Actor Buddy Ebsen, without realizing at the time, found himself at the center of the TV sitcoms landscape of the 1960s when he agreed to portray Jed Clampett in the television series The Beverly ...

In the pilot episode of this beloved rags-to-riches sitcom, hayseed mountaineer Jed Clampett becomes an overnight multimillionaire when an oil-rich swamp is discovered on his property. With his ...

The premise of The Beverly Hillbillies was pretty simple. Jed Clampett and his family left their monetary struggles behind in Missouri and moved to California after Jed shot a hole in the ground and ...

The Beverly Hillbillies was a hilarious show when it aired, and the funniest episodes still hold up even half a century later. Before The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, American sitcoms tended ...

Another hero has passed away. Loved by all, hated by none, the name of Buddy Ebsen will always bring a smile to our faces when we remember the television show, "The Beverly Hillbillies." It was not ...

"The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS in the fall of 1962, chronicling the misadventures of the Clampetts, a family from the Ozark mountains of Missouri who become suddenly wealthy when they ...

THIS was Buddy Ebsen's cause of deathHe was known for playing "Jed Clampett" in 'The Beverly Hillbillies' He was 95 Buddy Ebsen, a Hollywood luminary renowned for his versatility in acting and dancing ...