PARLEY BAER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Parley Baer was born on August 5th, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah with the birth name Parley Edward Baer. His entertainment experience stemmed from working in the Circus as a ringmaster for Circus Vargus and Barnum & Bailey. He even created and toured with his own circuses and later found work at a local Utah radio station.
During the late 1940's and 1950's he increased his level of popularity working on the radio becoming quite a busy performer. It did not take long before he broke into working as a television actor adding such credits to his resume as, "Suspense", "Tales of the Texas Rangers", "Dragnet" starring Jack Webb, "The CBS Radio Workshop", "The Six Shooter" starring James Stewart, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" and "Father Knows Best".
As his career progressed he mainly focused on television work but did appear in an occasional film here and there, although many of his film roles were un-credited with the exceptions of such films as, "Drango" (1957) starring Jeff Chandler, Ronald Howard, Joanne Dru, Julie London, Donald Crisp, John Lupton, Morris Ankrum, David Stollery, Rex Allen, Chubby Johnson, Barney Phillips and Milburn Stone, "The Young Lions" (1958) starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Barbara Rush, May Britt, Hope Lange, Lee Van Cleef and Maximilian Schell, "The FBI Story" (1959) starring alongside James Stewart, Vera Miles, Nick Adams, Larry Pennell, Victor Millan and Murray Hamilton, "Cash McCall" (1960) starring James Garner, Natalie Wood, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall, Otto Kruger, Roland Winters and Nina Foch, "The Spiral Road" (1962) starring Rock Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Reggie Nalder, Philip Abbott and Neva Patterson, "Bedtime Story" (1964) starring Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones and Marie Windsor, Walt Disney's "The Ugly Dachshund" (1966) starring Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and Charlie Ruggles and "The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again" (1970) also starring Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills, Lana Wood and Burt Mustin .
He appeared in over 150 television series throughout his career as an actor with some of the more well known roles being on, "Bonanza", "Petticoat Junction", "The Lineup", "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", "Fury", "You Are There", "Trackdown", "Lock Up", "The Man Behind the Badge", "Thriller", "The Real McCoys", "Burke's Law", "Zane Grey Theatre", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Bus Stop", "The Rifleman", "Laramie", "Death Valley Days", "The Lucy Show", "Lassie", "The Loretta Young Show", "Checkmate", "The Bob Cummings Show", "The Public Defender", The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" and "The Outcasts".
Prior to retiring from the industry in 1996 some of his more recent roles included appearances on the television series, "Make Room for Daddy", "The Jack Benny Program", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Renegade", "Coach" and "Star Trek: Voyager".
In addition to his television and film work he was also the popular voice of Ernie Keebler in all the "Keebler cookie commercials".
Baer married only one time to Ernestine Clarke in 1946 and they had two children and remained married until she passed away in 2000. Two years later he lost his life due to complications from a stroke on November 22nd, 2002 in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
1996 Star Trek: Voyager
1995 Coach
1995 Last of the Dogmen
1994 Renegade
1994 Roswell
1990-1994 L.A. Law
1994 Viper
1973 The Young and the Restless
1993 Dave
1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1993 Mad About You
1993 King B: A Life in the Movies
1991-1992 Quantum Leap
1992 Space Case
1991 Beverly Hills, 90210
1991 The Flash
1991 Inside Out
1991 Major Dad
1991 The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster
1990 Almost an Angel
1990 True Colors
1989-1990 Life Goes On
1989 Growing Pains
1989 Time Trackers
1988 License to Driv
1988 Night Court
1987 Breaking Home Ties
1987 Hunter
1987 The Golden Girls
1984-1987 Newhart
1987 One Big Family
1986 Simon & Simon
1986 The Twilight Zone
1986 Under the Influence
1986 Killer in the Mirror
1986 Flag
1985 Shadow Chasers
1985 Pray for Death
1981-1984 The Dukes of Hazzard
1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1984 Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984 The A-Team
1983 Three's Company
1983 Doctor Detroit
1983 Archie Bunker's Place
1982 Dallas
1982 Father Murphy
1982 Madame's Place
1982 White Dog
1979-1982 Lou Grant
1982 Cry for the Strangers
1982 Hart to Hart
1981 Harper Valley
1981 Carbon Copy
1981 Murder in Texas
1981 Flamingo Road
1981 Knots Landing
1980 WKRP in Cincinnati
1980 Rodeo Girl
1980 Insight
1980 Hello, Larry
1976-1980 Little House on the Prairie
1980 B.J. and the Bear
1979 The Incredible Hulk
1978-1979 Charlie's Angels
1978-1979 How the West Was Won
1979 Supertrain
1978 The Time Machine
1978 True Grit
1978 Project U.F.O.
1977 Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1977 Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
1977 Halloween with the New Addams Family
1977 The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977 How the West Was Won
1976 The Amazing Dobermans
1976 The Streets of San Francisco
1975 Three for the Road
1975 The Manhunter
1975 Winner Take All
1974 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1974 Punch and Jody
1974 Apple's Way
1973 Sixteen
1973 Kung Fu
1971-1973 Medical Center
1972 The New Temperatures Rising Show
1966-1972 Bewitched
1972 The Don Rickles Show
1969-1971 Here's Lucy
1971 The D.A.
1959-1971 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1971 The Mod Squad
1971 Skin Game
1971 The Sheriff
1965-1971 Green Acres
1962-1970 The Virginian
1970 The Bill Cosby Show
1970 The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1965-1970 The F.B.I.
1965-1970 Petticoat Junction
1970 Mannix
1965-1969 Hogan's Heroes
1969 Young Billy Young
1969 Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969 The Doris Day Show
1969 The New People
1969 Doc
1969 The Outcasts
1969 Land of the Giants
1969 The Queen and I
1969 The Name of the Game
1969 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1968 Ironside
1968 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968 Judd for the Defense
1968 Day of the Evil Gun
1968 Lassie
1967-1968 The Second Hundred Years
1967 Counterpoint
1966-1967 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1967 I Dream of Jeannie
1967 The Gnome-Mobile
1967 Laredo
1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967 Occasional Wife
1967 Rango
1964-1967 The Fugitive
1966 The Phyllis Diller Show
1966 Follow Me, Boys!
1961-1966 Perry Mason
1966 The Double Life of Henry Phyfe
1965-1966 The Addams Family
1962-1966 The Lucy Show
1961-1966 Bonanza
1966 An Evening with Carol Channing
1966 The Ugly Dachshund
1965-1966 The Farmer's Daughter
1965 Burke's Law
1965 F Troop
1955-1965 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1963-1965 Death Valley Days
1965 My Favorite Martian
1965 Marriage on the Rocks
1965 The Money Trap
1965 Fluffy
1965 Profiles in Courage
1965 Bus Riley's Back in Town
1965 Hazel
1965 My Living Doll
1965 Those Calloways
1965 Two on a Guillotine
1964 Mickey
1964 Karen
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1964 Wendy and Me
1964 The Rogues
1964 The Outer Limits
1964 Bedtime Story
1964 The Brass Bottle
1963-1964 Temple Houston
1964 The Jack Benny Program
1964 The Great Adventure
1964 77 Sunset Strip
1962-1963 Wagon Train
1963 Dr. Kildare
1963 Rawhide
1963 G.E. True
1962-1963 The Andy Griffith Show
1962 Gypsy
1962 Laramie
1959-1962 Have Gun - Will Travel
1962 The Spiral Road
1962 Room for One More
1962 Bachelor Father
1954-1962 G.E. True Theater
1961-1962 Target: The Corruptors
1962 The Dick Powell Theatre
1962 Frontier Circus
1959-1962 Dennis the Menace
1959-1961 The Rifleman
1961 Bus Stop
1961 The Gertrude Berg Show
1961 The New Breed
1961 Westinghouse Playhouse
1961 Adventures in Paradise
1961 Checkmate
1961 Angel
1961 Michael Shayne
1961 A Fever in the Blood
1961 Harrigan and Son
1960 The Roaring Twenties
1958-1960 The Real McCoys
1960 Dan Raven
1960 The Law and Mr. Jones
1960 National Velvet
1959-1960 Make Room for Daddy
1960 Thriller
1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960 The Slowest Gun in the West
1960 Wake Me When It's Over
1960 Cash McCall
1960 Startime
1959 Lock Up
1956-1959 Zane Grey Theatre
1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1959 The FBI Story
1959 The Texan
1959 Fibber McGee and Molly
1959 Whirlybirds
1958-1959 Goodyear Theatre
1959 Black Saddle
1958 Steve Canyon
1958 Paul Bunyan
1958 Matinee Theatre
1958 The Young Lion
1958 Trackdown
1957 The Court of Last Resort
1957 Official Detective
1957 Sally
1957 The 20th Century-Fox Hour
1957 Panic!
1957 Wire Service
1956-1957 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
1955-1957 I Love Lucy
1957 The Ford Television Theatre
1957 Drango
1956 Hey, Jeannie!
1955-1956 You Are There
1956 Away All Boats
1956 Carolyn
1956 D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 Fury
1955 TV Reader's Digest
1952-1955 Our Miss Brooks
1955 It's a Great Life
1955 Treasury Men in Action
1955 So This Is Hollywood
1955 The Man Behind the Badge
1955 The Bob Cummings Show
1955 The Lineup
1955 The Public Defender
1955 Father Knows Best
1954 The Loretta Young Show
1954 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1954 The Gambler from Natchez
1953 Vicki
1953 Pickup on South Street
1952 Dragnet
1952 Something for the Birds
1952 Fearless Fagan
1952 The Dennis Day Show
1952 Deadline - U.S.A.
1952 Red Skies of Montana
1951 Elopement
1951 Gruen Guild Theater
1951 People Will Talk
1951 The Frogmen
1951 The Fat Man
1951 Air Cadet
1951 Three Guys Named Mike
1951 The Company She Keeps
1950 Union Station
1950 Comanche Territory
1950 The Kid from Texas
