Milburn Stone
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Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr.
Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke.
Early life
Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. Stone's brother, Joe Stone, says their uncle Fred Stone, was a versatile actor who appeared on Broadway and in circuses).
Although Stone had a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he turned it down, choosing instead to become an actor with a stock theater company headed by Helen Ross.
Personal life
Stone's brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke.
Stone was a cousin of the character actress Madge Blake.
In March 1971, Stone had heart bypass surgery at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.
Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. His second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, died in 2002. Stone had married, divorced, and remarried Garrison.
Career
Stone appeared on stage in a Kansas tent show in 1919. In the late 1920s, he ventured into vain, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance troupe. Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934).
Stone came from Los Angeles, California, to begin his own screen career in the 1930s. He appeared in Monogram Pictures' Tailspin Tommy adventure series. Stephen Douglas appeared in the film Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), starring Henry Fonda and Ward Bond. He appeared in When Tomorrow Comes as the head busboy in 1939 (uncredited). In the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble in 1940, he appeared alongside Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley. He co-starred with Roy Rogers in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong the same year.
Stone was uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. In the 1943 film Gung Ho, Stone played Dr. Blake. In Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny, a liberal-minded warden, was present in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943 (1943), Jungle Women (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery] (1944), he became a familiar face in the company's films and serials. In 1944, he portrayed a Ration Board official in Universal-produced public service film Prices Unlimited for the United States Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information. In the Gloria Jean-Kirby Grant film I'll Remember April, one of his film roles was as a radio columnist. In the 1945 film The Master Key, he made such a good impression in this film that Universal Studios gave him a leading role (and a similar characterization). He appeared in the Inner Sanctum murder mystery The Frozen Ghost in the same year. In 1953, Stone appeared in Arrowhead as Charlton Heston's sidekick, as well as Brian Keith and Katy Jurado.
Also, in 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with various actors for various reasons (William Conrad was too bloated to play Matt Dillon on film, Georgia Ellis wasn't viewed as telegenic enough to portray Kitty on television, etc.). Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams (who later played Floyd the barber on television's The Andy Griffith Show), was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a more challenging edge in his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone necessitated heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes from 1976 to 1976, often with co-star Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen.