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Tom Lester, "Eb" on Green Acres, dies at 81
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-lester-dead-wide-eyed-farmhand-eb-dawson-green-acres-was-81-1290946
Tom Lester, the Wide-Eyed Farmhand Eb Dawson on 'Green Acres,' Dies at 81
12:04 PM PDT 4/20/2020 by Mike Barnes
On the way to becoming a doctor, the Mississippi native came to Hollywood and was hired for the 1965-71 CBS comedy.
Tom Lester, the gawky Mississippi native who starred as the friendly Hooterville farmhand Eb Dawson on the madcap CBS sitcom Green Acres, has died. He was 81.
Lester died Monday of complications from Parkinson's disease in the Nashville home of his fiancee and long-term caregiver, Jackie Peters, his family announced.
Inspired by Andy Griffith Show star Don Knotts — who like Lester did not come off as your typical leading man — Lester pursued a career as an actor after earning degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of Mississippi en route to becoming a doctor.
His friends told him, "'You’re crazy. You’ll never be able to do that,'" he recalled in an undated interview. "'You're too tall, too skinny, too ugly. You've got a Southern accent and you'll never make it in the motion picture business. You don't look like Rock Hudson.'"
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Tom Lester, the Wide-Eyed Farmhand Eb Dawson on 'Green Acres,' Dies at 81
12:04 PM PDT 4/20/2020 by Mike Barnes
On the way to becoming a doctor, the Mississippi native came to Hollywood and was hired for the 1965-71 CBS comedy.
Tom Lester, the gawky Mississippi native who starred as the friendly Hooterville farmhand Eb Dawson on the madcap CBS sitcom Green Acres, has died. He was 81.
Lester died Monday of complications from Parkinson's disease in the Nashville home of his fiancee and long-term caregiver, Jackie Peters, his family announced.
Inspired by Andy Griffith Show star Don Knotts — who like Lester did not come off as your typical leading man — Lester pursued a career as an actor after earning degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of Mississippi en route to becoming a doctor.
His friends told him, "'You’re crazy. You’ll never be able to do that,'" he recalled in an undated interview. "'You're too tall, too skinny, too ugly. You've got a Southern accent and you'll never make it in the motion picture business. You don't look like Rock Hudson.'"
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Cross gently Tom.
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Eb was my favorite character on Green Acres! Dang ....
RIP, Tom
I was about to post that when I saw your comment. He wasn't in that many scenes -- you had to C# to spot him. My mood will Bb for a while after this news.
Ol' Eb has modulated up a few octaves to join the choir invisible.
