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- Eddie Acuff is one of those wonderful supporting actors who peopled the fascinating world of Hollywood's A, B or Z movies. In a career spanning eighteen years he appeared in an amazing almost 300 movies and one TV episode! His appearances could be invisible (when deleted), hardly visible (he portrayed an endless series of cabbies, reporters, cameramen, cowboys, hamburger vendors, orderlies, ticket agents, militiamen, bus drivers, the lot...), short but recurring (he was the accident-prone mailman in the 'Blondie' series after Irving Bacon gave up the part) or more fleshed out, notably as the sidekick in various serials. Anyway, he nearly always played - in a very talented way - the wise-cracking guy who "knows better". Born on June 3rd 1903, Edward Acuff was drawn to acting under the influence of his maternal uncle, who had been a performer on showboats along the Mississippi. Before going to Hollywood, Eddie Acuff started a theater career, and even played on Broadway (in minor roles of course) in plays such as 'The Dark Hour', 'Heat Lightning' or 'Yellow Jack'. From 1934 to 1951 (five years before his untimely death following a sudden heart attack), Eddie Acuff worked and worked and worked. Only a few of his films are classics (The Petrified Forest (1936), They Drive by Night (1940), High Sierra (1940), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Johnny Allegro (1949))...So what? Seeing but a glimpse of Acuff is always a dose of pleasure guaranteed. Eddie Acuff is buried at the North Hollywood Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.
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Buster Wiles was born on 5 November 1910 in near Caruthersville, Missouri, USA. He was an actor. He died on 20 July 1990 in Washington County, Oregon, USA.- Actress
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Donna Hightower was born on 28 December 1926 in Caruthersville, Missouri, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for The Harrad Experiment (1973), The Freshmen (2018) and Der Kommissar (1969). She died on 19 August 2013 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Music Department
Reggie Young was born on 12 December 1936 in Caruthersville, Missouri, USA. He is known for Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 (1993), The Oscars (2018) and American Music Shop (1990). He was married to Jenny Lynn Hollowell and Diane Young. He died on 17 January 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.