Tom Lester is dead to me!

Darling I loved him, but give me Park Overall.

He was a major Jesus freak. Spent the rest of his life after PJ performing for the Lord. Sad though. He had major BDF.

Good Christian boy or gay as a goose? You decide!

Oh my God you mean Arnold the pig is dead?

^There was an open casket at Arnold's funeral

He was cute.

R5 that is very funny but now I’m hungry!

I'm getting a family ping

He should have posed nude.

He married so very late in life. He must have been waiting to meet the right woman. Or perhaps he had no time for marriage given his busy career as an actor and preaching. A fine looking young man when he appeared on GA. When I was a youngster I imagined that if I was his neighbor in Hooterville, we would spend quality time up in the barn's hayloft.

This was the statement from Arnold Ziffel, just posted in Variety:

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I doubt if Arnold really said any of that. Everyone knows that they couldn't stand each other and probably hadn't spoken in decades.

RIP, Eb.

I loved "Green Acres." Like "Petticoat Junction," it was set in Hooterville, but occupied an entirely different universe, in which characters would notice and comment on the opening credits. "Oliver! Vat is dat backvards writing in the air?"

I loved Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. RIP Eb.

Lisa in a hot-air ballon, with a megaphone, at the opening of hunting season: "Run for your lives!! Zey are com-ming to shoost you!! Run for your lives!!"

Tom Lester, 81

He was highly educated but appeared as a country bumpkin on TV shows.

He was "highly educated" in Mississippi, in the 1960's...Let's not get carried away...

He was only married once and had no children.

^^And I say that as someone whose paternal grandmother was born and raised in Laurel, MS, hometown of our boy here.

I always thought he was hot, and watched the show faithfully hoping he'd get into a swim suit or something.

He never did, but GA was actually very entertaining. I loved Mr. Haney, who had earlier appeared on an Alfred Hitchcock (or one of those TV drama series) as a man who killed his young wife and then put her head inside a glass bubble for the neighbors to sit and watch.

It was her punishment for having broken the first bubble. Or something.

[quore]He was "highly educated" in Mississippi, in the 1960's...Let's not get carried away...

So what. 1960s educational system as a whole was far superior than what has passed for education of the past 40 years. Hell, most MBAs can't even use proper grammar much less express an original thought.

MBAs are not "highly educated" -They have business expertise. That's not the same has having studied literature, history, art, etc. The flood of MBAs during the Reagan years led directly to the financial meltdown of 2008. Profits are the only thing that mattered to them -No ethics whatsoever.

All I was getting at r23 was that post 60s education wasn't as good. All of the hedonism and distractions aplenty be they positive or negative took away from that.

Has Babe Paley dared to make a comment?

And now he belongs to the ages.

Only on DL would a thread on Eb from "Green Acres" pivot into a debate on higher education in the 1960s.

Someone tell Mr. Douglas his son is dead!

As a child gay I thought he was hawt. The tall lanky type with the boyish face.

Mary Grace Canfield as Ralph Monroe.

Has Susan Dey sent her condolences yet?

In the early 1960s Lester performed in a play with CBS producer Paul Henning's daughter Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo Bradley of Petticoat Junction), and Lester soon found himself auditioning for the role of Eb Dawson on Green Acres. Lester beat 400 other actors to play the character after a screen test.

He got the role because he was the only one who could milk a cow in real life since he grew up on a farm in Mississippi.

Any relation to Vicki Lester?

LOLOLOL ^^

One of my favorite DL responses of all time: The "Are You Related to Anybody Famous" Thread.

reply 1 "I am Mrs. Norman Maine!"

[quote] 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.

I'm glad to see he didn't use the typical crazy Christian line of "the Lord spoke to me and told me I belonged in Hollywood".

Oh, man. I just started watching Green Acres again as an adult. I used to watch it every afternoon in syndication as a kid but had NO idea what the FUCK was going on. Strange when you compare what Gen X kids watched in syndication during their youth (Lear comedies, Me TV shit) to what "Y and Z" watched.

What did they watch anyway? Probably some cable shows or something

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I loved him in Green Acres. But, then, I loved everyone in Green Acres. A show truly ahead of its time. It was the Arrested Development of its day. Beverly Hillbillies was terrific, too. Both remain wonderfully whacky and fun to this day.

The ONLY thing I liked about the tv show Green Acres was the opening theme song.

RIP. Green Acres was a great show, and he was very good in his role. But, OP, you should have said "Eb" in your headline, no one knows who "Tom Lester" is.

R20 is an IMPOSTOR!! MY paternal grandmother was born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi!!

It's always sad when America loses another evangelist.

LOL