Buford T. Justice

Sheriff Buford T. Justice was the character played by Jackie Gleason in the movies Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. As a foul mouthed Texas county sheriff, he chased the Bandit, played by Burt Reynolds across country on several occassions. According to Smokey and the Bandit II, he had two brothers, Gaylord Justice and Reginald Van Justice. He also had an idiot son whom he only called Junior. Buford T. Justice is ...

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Sheriff is both a political and a legal office held under English common law, Scots law or U.S. common law, or the person who holds such office. Sheriff - Modern usage. Sheriff - Australia. The office of Sheriff was first established in Australia in 1824. This was simultaneous with the appointment of the first Chief Justice of New South Wales. The role of the Sheriff has not been static, nor is it identical in each Australian State. In the past his duties included; executing cou ...

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• Sheriff - Modern usage
• Sheriff - Australia
• Sheriff - Canada
• Sheriff - India
• Sheriff - United Kingdom
• Sheriff - United States
• Sheriff - History
• Sheriff - Famous American Sheriffs
• Sheriff - Fictional American sheriffs
• Sheriff - Other uses

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But by far his most popular character with his audience was blustery bus driver Ralph Kramden, who lived with his tart but tenderhearted wife, Alice, in a two-room Brooklyn walkup, one apartment beneath his best friend, sense-challenged sewer worker Ed Norton ("The first time I took the test for the sewer I flunked---I couldn't even float!") and his likewise tart wife, Trixie. Partially inspired by the earlier radio hit The Bickersons and largely drawn from Gleason's harsh Brooklyn childhood ("Every neighbourhood in Brooklyn had its R ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Sheriff - Australia. The office of Sheriff was first established in Australia in 1824. This was simultaneous with the appointment of the first Chief Justice of New South Wales. The role of the Sheriff has not been static, nor is it identical in each Australian State. In the past his duties included; executing court judgments, acting as a coroner, the transportation of prisoners, managing the gaols, and carrying out executions (through the employment of an anonymous hangman). Currently, the criminal law of no Aust ...

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Sheriff, Sheriff - History, Sheriff - Modern usage, Sheriff - Australia, Sheriff - Canada, Sheriff - India, Sheriff - United Kingdom, Sheriff - United States, Sheriff - Famous American Sheriffs, Sheriff - Fictional American sheriffs, Sheriff - Other uses

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Sheriff - Australia. The office of Sheriff was first established in Australia in 1824. This was simultaneous with the appointment of the first Chief Justice of New South Wales. The role of the Sheriff has not been static, nor is it identical in each Australian State. In the past his duties included; executing court judgments, acting as a coroner, the transportation of prisoners, managing the gaols, and carrying out executions (through the employment of an anonymous hangman). Currently, the criminal law of no Aust ...

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Sheriff, Sheriff - Modern usage, Sheriff - Australia, Sheriff - Canada, Sheriff - India, Sheriff - United Kingdom, Sheriff - United States, Sheriff - History, Sheriff - Famous American Sheriffs, Sheriff - Fictional American sheriffs, Sheriff - Other uses

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Nothing in Common proved to be Gleason's final film role. While he made the film, he was already fighting colon and liver cancer. He was hospitalised at one point in 1986-87 but checked himself out and died quietly at his Inverrary, Florida home 24 June 1987. He was 71 years old. In the year of his death, Miami Beach honoured his contributions to the city and its tourism by renaming the Miami Beach Auditorium---where he had performed The Jackie Gleason Show li ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Like the word sheriff itself, the office of sheriff has an interesting history. In Anglo-Saxon England, a reeve was an officer who was appointed by the king to be responsible for the public business of the locality. A high-ranking official, the shire-reeve was the representative of the royal authority in a shire or county. The office of sheriff was continued after the Norman conquest, then known as a viscount. The office eventually returned to the title "Sheriff", and "Viscount" became an inherited title of nobility. The most famous holder of this office was the folkloric Sheriff ...

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Sheriff, Sheriff - History, Sheriff - Modern usage, Sheriff - Australia, Sheriff - Canada, Sheriff - India, Sheriff - United Kingdom, Sheriff - United States, Sheriff - Famous American Sheriffs, Sheriff - Fictional American sheriffs, Sheriff - Other uses

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After leaving CBS in 1970, Gleason and Carney appeared in several Honeymooners specials on ABC during the 1970s, and a made-for-television movie, Izzy and Moe. In 1985, three decades after the debut of the filmed Honeymooners, Gleason revealed that he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use. These "Lost Episodes," as they came to be called, first aired on the Showtime cable network in 1986 and later were syndicated to local TV stations. Some of them include what amount to rough drafts of what became better-developed Classic 39 themes, but they prove ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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On June 30, 1988, the Sunset Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in honor of the native Brooklynite. (Ralph Kramden, of course, worked for the fictional Gotham Bus Company.) A statue of Gleason as Ralph in his bus driver's uniform was dedicated in August, 2000 in New York City, by the cable TV channel TV Land. The statue is located at 40th Street and 8th Avenue, at the entrance of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bus terminal. Another such statue stands at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in North Hollywood, California, showing Gleaso ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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At first, "The Honeymooners" musicals helped push The Jackie Gleason Show back into the top five in the ratings. Millions of Americans whose parents had enjoyed the original 1950s show now got to hear Gleason end each Saturday night---done live---with, "As always, the Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!" But even that audience began aging and the show aged with it. The ratings began to dip as "The Honeymooners" now completely dominated the show, and Gleason and CBS---which had signed him to a big-money deal in ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Gleason grew up as an only child, abandoned by his father (probably the reason he never mentioned Ralph Kramden having a father on The Honeymooners) and raised by his loving, but work-worn and troubled mother, who died when he was around 16. Gleason first gained recognition in the Broadway play Follow the Girls. He simultaneously appeared in small parts in such films as Springtime in the Rockies, Orchestra Wives (as a swing band bassist---the band itself was played by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, in Miller's final film project before joining the Army Air Force), and Navy Blues, but he di ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Like the word sheriff itself, the office of sheriff has an interesting history. In Anglo-Saxon England, a reeve was an officer who was appointed by the king to be responsible for the public business of the locality. A high-ranking official, the shire-reeve was the representative of the royal authority in a shire or county. The office of sheriff was continued after the Norman conquest, then known as a viscount. The office eventually returned to the title "Sheriff", and "Viscount" became an inherited title of nobility. The most famous holder of this office was the folkloric Sheriff ...

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Sheriff, Sheriff - Modern usage, Sheriff - Australia, Sheriff - Canada, Sheriff - India, Sheriff - United Kingdom, Sheriff - United States, Sheriff - History, Sheriff - Famous American Sheriffs, Sheriff - Fictional American sheriffs, Sheriff - Other uses

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Gleason was hired as the host of DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars and he fashioned a variety hour balanced between glitzy entertainment and his surprising comic versatility. He became one of the few major hits DuMont would enjoy from 1950 to 1952, with some thinking he had a chance to pry the "Mr. Television" title from Milton Berle. With splashy dance numbers framing the show, Gleason began to develop sketch characters that would stay with him for many years, and in 1952 he accepted a big offer to move his extravaganza---renamed The Jackie Gleason Show---to CBS, where he became the nation's number two h ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Throughout the 1950s and early '60s, Gleason enjoyed a secondary career in recorded music, lending his name to a series of best-selling "mood music" albums for Capitol Records. Like the Beatles and many other songwriters of the following decade, Gleason could not read or write music in a conventional sense; he composed melodies in his head and transposed them with the help of an able staff. (He did likewise with the well-remembered themes of both The Jackie Gleason Show and the Classic 39.) There has been some controversy over the years as to how much credit ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Gleason restored his original variety hour---including "The Honeymooners"---in 1956, but within three years Carney had departed and the show had begun to lose its energy. Gleason experimented with a game show, You're in the Picture, which survived its only episode only because of Gleason's hilarious on-the-air apology in the following week's time slot. In 1962, however, he had resurrected his variety show with a little more splashiness (the June Taylor Dancers' routines became more elaborately choreographed and costumed than before) a ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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Gleason had a dramatic side that the comic pathos of the Poor Soul hinted at often enough. He earned acclaim for live television drama performances in The Laugh Maker on CBS' Studio One (where he played a semi-autobiographical role as fictional TV comedian Jerry Giles), and in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, also for CBS, as an episode of the legendary anthology Playhouse 90. But Gleason's greatest dramatic acclaim came for his portrayal of Minnesota Fats in the 1961 Paul Newman movie The Hustler, in whic ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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