Parley Baer

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Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914-1922), an American actor who appeared on television and later in television and film, was an American actor who later worked in radio and film.

Early life, family and education

Parley Edward Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the University of Utah, he studied drama.

Personal life and death

Ernestine Clarke, a 1946 circus aerialist and bareback rider, met and married circus aerialist and bareback rider Ernestine Clarke. They were married for 54 years before her death in Tarzana, California, on August 5, 2000.

Baer was a long-serving member of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Encino, California, where he served in various capacities, including head usher.

Baer paid the eulogy at Howard McNear's funeral in 1969. Floyd the Barber of Mayberry had been portrayed by McNear, and Baer had played Mayor Roy Stoner. In the radio version of Gunsmoke, McNear portrayed Doc Adams, often in association with Baer's character Chester Proudfoot.

Following another stroke, Baer was admitted to the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on November 11, 2002. He died there eleven days later, at the age of 88.

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Career

Baer had a circus education, but he started his radio work at KSL, Utah's second largest television station.

Baer, a circus ringmaster and publicist, was a circus ringmaster and publicist early in his career. In World War II, he had left those positions for military service. He had a job at Jungleland USA in Thousand Oaks, California, in the 1950s. He remained a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo later in life.

During World War II, Baer was promoted as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces, rising to the rank of Captain. He served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1946, receiving an Army Presidential Unit Citation, the Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and seven service stars.

In the 1930s, Baer appeared on radio as the host of special events for KSL. To name a few, his first television show was The Whistler, which was immediately followed by appearances on Escape (including narrating "Wild Jack Rhett"), Suspense, Tales of the Texas Rangers (as various local sheriffs) and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

He started playing Chester, the trusty jailhouse assistant to Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke, and then ad-libbing the character's full name, "Chester Wesley Proudfoot" (later changed to "Chester Goode" in the televised version of the story, which starred Dennis Weaver in the role of Chester). Baer appeared on several other radio shows compiled by Norman MacDonnell, including Pete the Marshal on Rogers of the Gazette and as additional characters on Fort Laramie and The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

In addition, Eb the farmhand on Granby's Green Acres (the radio precursor to television's Green Acres), Gramps on The Truitts; and Rene the manservant on a radio version of The Count of Monte Cristo's Rene. Cristo's number is a television version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reginald Duffield and Uncle Joe Finneman were among his later radio appearances on the Family Network Adventures in Odyssey in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, radio playwright and producer Norman Corwin cast Baer as Simon Legree.

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