Bruce Yarnell
Bruce Yarnell | |
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.JPG) Yarnell in Outlaws, 1961 | |
| Born | Bruce Patane Altomari Yarnell December 28, 1935 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 1973 (aged 37) |
Cause of death | Airplane crash |
Burial place | San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, U.S. 34°16′26″N 118°27′52″W / 34.2739557°N 118.4643770°W |
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| Spouses | Frances Chadwick
(m. 1957; div. 1971)Joan Patenaude (m. 1972) |
| Children | 3[1] |
| Family | Lorene Yarnell (sister) |
Bruce Patane Altomari Yarnell[1] (December 28, 1935 – November 30, 1973) was an American actor and singer.[2][3] He was best known for playing in the final season of the American western television series Outlaws.[1] As a baritone,[2] he performed in musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Bye Bye Birdie, Carousel, and Oklahoma!.
Life and career
[edit]Yarnell was born in Pasadena, California, the son of Marie and Harold, a police officer.[1][2] He was the older brother of dancer and actress Lorene Yarnell.[3] He studied opera and later sang at the Earl Carroll Theatre in Los Angeles.[1] He also sang in Reno, Nevada, where he was later joined by the Mormon Choir in numerous musical productions.[1] Yarnell made his theatre debut in 1960 on Broadway, in Camelot as Sir Lionel.[4]
His screen career began soon afterwards, when he joined the cast of the NBC western television series Outlaws in 1961, for its final season, playing Deputy Marshal Chalk Breeson.[1] That same year, he starred in the Broadway musical The Happiest Girl in the World as General Kinesias, for which he won the 1961 Theatre World Award.[4] He continued to appear in films and television programs including Irma la Douce (1963), Bonanza (1964–1965), and Hogan's Heroes (1965).[1][5] He also starred as Billy Bigelow in the 1966 New York City Center Light Opera Company production of Carousel,[6] as Frank E. Butler in the same year's Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun,[4] as Curly McLain in the 1969 Little Theatre's production of Oklahoma! – both at the New York State Theater; and as Matt Reedy in the 1968 action film The Road Hustlers.[1][2][7]
Yarnell later played leading roles at the San Francisco Opera House.[1] His last credit was in a tour of Bye Bye Birdie at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in November 1973.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Yarnell's first wife was Frances Chadwick, a model; the two married on May 25, 1957.[1] They divorced in March 1971 after having three daughters: Heather, Therese and Waverly.[1][2] He then married Joan Patenaude, a soprano, on July 15, 1972.[1]
Death
[edit]Yarnell was a pilot and flew himself to his engagements.[8] In the night of November 30, 1973, Yarnell was piloting a single-engine plane from San Francisco to Hollywood Burbank Airport and crashed into a mountain slope near Gorman, California, northwest of Los Angeles.[1][2] He died with his two passengers, Terri and David Wirsching, a police officer from Burbank.[1][2] His last message was that he had electrical power problems and became disoriented.[1] Yarnell was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery.[1]
Legacy
[edit]In 1979, Yarnell's second wife, Joan, created an award called the "Bruce Yarnell Memorial Award", given by Opera Philadelphia to an outstanding baritone, bass-baritone or bass.[9]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Aaker, Everett (May 25, 2017). Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. pp. 450–451. ISBN 978-1-4766-6250-3 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Yarnell, a Singer, is Killed in Crash". The New York Times. December 3, 1973. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- 1 2 "Singer, Two Others Die in Plane Crash". Los Angeles Times. December 2, 1973. p. 26. Retrieved October 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 "Bruce Yarnell". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- ↑ Royce, Brenda (December 10, 2013). Hogan's Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13. St. Martin Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-4668-5957-9 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Hischak, Thomas (2007). The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-313-34140-3 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Hollow, Tey (August 18, 1968). "Yarnell Casts Holloway In Straight-Man Role". The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. p. 39. Retrieved October 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Horne, Marilyn; Appleton, Jane (1983). MarilynHorne, my life. Internet Archive. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-11401-4.
- ↑ Ericson, Raymond (December 16, 1979). "Music Notes: The Pro Arte Story". The New York Times. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
External links
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- Bruce Yarnell at IMDb
- Bruce Yarnell at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
- Bruce Yarnell at the Internet Broadway Database
- Bruce Yarnell at Rotten Tomatoes
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- American baritones
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- American male musical theatre actors
- American male stage actors
- American male television actors
- Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
- Burials at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
- Male actors from Pasadena, California
- Musicians from Pasadena, California
- Musicians killed in aviation accidents or incidents
- Singers from California
- Theatre World Award winners
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1973
- Western (genre) television actors