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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 9, 1994                   TAG: 9401090090
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

ACTOR PAT BUTTRAM, 78, DIES

Pat Buttram, singing cowboy Gene Autry's sidekick in the 1950s and the annoying Mr. Haney on the sitcom "Green Acres," died Saturday. He was 78.

He died of kidney failure at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, said radio executive Bill Ward, a longtime friend.

From 1965 to 1971 Buttram played Mr. Haney on CBS' "Green Acres." Haney was the irritating country con man who sold a tumbledown farm to Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor).

Playing under his own name on "The Gene Autry Show" from 1950 to 1956 on CBS-TV, Buttram helped Autry and his horse Champion keep peace out West. - Associated Press 


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