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DIED. Lew Anderson, 84, jazz saxophonist most famous for his six-year stint as Clarabell the Clown, Buffalo Bob Smith's sidekick on TV's seminal '50s hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in Hawthorne, New York. The popular seltzer-squirting clown was mute until the show's final episode in...
DIED. Lew Anderson, 84, jazz saxophonist most famous for his six-year stint as Clarabell the Clown, Buffalo Bob Smith's sidekick on TV's seminal '50s children's hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in Hawthorne, N.Y. The popular, seltzer-squirting clown was mute until the show's final episode...
Keeshan, like great television artists from Ernie Kovacs on, was in a fundamental way pushing back against the very medium he loved. In 1948 he got his first onscreen job, as Clarabell--the mute clown who spoke by honking a horn--on what would become the Howdy Doody show. Kids...
DIED. BOB KEESHAN, 76, who played the beloved children's show character Captain Kangaroo for 36 years on CBS-TV and public television; in Windsor, Vermont. Keeshan began acting in 1948 as the frenetic clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he...
DIED. "BUFFALO BOB" SMITH, 80, revered TV icon and host of the medium's first smash hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in North Carolina. Starting in 1947, the avuncular would-be cowboy (along with his famous marionette) cheerfully presided over Doodyville U.S.A.--home to such goofy characters as Clarabell the...