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- While Smiley was very young, the Burnett’s moved to Monticello, near Urbana. That happens to be the home of the University of Illinois where Smiley later in his life sold hot dogs at the football games.
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Just after filming wrapped for the fourth season of Petticoat Junction, Burnette became ill. [2] Burnett died on February 16, 1967 in Encino, California, from leukemia and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.
Smiley Burnette was a native of Illinois. In fact, he had never been west of the Illinois borders until he and Gene Autry came out to California to find out what Movies might have to offer two musicians/songwriters/singers.
In his later years, he was a part-time resident of Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield, he taped a radio program for RadiOzark Enterprises, and frequently appeared on the television program Jubilee USA. During one of his stays, he had his name legally changed to Smiley. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous.
- March 18, 1911
- February 16, 1967
- Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys.
- Smiley Burnette was a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously.
- Smiley Burnette's career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
- Smiley Burnette began singing as a child and learned to play a wide variety of instruments by ear, yet never learned to read or write music.
Smiley Burnette. Musician, Actor. Born Lester Alvin Burnett, in Summum, Illinois, he began his career at a local radio station and in Vaudeville Theatre. A talented musician, he played 100 instruments proficiently and worked with singer Gene Autry on the radio show The National Barn Dance.
Aug 19, 2009 · Interestingly, in real life, Smiley Burnette never owned a horse. While Smiley was very young, his family moved to Monticello, near Urbana. They lived next to musicians with access to many instruments.
Smiley Burnette. Actor: Galloping Thunder. Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance".
