Don DeFore toured the country in stock companies for several years
before making his Broadway debut in 1938. In films since 1941, he
occasionally played leads in B pictures, but was more often cast as the
good-natured buddy of the hero or a likable but gullible character whom
the hero has to bail out of trouble. DeFore found much more success on
television, and was a regular in the hit series Hazel (1961) and
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952).
