Celebrity Fan Page in Honor of:
Byron Foulger
(1899-1970)
a familiar face

Petticoat Junction cast photo, season six (1968-1969) Back Row: Byron Foulger, Lori Saunders, Linda Kaye Henning, Mike Minor, Frank Cady Front Row: Edgar Buchanan, Higgins, June Lockhart, Meredith MacRae (Source: Petticoat Junction)
 He began performing with stock and repertory companies after graduating from the University of Utah.  He met his future wife, Dorothy Adams, [as a member of Moroni Olsen's very successful company].  After Broadway work, they moved to Hollywood in the 30s to try to stake a claim in films and both succeeded, appearing in hundreds of films, both together and apart, albeit in small, often unbilled bits.  A man of meek, edgy countenance, his short stature and squinty stare could be used for playing both humble and shady fellows.  Although predominantly employed as an owlish storekeeper, mortician, professor, or bank teller, his better parts had darker intentions - exceptional as weasly, mealy-mouthed, whining henchmen who would inevitably show their yellow streak by the film's end.  He moved on into TV in the 50s and 60s, displaying a comedy side in many folksy, rural sitcoms.  He died of heart problems in 1970.
(Source: Gary Brumburgh, IMDB)
News and Gossip
In the 1959 Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance," Gig Young comments that he thinks he's seen drugstore counterman Byron Foulger before.  "I've got that kind of face" was the counterman's reply.  Indeed, Foulger's mustachioed, bespectacled, tremble-chinned, moon-shaped countenance was one of the most familiar faces ever to grace the screen.
(Source: Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide, as quoted by the New York Times)

In real life, the seemingly timorous actor was not very easily cowed; according to his friend Victor Jory, Foulger once threatened to punch out Errol Flynn at a party because he thought that Flynn was flirting with his wife.
(Source: Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide, as quoted by the New York Times)

He has two children named Amanda and Rachel
(Source: IMDB)

He appeared in 22 films in 1945 alone.
(Source: What a Character)

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Photos


Byron Foulger as Mr. Melvin in the episode of "Green Acres" called "You Ought to Be in Pictures," image recorded from TV, 1966 (Source: TV Tome)

Mr. Guerney (Byron Foulger, right) is shocked when Doc Stuart (Regis Toomy) informs him that Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) is his new medical assistant, during an episode of Petticoat Junction, titled, "The Lady Doctor" (1965).  The episode marks Miss Lockhart's first appearance on the series as a special guest star.  (Source: Petticoat Junction)

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Links
Internet Movie Database
TV Tome
What a Character
The official Petticoat Junction website by Dave Stein
Great Character Actors
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