Smiley Burnette
Born: 1911-03-18 in Summum, Illinois, USA
Died: 1967-02-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Smiley Burnette, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2000
- Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs as (archive footage)
1980
- Gay, Gay Hollywood as Self
1978
- Western von gestern as Frog Millhouse
1976
- It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as (archive footage)
1965
- Green Acres as Charley Pratt
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Charley Pratt
1953
- Saginaw Trail as Smiley
- On Top of Old Smoky as Smiley
- Winning of the West as Smiley
- Goldtown Ghost Riders as Smiley Burnette
- Pack Train as Smiley Burnette
1952
- Junction City as Smiley
- The Hawk of Wild River as Smiley Burnette
- Smoky Canyon as Smiley Burnette
- The Rough, Tough West as Smiley Burnette
- The Kid from Broken Gun as Smiley Burnette
- Laramie Mountains as Smiley Burnette
1951
- Bonanza Town as Smiley Burnette
- Cyclone Fury as Smiley Burnette
- Snake River Desperadoes as Smiley Burnette
- Whirlwind as Smiley Burnette
- Prairie Roundup as Smiley Burnette
- The Kid from Amarillo as Smiley Burnette
- Pecos River as Smiley Burnette
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Smiley Burnette
- Fort Savage Raiders as Smiley
1950
- Trail of the Rustlers as Smiley Burnette
- Outcasts of Black Mesa as Smiley
- Texas Dynamo as Smiley Burnette
- Across the Badlands as Smiley
- Streets of Ghost Town as Smiley Burnette
- Lightning Guns as Smiley Burnette
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Smiley
- Frontier Outpost as Smiley Burnette
1949
- Laramie as Smiley Burnette
- South of Death Valley as Self
- Bandits of El Dorado as Smiley Burnette
- Desert Vigilante as Smiley Burnette
- Challenge of the Range as Smiley Burnette
- Horsemen of the Sierras as Sheriff Smiley Burnette
- The Blazing Trail as Smiley Burnette
- Renegades of the Sage as Smiley
1948
- Blazing Across the Pecos as Marshal Smiley Burnette
- Quick on the Trigger as Smiley
- Trail to Laredo as Smiley Burnette
- West of Sonora as Smiley Burnette
- Six-Gun Law as Smiley
- Whirlwind Raiders as Smiley Burnette
- El Dorado Pass as Smiley
- Phantom Valley as Smiley Burnette
1947
- The Lone Hand Texan as Smiley Burnette
- South of the Chisholm Trail as Smiley Burnette
- Last Days of Boot Hill as Smiley Burnette
- Riders of the Lone Star as Smiley Burnette
- West of Dodge City as Smiley Burnette
- Law of the Canyon as Smiley Burnette
- The Stranger From Ponca City as Smiley Burnette
- Prairie Raiders as Smiley Burnette
- Buckaroo from Powder River as Smiley Burnette
1946
- The Desert Horseman as Smiley Burnette
- Galloping Thunder as Smiley Burnette
- Roaring Rangers as Smiley Burnette
- The Fighting Frontiersman as Smiley Burnette
- Heading West as Smiley Burnette
- Gunning for Vengeance as Smiley Burnette
- Landrush as Smiley Burnette
- Two-Fisted Stranger as Smiley Burnette
- Terror Trail as Smiley Burnette
1944
- Bordertown Trail as Frog Millhouse
- Pride of the Plains as Frog Millhouse
- Code of the Prairie as Frog
- Beneath Western Skies as Sheriff Frog Millhouse
- Firebrands of Arizona as Frog / Beefsteak Discoe
- The Laramie Trail as Frog
- Call of the Rockies as Frog Millhouse
1943
- Idaho as Frog Millhouse
- King of the Cowboys as Frog Millhouse
- Beyond the Last Frontier as Frog Millhouse
- Silver Spurs as Frog Millhouse
- Raiders of Sunset Pass as Frog Millhouse
1942
- Heart of the Rio Grande as Frog Millhouse
- Cowboy Serenade as Frog
- Heart of the Golden West as Frog
- Home in Wyomin' as Frog Millhouse
- Call of the Canyon as Frog Millhouse
- Stardust on the Sage as Frog
- Bells of Capistrano as Frog
1941
- Down Mexico Way as Frog
- The Singing Hill as Frog
- Under Fiesta Stars as Frog
- Sierra Sue as Frog Millhouse
- Sunset in Wyoming as Frog Millhouse
- Ridin' on a Rainbow as Frog
- Back in the Saddle as Frog Milhouse
1940
- Gaucho Serenade as Frog Millhouse
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride as Frog Millhouse
- Carolina Moon as Frog Millhouse
- Rancho Grande as Frog Millhouse
- Radio Ranch as Oscar (archive footage)
1939
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Voice of Felix the Dummy
- Mountain Rhythm as Frog Milhouse
- Blue Montana Skies as Frog Millhouse
- South of the Border as Frog
- Mexicali Rose as Frog Millhouse
- Rovin' Tumbleweeds as Frog Millhouse
- Home on the Prairie as Frog Millhouse
- In Old Monterey as Frog
- Colorado Sunset as Frog Millhouse
1938
- Billy The Kid Returns as Frog Millhouse
- Western Jamboree as Frog Millhouse
- Hollywood Stadium Mystery as Smiley Burnette
- Under Western Stars as Frog
- Prairie Moon as Frog Millhouse
- Man from Music Mountain as Frog Millhouse
- The Old Barn Dance as Frog Millhouse
- Rhythm of the Saddle as Frog Millhouse
- Gold Mine in the Sky as Frog
1937
- Dick Tracy as Mike McGurk
- Boots and Saddles as Frog
- Git Along Little Dogies as Frog Millhouse
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Frog - Accordian Player
- Meet the Boy Friend as Band Leader
- Public Cowboy No. 1 as Helen Morgan
- Springtime in the Rockies as Frog Millhouse
- Larceny on the Air as Jimmy
- Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm as Frog Milhouse
- Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge as Colonel Millhouse
- Round-Up Time in Texas as Frog Millhouse
1936
- Oh, Susanna as Frog Millhouse
- Red River Valley as Frog Millhouse
- The Old Corral as Deputy Frog
- Hearts in Bondage as Rammer
- The Big Show as Frog
- A Man Betrayed as Hillbilly
- Sharad of Atlantis as Briny Deep
- Guns and Guitars as Frog Millhouse
- Ride, Ranger, Ride as Frog Millhouse
- Doughnuts and Society as Mover #2
- The Singing Cowboy as Frog Millhouse
- Comin' 'Round the Mountain as Frog
- The Border Patrolman as Chuck Owens
1935
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds as Smiley
- The Phantom Empire as Oscar (as Lester 'Smiley' Burnett)
- Waterfront Lady as Musician
- The Kids in the Shoe as Singing little boy
- The Sagebrush Troubadour as Frog Millhouse
- The Singing Vagabond as Frog
- The Adventures of Rex and Rinty as Jensen
- Melody Trail as Frog Millhouse
- Harmony Lane as Singer (uncredited)
- Arizona Bad Man as Credits Singer
1934
- Mystery Mountain as Lake Teamster (ch's 6-7) (uncredited)
- In Old Santa Fe as Accordionist-Singer (uncredited)