Millionaire - Grundy Tate
• 1963 Savage Sam - Bud Searcy
• 1957 Old Yeller - Bud Searcy
• 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice - Blair
• 1945 They Were Expendable - Ens. Tony Aiken
• 1940 Lil Abner - Lil Abner
• 1940 Terry and the Pirates - Pat Ryan
• 1957 Johnny Tremain - James Otis

[edit] External links

• Jeff York (I) at the Internet Movie Database

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