Glenn Strange

At 74 years old, Glenn Strange has this physical status:

George Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who appeared in Western films for the most part.

He is best known for his role as Sam Noonan, the popular bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series, as Frankenstein's monster in three Universal films during the 1940s and for his role as Sam Noonan.

Early life

Strange was born in Weed, New Mexico Territory, 13 years before New Mexico gained statehood.

In Cross Cut, Texas, a strange grew up. His father was a bartender and later a rancher. Strange discovered how to play the fiddle and guitar by ear. He was already performing at cowboy dances by the time he was 12 years old. He was on radio in El Paso, Texas, by 1928. He was a young rancher, but the Arizona Wranglers, a radio singing group, brought him to Hollywood in 1930. Strangers became entangled with the performers after appearing at a rodeo in Prescott, Arizona.

Personal life

Strange was 6 foot 5 inches tall and weighed 220 pounds. Flora Hooper of Duncan, Oklahoma, was his first wife. Wynema and Juanita had two children. Strange lived from 1937 to his second marriage, Minnie Thompson (1911–2004). Janine Laraine Strange (born 1939) was the couple's one child. He was descended on Irish and Cherokee descendants through his father. Strange was also an eighth-generation great-grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas through his maternal grandfather.

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Career

Strange appeared in a 12-part serial, The Hurricane Express, starring John Wayne, in 1932 as part of the Wrecker's gang. He appeared in hundreds of films throughout his lifetime and had his first motion picture role in 1932. He appeared in a few small parts in He appeared in numerous films in Usually as a member of an outlaw's band and occasionally as a local sheriff. In the Hopalong Cassidy film False Colors, he appeared as a villain. Butch Cavendish, the killer responsible for killing all of the Texas Rangers but not one in the long-running television series The Lone Rangers, began in 1949.

Jim Wade appeared twice on Bill Williams' syndicated Western series geared to young audiences The Adventures of Kit Carson In the syndicated Western The Cisco Kid, Blake appeared twice as Blake. In 1952, he was cast in the role of Chief Black Cloud in the syndicated The Range Rider's episode "Indian War Party." Strange appeared in Jim Davis' syndicated Western series Stories of the Century, in 1954, Billy Rowland appeared in his syndicated Western series Stories of the Century. Strangers appeared in six roles on Edgar Buchanan's syndicated Judge Roy Bean in 1956. Strange appeared in a small role as the sheriff in Silver Rapids in the Western film The Fastest Gun Alive starring Glenn Ford that same year. He appeared in a few episodes of John Payne's The Restless Gun in 1958, and he was instrumental in the Western series 26 Men, true tales about the Arizona Rangers. In the episode "Queen of the Cimarron" of the syndicated Western series Frontier Doctor, Pat Cafferty, who faces the threat of anthrax, appeared in the same year. In six episodes of "The Man in His Honor," Cole, the stagecoach's chauffeur; Joey, a stagecoach in "The Woman"; and "Miss Bertie," all based on the same character.

In five episodes of ABC Western The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and three segments of the syndicated Annie Oakley, Strange was cast. In 1959, he appeared in Mackenzie's Raiders, another Western syndicated series, in the episode "Apache Boy." Rip Owen in Stage Coach Robbers (1952), and as Link in Dead Giveaway (1958).

He first appeared on Gunsmoke in 1959 and spent many years on the program before being cast as stolid bartender Sam Noonan, a role he played from 1961 to 1973, but not in any sense of character beyond fetching either a drink or the marshal.

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