Bud Osborne

Leonard Miles "Bud" Osborne (July 20, 1884 – February 2, 1964) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.^[1]

Biography

Osborne was born Miles Osborne in Knox County, Texas, on February 20, 1884.^[2] Osborne attended Oklahoma City schools and was a rancher in Oklahoma's Indian Territory before he became an entertainer. After working with the 101 Ranch Show for five years, he worked with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show for one year in 1912. He became a member of Thomas H. Ince's film company in 1915.^[1]

Osborne specialized in westerns, and was also noted for his skill as a stagecoach driver, and was thus much in demand from his first film in 1912 right through the early 1950s. He was working as a stunt man as late as 1948 (at age 64) in Ray Enright's Return of the Bad Men.

Because Bud Osborne worked in westerns almost exclusively, perhaps his most unusual role was that of a big-game hunter in

Bud Osborne kept working into his seventies, playing small character parts in such television western series as Have Gun – Will Travel, Bonanza, Bat Masterson, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Rawhide and The Lone Ranger. His last role was in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1963. His career spanned 51 years, with a total of nearly 700 films and television episodes to his credit.

Osborne died in

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