Beau Lee(I)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Singer, journeyman drummer and road manager of the Spike Jones City
Slickers, which he joined in 1943. He began his professional musical
career touring in the Everett Hoagland Band, which played the historic
Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California (where
Stan Kenton was also one of the sidemen.)
Beau Lee became a popular drummer for a variety of groups that worked
in that venue. Lee came off the drums to participate in several vocal
skits, but by far his most famous performance was as Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini in the film Meet the People. At the time, Beau Lee was
also working the third shift at the Vega aircraft plant doing wartime
defense production.