Don DeFore

Donald John Don DeFore was an American film, radio, and television actor. DeFore is best known as Erskin Thorny Thornberry, the Nelson familys neighbor on the long running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and as George Mr. B. Baxter on the 1960s sitcom Hazel.

DeFore was one of seven children born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Joseph Ervin, a railroad engineer who worked at the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company and was also a local politician, and Albina Sylvia DeFore . DeFores mother, who occasionally directed plays at their local church, was of Czechoslovakian descent. After graduating from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, DeFore attended the University of Iowa. He initially studied law while also playing basketball, track, and baseball before becoming interested in acting. Since acting was not a major study at the university, he left and enrolled at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he won a scholarship and stayed for three years.

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