Bobby Buntrock was an American

United States

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 child actor

Child actor

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. Buntrock is best known for playing the character of Harold Baxter ("Sport") on the 1960s sitcom

Situation comedy

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 Hazel

Hazel (TV series)

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Biography

Born in Denver, Colorado

Colorado

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, Buntrock made his first onscreen appearance in an episode of Wagon Train

Wagon Train

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. He was in the first Rock'em Sock'em Robots toy commercial in 1964 for Louis Marx and Company

Louis Marx and Company

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 aka Marx Toy Company. He appeared on Hazel, starring Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth

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, throughout the five-year run of the series, first on NBC

NBC

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 with Don DeFore

Don DeFore

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 and Whitney Blake

Whitney Blake

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 in the role of his parents, George and Dorothy Baxter. In the last season on CBS

CBS

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, he lived with his Uncle Steve Baxter and Aunt Barbara, played by Ray Fulmer

Ray Fulmer

Raymond Stover Fulmer, known as Ray Fulmer , is a former actor, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his role as Steve Baxter in the final season of Shirley Booth's situation comedy Hazel, which aired on CBS television from September 13, 1965, to April 11, 1966.Fulmer first...

, and Lynn Borden

Lynn Borden

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, respectively, after DeFore and Blake left the series.

In addition to his role on Hazel, he also had roles on Burke's Law

Burke's Law

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, and Mister Ed

Mister Ed

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. He made his last onscreen appearance in 1967 on The Virginian

The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...

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Bobby Buntrock died in April 1974 at the age of 21 in an automobile accident. The accident occurred at nearly the exact spot his mother died in an automobile accident a year earlier.

Filmography

Television
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1959	Wagon Train	Bo	1 episode
1961	Mister Ed	Small Boy	1 episode
1961–1966	Hazel	Harold Baxter	41 episodes
1963	Burke's Law	Scout Hendricks	1 episode
1963–1967	The Virginian	Andrew Tim Bates Tim Messinger	3 episodes

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