Sorrell Booke Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best known for his role as the corpulent, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis “Boss” Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
| Full Name | Sorrell Booke |
| Net Worth | $1.1 Million |
| Date Of Birth | January 4, 1930 |
| Died | February 11, 1994, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Height | 1.68 m |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Profession | Voice Actor |
| Education | Yale University, Columbia University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Miranda Knickerbocker |
| Children | Alexandra Booke, Nicholas Booke |
| Siblings | Fred Booke |
| Nicknames | Sorrell Booke, Booke, Sorrell |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0095368 |
| Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance In A Supporting Role By An Actor |
| Movies | Fail Safe, What’s Up, Doc?, Peopletoys, Bank Shot, Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Up the Down Staircase, Rock-a-Doodle, Joy House, The Other Side of Midnight, Black Like Me, Freaky Friday, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Iceman Cometh, Gone Are the Days!, Record City, A Fine Madness, The Manchu Eagle M… |
| TV Shows | The Dukes of Hazzard, The Dukes, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II |
| Star Sign | Capricorn |
| Fact | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Close friend of James Best. |
| 2 | Ex-wife, Miranda, is the daughter of Hubert Renfro (H.R.) Knickerbocker (1898-1949), a Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent. |
| 3 | According to John Schneider in the DVD commentary for the first episode of “The Dukes Of Hazzard”, Sorrell could speak fluent Japanese. He recounts that in one episode, Booke and guest star Andrew Robinson, who also spoke Japanese, played a trick on James Best (Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltrane) where they spoke all of their dialog in a scene in Japanese, thus leaving Best confused. |
| 4 | Was only slightly overweight and had to wear a fat suit to play Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard, making him five feet around. |
| 5 | Has two children: Alexandra and Nicholas |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Manhunter | 1974 | TV Series | |
| Bank Shot | 1974 | Al G. Karp | |
| Devil Times Five | 1974 | Harvey Beckman | |
| The Take | 1974 | Oscar | |
| The Last Angry Man | 1974 | TV Movie | Dr. Max Vogel |
| Dr. Max | 1974 | TV Movie | Dr. Scott Herndon |
| The New Dick Van Dyke Show | 1973-1974 | TV Series | Herbie Vincent / Otto |
| Kung Fu | 1974 | TV Series | Sheriff Hodges |
| The Iceman Cometh | 1973 | Hugo Kalmar | |
| The New Perry Mason | 1973 | TV Series | Milo Vernon |
| Young Dr. Kildare | 1973 | TV Series | |
| Alias Smith and Jones | 1972 | TV Series | Conrad Meyer Zulick |
| Gunsmoke | 1972 | TV Series | Gerald Pandy |
| The New Temperatures Rising Show | 1972 | TV Series | Harry |
| M*A*S*H | 1972 | TV Series | Gen. Wilson Spaulding Barker |
| The Manhunter | 1972 | TV Movie | Carl Auscher |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | Lionel Merble | |
| What’s Up, Doc? | 1972 | Harry | |
| Adventures of Nick Carter | 1972 | TV Movie | Dr. Zimmerman |
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | 1971-1972 | TV Series | Herman Daden / Murray Gale |
| Cannon | 1971 | TV Series | Leon |
| The F.B.I. | 1971 | TV Series | Chip Tyler |
| Room 222 | 1971 | TV Series | Mr. Bomberg |
| Hawaii Five-O | 1970 | TV Series | Dr. Sam Berman |
| CBS Playhouse | 1969 | TV Series | Timmons |
| The Wild Wild West | 1968 | TV Series | Heisel |
| Ironside | 1968 | TV Series | Arthur Justin |
| Bye Bye Braverman | 1968 | Holly Levine | |
| Matchless | 1967 | Colonel Coolpepper | |
| Up the Down Staircase | 1967 | Dr. Bester | |
| Mission: Impossible | 1967 | TV Series | Peter Kiri |
| The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | 1967 | TV Series | Sydney Morehouse |
| The Borgia Stick | 1967 | TV Movie | Alton |
| T.H.E. Cat | 1966 | TV Series | William Smith |
| Preview Tonight | 1966 | TV Series | Baker |
| A Fine Madness | 1966 | Leonard Tupperman | |
| New York Television Theatre | 1965-1966 | TV Series | He (segment: “Bedlam Galore for Two or More”) |
| Dr. Kildare | 1963-1965 | TV Series | MacAllister Thane / Julius Orloff |
| Slattery’s People | 1965 | TV Series | Max Rice |
| 12 O’Clock High | 1965 | TV Series | Sgt. Herschel Aronson |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Larry Gorman / Sid Jarman |
| Barnaby | 1965 | TV Movie | W.C. Fields |
| The Patty Duke Show | 1964 | TV Series | Gilbert Tugwell |
| Fail-Safe | 1964 | Congressman Raskob | |
| Joy House | 1964 | Harry | |
| Black Like Me | 1964 | Dr. Jackson | |
| Look Up and Live | 1964 | TV Series | Torte / Tobit |
| The Great Adventure | 1964 | TV Series | E.W. Ross |
| NBC Children’s Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Sheriff of Nottingham |
| Chronicle | 1963 | TV Series | |
| Gone Are the Days! | 1963 | Ol’ Cap’, Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee | |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1963 | TV Series | Jake Resnick |
| Naked City | 1960-1963 | TV Series | Fentus / Mr. Leventhal / Detective / … |
| The Doctors and the Nurses | 1962 | TV Series | Adler |
| Route 66 | 1962 | TV Series | Sam Frazier |
| The Defenders | 1962 | TV Series | Prosecutor |
| The Catholic Hour | 1962 | TV Series | |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1962 | TV Series | Mr. Olivera |
| Car 54, Where Are You? | 1962 | TV Series | Police Commissioner Harper |
| Victoria Regina | 1961 | TV Movie | James |
| The Million Dollar Incident | 1961 | TV Movie | Press agent |
| Cry Vengeance! | 1961 | TV Movie | Doctor |
| Play of the Week | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Hugo |
| The Iceman Cometh | 1960 | TV Movie | Hugo |
| Brenner | 1959 | TV Series | Max Pappas |
| Omnibus | 1957 | TV Series | Mr. Brillby |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1957 | TV Series | Baratender |
| Producers’ Showcase | 1957 | TV Series | |
| Guiding Light | 1952 | TV Series | Dist. Atty. Ira Newton (1969) |
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers | 1994 | TV Series | Sheriff Hebbs |
| Bonkers | 1993 | TV Series | Boss Hoss |
| Civil Wars | 1993 | TV Series | Charles Previn |
| Tom & Jerry Kids Show | 1990-1993 | TV Series | Announcer |
| Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation | 1992 | Video | Big Daddy Boo (voice) |
| Capitol Critters | 1992 | TV Series | |
| Rock-A-Doodle | 1991 | Pinky – The Manager (voice) | |
| The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda | 1990 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Gravedale High | 1990 | TV Series voice | |
| Fantastic Max | 1988-1989 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Full House | 1988 | TV Series | Lionel |
| The Smurfs | 1988 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Yogi & the Invasion of the Space Bears | 1988 | TV Movie | Mountain Bear (voice) |
| Pound Puppies | 1987 | TV Series | Officer Edgar |
| Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | 1987 | TV Movie | Sheriff Rufus Buzby / T.J. Buzby (voice) |
| Blacke’s Magic | 1986 | TV Series | Karkin |
| You Again? | 1986 | TV Series | Roger Davidson |
| Crazy Like a Fox | 1986 | TV Series | Bernard ‘Bernie’ Sinclair |
| Newhart | 1985 | TV Series | Sheik Fraser |
| The Pound Puppies | 1985 | TV Movie | Mayor Fist aka The Mayor (voice) |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | 1979-1985 | TV Series | Boss Hogg Abraham Lincoln Hogg |
| Alice | 1983 | TV Series | Jefferson Davis ‘Boss’ Hogg |
| The Love Boat | 1980 | TV Series | Lucius Kergo |
| Bigfoot and Wildboy | 1979 | TV Series | |
| Greatest Heroes of the Bible | 1978 | TV Series | |
| What’s Happening!! | 1978 | TV Series | Mr. Finley |
| The Rockford Files | 1978 | TV Series | Wade G. Ward |
| Soap | 1978 | TV Series | Charles Lefkowitz |
| The Cat from Outer Space | 1978 | Presiding Judge (uncredited) | |
| Record City | 1978 | Coznowski | |
| Good Times | 1978 | TV Series | Mr. Galbraith |
| Little House on the Prairie | 1978 | TV Series | Mr. Watson |
| Once Upon a Brothers Grimm | 1977 | TV Movie | King of Hesse |
| All in the Family | 1972-1977 | TV Series | Joseph Sanders / Mr. Bennett |
| The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened | 1977 | TV Movie | Samuelson |
| The Other Side of Midnight | 1977 | Lanchon | |
| Columbo | 1974-1977 | TV Series | Bertie Hastings / J.J. Stringer |
| Kingston: Confidential | 1977 | TV Series | Lloyd Harwin |
| The Amazing Howard Hughes | 1977 | TV Movie | Fiorello LaGuardia |
| Black Sheep Squadron | 1977 | TV Series | Father Phillipe |
| Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | 1977 | TV Series | Rabbi Weintraub |
| Hunter | 1977 | TV Series | Mervyn |
| Freaky Friday | 1976 | Mr. Dilk | |
| Rich Man, Poor Man – Book II | 1976 | TV Series | Phil Greenberg |
| The Bob Newhart Show | 1976 | TV Series | Mr. Perlmutter |
| Special Delivery | 1976 | Hubert Zane | |
| Brenda Starr | 1976 | TV Movie | A.J. Livwright |
| Harry O | 1976 | TV Series | Edward Tabor |
| Mastermind | 1976 | Max Engstrom | |
| On the Rocks | 1975 | TV Series | Judge Arnold Davis |
| Joe and Sons | 1975 | TV Series | Mo Molonaire |
| The Streets of San Francisco | 1975 | TV Series | Quincy Lloyd |
| The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | 1975 | Dr. Melon | |
| Adventures of the Queen | 1975 | TV Movie | Robert Dwight |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1975 | TV Series | Mr. Eddy |
| Archer | 1975 | TV Series | Leo Berkowitz |
| The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | 1974-1975 | TV Mini-Series | Cochin |
| Police Story | 1975 | TV Series | Herbie |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dukes of Hazzard | 1983-1985 | TV Series 4 episodes |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! | 1997 | TV Movie in loving memory – as Sorrel Booke |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
| Password Plus | 1981 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Midnight Special | 1981 | TV Series | Himself |
| Kraft Salutes Disneyland’s 25th Anniversary | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
| All-Star Family Feud Special | 1979 | TV Series | Himself – Celebrity Contestant |
| Family Feud | 1976 | TV Series | Himself – Contestant / Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color | 1982 | TV Series | Principal Dilk / Presiding Judge |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor | Dr. Kildare (1961) |