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Tom Lester is a Actor American born on 23 september 1938 at Laurel (USA)

Tom Lester

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Birth name Thomas William Lester
Nationality USA
Birth 23 september 1938 at Laurel (USA)
Death 20 april 2020 (at 81 years)

Thomas William "Tom" Lester (born September 23, 1938) is an American actor and evangelist. He is best known for his role as Eb Dawson, farmhand to Oliver Wendell Douglas (played by Eddie Albert) on the television series Green Acres, and he appeared in two feature animal films Gordy and Benji.

Biography

Lester was born in Laurel, Mississippi. A young boy in 1948, he became a Born-again Christian and became involved in the Baptist church. At that time, he said he thought the Lord's plan for his life would deliver him to Hollywood, California, to embark on an acting career. He discussed his plans and his dream of becoming an actor with his parents.

After he graduated from Laurel High School, he attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Biology. He also briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, but acting became his main interest. After college, he taught school in Purcell, Oklahoma, but he left for Los Angeles, California. In his early 20s, he attended the First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, California.

After Green Acres, Lester was typecast. He returned home to his parents in Laurel, Mississippi. On May 26, 2005, his Green Acres series' star and close friend Eddie Albert died. Lester was the only one of the four surviving Green Acres stars not to attend the funeral (the ones who did attend were Frank Cady, Sid Melton, and Mary Grace Canfield), even though Albert had once said that Lester was his best and closest friend on the show, and that they had kept in touch.

Usually with

Joe Camp
Joe Camp
(1 films)
Scott Spiegel
Scott Spiegel
(1 films)
Alvy Moore
Alvy Moore
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Tom Lester (6 films)

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Actor

Gordy
Gordy (1995)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about pigs, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Afemo Omilami, Tom Lester, Doug Stone, Ted Manson, Hamilton Camp, Frank Welker
Roles Cousin Jake
Rating38% 1.9173251.9173251.9173251.9173251.917325
A spunky piglet named Gordy lives a happy life on Meadow Brook Farm somewhere near Hope, Arkansas. Unfortunately, the farm's farmer has gone bankrupt, and thus must sell everything, starting with Gordy's family. Two men arrive in a truck to take Gordy's father, but Gordy is alerted of this by the farm's rooster. Gordy tries to stop his father from leaving by following the truck taking his father, but his father tells him to go home and look after the family. When Gordy returns he finds that his mother and siblings were taken in another truck while he pursued his father. Determined to locate his family and return to the farm, Gordy sets out alone to find them. He eventually ends up in the care of Jinnie Sue MacAllister, a young country singer who lives in a camper van with her also country singer father, Luke, and their "manager", Cousin Jake. Jinnie Sue, not knowing Gordy's name, calls him Pinky.
Pistol: The Birth of a Legend, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Millie Perkins, Tom Lester
Roles Pete as adult
Rating67% 3.3947953.3947953.3947953.3947953.394795
L'histoire du grand joueur de basket « Pistol » Pete Maravich quand il avait 13/14 ans (Eight grade). Il joue dans l'équipe de basket du lycée Daniel mais rencontre des difficultés à cause de sa façon de jouer. Le seul soutient qu'il a lui vient de son père, l'ancien joueur pro de basketball, Press Maravich.
Pistol: The Birth of a Legend, 1h44
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Millie Perkins, John Richardson, Tom Lester
Roles Pete as adult
Rating67% 3.3947953.3947953.3947953.3947953.394795
The film shows 5-foot-2-inch (1.57 m) Maravich's efforts to make the D. W. Daniel High School varsity team as an eighth grader as he deals with racially charged issues in the deep south of the 1950s. Press Maravich serves as his son's drill sergeant, motivator, coach and cheerleader.
Intruder
Intruder (1989)
, 1h23
Directed by Scott Spiegel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Actors Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks, Sam Raimi, Eugene Robert Glazer, Burr Steers, Ted Raimi
Roles Officer Mathews
Rating61% 3.052383.052383.052383.052383.05238
A supermarket closes and the workers begin restocking the shelves for the next day. Craig, the former boyfriend of cashier Jennifer, appears and the two have an argument. Worried for her friend, Linda presses her panic button. Co-owner Bill appears and a fight ensues. Craig escapes onto the shop floor, and the night crew set out to track him down while Jennifer calls the police. When Craig is found there is another scuffle; he is ejected from the building and disappears into the night.
Benji
Benji (1974)
, 1h25
Directed by Joe Camp
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Frances Bavier, Patsy Garrett, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Breck, Christopher Connelly, Tom Lester
Roles Riley
Rating61% 3.050593.050593.050593.050593.05059
Benji is a lovable stray dog who lives in a small Texas town where he has befriended many local people, each of whom calls him by a different name, but the people he likes best are two school-age children (Paul and Cindy) and their housekeeper, Mary. Paul and Cindy's father, however, doesn't want a dog around the place. One day Benji befriends a stray dog (presumably a Maltese) that Mary calls Tiffany, and the kids beg their father to allow them to keep her and Benji, but he refuses. Benji escorts Tiffany to his hide-out, an apparently abandoned house. Two people later break in and bring a kidnapped Paul and Cindy into the house. Benji rushes to "tell" George and Mary of the kids' whereabouts but is shooed out. He then grabs the ransom note, but it gets taken from him and poor Benji is a loss at what to do next. He follows two policemen into the station and gets locked in and seems doomed until he accidentally turns on the drive-through intercom and the policeman lets him out. He goes back to the old house and spots a failed try at writing the ransom note and an idea strikes him. He grabs the crumpled note but is grabbed by one of the kidnappers and Tiffany rushes out and bites him and gets a vicious kick in return (she is not killed but apparently injured). Benji races back to Mary the kids' Dad, but Linda beats him there. The rest is for you to see. Camp never revealed the plot to the press but rather spoke of the essence of the movie: "It's a love story about a dog struggling against the odds to accomplish something that most people would consider to be impossible; and it's the first film ever in which a dog actually acted and expressed emotion on the screen. He was more or less the three-dimensional character in the film and the people were more or less the props. The dialog is in the eyes of the dog." Many film critics stated that Benji deserved a Best Actor Oscar for his acting.