Head ‘Hillbilly’ Buddy Ebsen dies aged 95 in LA

BUDDY EBSEN, the Broadway dancer who achieved stardom and riches in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, has died at the age of 95.

Ebsen died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital, after being admitted last month with an undisclosed illness.

If it hadn’t been for an allergy to aluminium paint, he would have been one of the Yellow Brick Road quartet in the classic Hollywood film The Wizard of Oz.