| Ed Bakey | |
| Birth Name: | William Edward Baekey |
| Birth Date: | 13 November 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Havre de Grace, Maryland, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Film and television actor |
| Alma Mater: | Baltimore City College |
| Years Active: | 1944/1945–1988 |
William Edward Baekey (November 13, 1925 – May 4, 1988)[1] was an American film and television actor.
Bakey was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and moved to Baltimore at an early age.[2] [3] He attended Baltimore City College, graduating in 1943, and began his acting career in 1945 at the Hilltop Theatre. He later moved to New York to perform at the Provincetown Playhouse. He then worked as an announcer for the television station WBAL-TV and as a director for a radio station. In 1957 he appeared on the CBS television station WJZ-TV as the clown "Pop-Pop" in The Jack Wells Show.[4] He also played the folk singer Eddie Greensleeve in Mike Wallace's program.[5] In 1966, he played George Beenstock in the Broadway play Walking Happy.[6] Bakey returned to television work in 1967, appearing in the western television series Death Valley Days. He guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, The F.B.I., The Big Valley, Bonanza, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Cimarron Strip, Dundee and the Culhane, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Night Gallery, Police Woman, One Day at a Time, Hill Street Blues and Star Trek.[7]
Bakey’s film credits include The White Buffalo, Zapped!, Darktown Strutters, The Evil, Heaven with a Gun, For Pete's Sake, The Baltimore Bullet and Telefon. In 1973, he appeared in the film The Sting.[8] His final film credit was for the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Bakey died in May 1988 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.[9]
| background: #f9f9f9; | +Film acting work by Ed Bakey | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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| Final film role | ||||
| Short film |
| background: #f9f9f9; | +Television acting work by Ed Bakey | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode: "The Informer Who Cried" | ||||
| Episode: "A Gun for Jai" | ||||
| Episode: "Without Honor" | ||||
| - | Jellicoe / Homer Blessing | 2 episodes | ||
| The First Fop | Episode: "All Our Yesterdays" | |||
| - | Burt Simpson / Link Mason / Floyd Stryder / Corell | 4 episodes | ||
| Leach | Episode: "The Experiment" | |||
| Jubel / Bates | 2 episodes | |||
| Scully | Episode: "Incident in the Desert" | |||
| Filbus | Segment: "Love and the Traveling Salesman" Episode: "Love and the Artful Codger/Love and the Neglected Wife/Love and the Traveling Salesman" | |||
| - | Attendant / Dr. Kadar | 2 episodes | ||
| Ollie | Segment: "Lindemann's Catch" Episode: "Lindemann's Catch/A Feast of Blood/The Late Mr. Peddington" | |||
| - | Goody Stackpole / Farmer / Reverend Bright | 3 episodes | ||
| - | Lumis / Louby Sains / Hake | 3 episodes | ||
| Sonny | Episode: "One for You, Two for Me" | |||
| Episode: "Two of a Kind" | ||||
| Incident at Vichy | Ferrand | Television film | ||
| Bloom | 2 episodes | |||
| The Godchild | Shaw | Television film | ||
| Lt. Lincoln Gormley | Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl" | |||
| Rummy | Episode: "Letters from the Grave" | |||
| The Honorable Sam Houston | Television film | |||
| Vanderhoff | Television film | |||
| Fifth Avenue | Episode: "Lady Blue" | |||
| Citizen with Knife | Episode: "The Last Days" Uncredited | |||
| - | Mongoose / Jimmy Higgins / The Man | 3 episodes | ||
| Floyd Calendar | Episode: "The Scream of Eagles" | |||
| Ed Jackson | Episode: "Angel in a Box" | |||
| Eli | Television film | |||
| Desmond Winkus | Television film | |||
| Mr. Shallit | Episode: "Company Town" | |||
| Television film | ||||
| - | Lyman Nickerson / Deacon Tippett | 3 episodes | ||
| Bastaine | Episode: "Created Equal" | |||
| Television film | ||||
| Jimbo | Episode: "Science for Sale" | |||
| Man at Bar | Episode: "Social Insecurity" | |||
| Rich Steck | Episode: "Too Much of a Good Thing" | |||
| Monsignor Kelly | Episode: "Broadway Malady" | |||
| Episode: "Motor Homicide" | ||||
| Earl Watkins | 3 episodes | |||
| Lovebeads | Episode: "Fighting City Hall" | |||
| Mr. Goldfarb | Episode: "Say Uncle" | |||
| Paul | Episode: "Wally" |