Jack Sheldon
Jack Sheldon ( born November 30, 1931 in Jacksonville, Florida ) is an American actor, singer, and jazz trumpeter - originally the West Coast jazz of the 1950s.
Life
Sheldon began in Florida in 1943 to play professional trumpet and moved in 1947 to Los Angeles, where he first played in an Air Force band, and then became part of the "West Coast jazz " scene. He has played with Jimmy Giuffre, Herb Geller, Wardell Gray, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Curtis Counce, Art Pepper and Gerry Mulligan. He enters today (2007) in their own groups, including own jazz parties and with specially compiled Big Band. He participated regularly in jazz West ( 1955 ), and later with Concord Jazz and for his own label on Butterfly.
As an actor was Sheldon Star own comedic TV series called "Run, buddy, run " (English Run Buddy Run) at CBS, which aired on ZDF in 1969, in which he as Buddy Overstreet accidentally overheard mobsters and in 13 episodes on the escape is. In addition, he was the sidekick of Merv Griffin in the show in the 1970s and in the police series "Police Report" ( English Dragnet ). In the U.S., his voice is also from some of the Sunday " School House Rock " television clips for children known to have been broadcast in the early 1970s; For example, " Conjunction junction" ( in which a shunter the use of words and / or explained ) and " I'm just Bill" (explained in the students such as laws of draft laws - English "Bill " - arise ). Sheldon also worked a lot as a studio musician. His trumpet solo can be heard in the soundtrack (mostly by Tom Waits ) by Francis Ford Coppola's "One to the heart" (1986). In 1994, he played a trumpet player in the movie " Radioland Murders " by Mel Smith, and was seen in 1991 in For the boys from Mark Rydell, where Bette Midler as a military advisor during the Second World War.
By Doug McIntyre and Penny Peyser interviews with Clint Eastwood, Billy Crystal, Johnny Mandel, Dom DeLuise, Terry Gibbs and others - 2008, the documentary " the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Trying to get good " was born.
His mother Jen Loven was known in Hollywood for their swimming school in which she taught the children of movie stars.