Paul Brinegar
Born	December 19, 1917(1917-12-19) Tucumcari, New Mexico
Died	March 27, 1995 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California
Years active	1946–1994

Paul Brinegar (December 19, 1917 - March 27, 1995) was an American character actor.

Brinegar made over 100 appearances between 1946 and 1994, appearing in many western films, and played the barman in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter in 1973. He was best known for his long-running role as the cook, "Wishbone," on Eastwood's CBS series Rawhide from 1959 to 1966, which also co-starred Eric Fleming.

The role of Wishbone was loosely carried over into the 1968-1970 CBS western series Lancer in which Brinegar played Jelly Hoskins. His co-stars were Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder.

In the early 1980s Brinegar played an occasional humorous cowboy-like character, "Lamar Pettybone" during the first season of ABC's TV series Matt Houston (unknown number of episodes from 1982-1983).

[edit] Filmography

Guest starred mostly in Westerns, including an appearance on the western-themed crime drama, State Trooper, starring Rod Cameron.

Non-Western roles included:

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Premonition" (1955)
• Perry Mason "The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary" (1958)
• Perry Mason "The Case of the Unwelcome Well" (1966)
• Country Boy as Link Byrd, Sr., the father of Nashville musician played by Randy Boone (1966)

[edit] External links

• Paul Brinegar at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Brinegar at Allmovie

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