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Signed " Buddy Ebsen" on personal stationary in black ink. Letter measures 6.25" x 9.50" and has normal mailing folds and staple holes in the top left corner, otherwise in NEAR FINE condition. The letter serves as a personal reference and recommendation for a position at the University of California, Los Angeles. The endorsement is for a Dr George Savage and is addressed to Colin Young who is the chairman of the Theater Arts Department. The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included as part of the sale. Buddy Ebsen, (Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr.), American actor, dancer, artist, and writer (born April 2, 1908, Belleville, Ill.?died July 6, 2003, Torrance, Calif.), began his career dancing with his younger sister, Vilma, in nightclubs, in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in a movie before going it alone in a number of musicals. Originally cast as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, he was reassigned the part of the Tin Man but could not remain in that role because he developed a reaction to the makeup. Ebsen?s greatest fame came from his television roles, however, from sidekick Georgie in Walt Disney?s Davy Crockett series in 1954?55 to patriarch Jed Clampett in the hit sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962?71) to the title character in the detective series Barnaby Jones (1973?80). He also appeared in numerous films and other TV series and wrote songs, plays, and books. Colin Young CBE (born Glasgow, 1927) is a former British film educator, chairman of the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, founder of the film program at Rice University, Houston, Texas, and the first director of the British National Film and Television School. He was awarded a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honor of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in 1993. GEORGE SAVAGE, Born in Tacoma, WA on April 25, 1904, died January 1977. His father, was George Milton Savage, originally of Albert Lea, Minnesota. Playwright and professor of English at UW from 1935 until 1951 and at UCLA from 1951 until his retirement in 1971, after which he returned to Seattle. Savage taught playwriting and founded the Tryout Theater in 1943. He also wrote under the psuedonym Kerry Fairfax and collaborated on plays with his son, George Savage, Jr (III). George Milton Savage died in January 1977. The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included in the sale. Seller Inventory # 002843
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