Jack Buetel

Jack Buetel; actually Warren Higgins ( born September 5, 1915 in Dallas, Texas, † 27 June 1989, Portland, Oregon ) was an American actor.

Life

Buetel moved in the late 1930s from Dallas to Los Angeles to pursue a career there as a film actor to begin with. About his agent he met the businessman and film producer Howard Hughes know who eventually offered him a seven -year contract for his film productions. Buetel debuted in 1940 in Hughes scandal movie Outlaw in the lead role of Billy The Kid. At his side stood the emerging movie star Jane Russell. Due to some complaints of censorship because of the offensive show of Jane Russell's breasts, the film experienced just three years later, his first performance. Following Buetel the United States Navy and was joined in 1951 to see again on the big screen.

In the following years Buetel turned some Western, but was unable to repeat the success of Outlaw. In 1956 he starred in 25 episodes of the American television show Judge Roy Bean and was propagated to see from now on in television production. He had his last role in 1961 in Wagon Train and joined afterwards only once, in 1982 the television special Night of 100 Stars, before the camera.

Filmography (selection)

TV