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In 1957, Weaver hosted his own NBC variety show The Doodles Weaver Show. In addition to his radio work, he also recorded a number of comedy records, appeared in films and guest-starred on numerous television series from the 1950s through the 1970s. Weaver made his last onscreen appearance in 1981.
In this case, Weaver's now gravelly-voiced track announcer begins describing a boxing match. The song concludes with Weaver announcing the winner... Beetlebaum! [2] The City Slickers and Doodles Weaver recorded a sequel, describing the Indianapolis 500 and underscored by Dance of the Hours. Near the conclusion of the race, a horrific accident ...
The show was a quirky comic phenomenon of its time, ... Doodles Weaver, and The Three Stooges themselves. In 1963, Shreve's combined experience in vaudeville, comic ...
Born in Los Angeles, Sylvester Laflin Weaver Jr. was the son of Eleanor Isabel (née Dixon) and Sylvester Laflin Weaver. [1] His brother was comedian Doodles Weaver.. Weaver was of English descent and Scottish descent (possibly Clan MacFarlane), [3] as well as of Ulster-Scots, Dutch and early New England ancestry (going back to migration of Puritans from England to New England in the 1600s). [4]
Doodles Weaver: George Bricker Regis "Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter" (2.09) "A Black Day for Mayberry" (4.07) Weaver was the brother of former NBC president Pat Weaver and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver: Clarence White: The Country Boys member "Mayberry on Record" (1.19) White was lead guitarist for The Kentucky Colonels, and later, The Byrds.
Her father served as president of NBC from 1953 to 1955, during which time he created The Today Show. [10] Pat's brother, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and contributor to Mad. [11] She is of Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish descent through her father. [12] [13]
In 1941, one of Copp's comedy narratives was performed by comic Doodles Weaver for a Soundie movie short, "Arabella and the Water Tank." Copp and Weaver would work on comedy scripts for radio and club routines off and on for the next several years, until Doodles moved to California in 1946, to join Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
The radio and television versions combined to make the show "one of the longest-running Western ... Stars L.Q. Jones and Doodles Weaver. 224: 6 "Alias James Stuart ...