Trivia

Former son-in-law of Lee J. Cobb, by his marriage to Julie Cobb.

At his funeral, his humorous farewell for friends and family was "Eat Shit, Love Victor," a message displayed overhead by an airplane.

Inducted (as a cast member of Little House on the Prairie (1974)) into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1998.

Had three children: Victor Jr. (born 1960) and twins Kelly and Tracy French (born 1962). Tracy French appeared on the final episode of Highway to Heaven (1984).

Like his friend Michael Landon, he was a chain smoker.

He had been ill with lung cancer for three months before his death.

Also like Michael Landon, he died at 54 of cancer.

Hooked-up with co-star Charlotte Stewart from TV Series "Little House on the Prairie (1974)".

Victor French is the great uncle to TV/film actress Kristin French and was her inspiration to follow in his footsteps. Kristin always knew Victor as "Uncle Eddie" because of his role in Little House as Mr. Edwards, the town's silly wisecracking drunk.

Son of actor Ted French, grandson of Charles A. French.

Like his father, French began his television career as a stuntman in mostly Westerns and anthology shows.

French appeared with his father in one episode of Gunsmoke, "Prime of Life", and another episode, "The Wishbone", where he was credited as "Victor Frence", both in 1966.

In 1963, he appeared as one of the "Spencer brothers" in the movie that was a forerunner of the television series The Waltons titled Spencer's Mountain starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. Both the movie and the series were based upon the same novel by Earl Hamner Jr.

French appeared in the war film The Quick and the Dead (1963), which was produced by the theatre arts department of Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys, which French attended.

He played the recurring character Agent 44 in the NBC series Get Smart in 1965-1966, where he portrayed an undercover spy who showed up in the worst, most unlikely of places (such as a mailbox or a porthole in a boat).