- Barton Yarborough
William Barton Yarborough (
October 2 1900 ,Goldthwaite, Texas –December 19 1951 ,Pasadena, California ) was an Americanactor who worked extensively inradio drama .As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the
vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s. In 1932 he began a long run as Clifford Barbour "One Man's Family ", continuing in the role throughout his life. While on this series in the late 1930s, he met and married the actressBarbara Jo Allen (1906-1974), famed during the 1940s as Vera Vague on "The Bob Hope Show".Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long on
Carlton E. Morse 's "I Love a Mystery " and Sergeant Ben Romero on "Dragnet".Yarborough appeared as Doc Long in three movies based on the radio series "I Love a Mystery": the feature films "I Love a Mystery" (1945), "The Devil's Mask" (1946), and "The Unknown" (1946). He started work on the "
Dragnet " television series in 1951. However, the day after he filmed the second episode, he suffered a heart attack and died four days later. On "Dragnet", the character of Ben Romero was replaced by Officer Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and on "One Man's Family" the character of Cliff Barbour, heard for 19 years, was dropped from the storyline.Yarborough's other radio work includes the role of Skip Turner in "
Adventures by Morse ", also by Carlton E. Morse. ]References
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