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Ed Ames who was born Edmund Dantes Urick died May 21, 2023, at the age of 95 from natural causes.<\/p>\n
While still in high school Ed and his brothers formed a singing group which won many competitions in the Boston area.\u00a0 They changed their group’s name to the Ames Brothers and landed their first record contract in 1947.\u00a0 The group continued recording and scored several hits throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.<\/p>\n
When the group broke up, Ed Ames decided to pursue a full-time acting career.\u00a0 Mr. Ames landed roles in off-Broadway and Broadway plays.\u00a0 While playing Chief Bromden in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> opposite Kirk Douglas, Mr. Ames was offered the role of Mingo on the television series Daniel Boone<\/em>.\u00a0 This role made him a star.\u00a0 For the rest of his career Ed Ames would alternate between acting on television and stage as well as singing as a solo performer.<\/p>\n Some of Ed Ames television appearances include: The Rifleman; The Travels of Jamie McPheeters; The Danny Thomas Hour; Daniel Boone<\/em> (72 episodes); The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> (4 episodes); The Tonight Show<\/em>; McCloud; Murder She Wrote; In the Heat of the Night<\/em> and Jake and the Fatman<\/em>.<\/p>\n I was a huge fan of Ed Ames as Mingo.\u00a0 It was the first time that I can remember liking a supporting character more than the star.\u00a0 There’s a classic clip of Ed Ames promoting Daniel Boone<\/em> on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Ames was demonstrating his prowess at tomahawk throwing.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth looking up.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ed Ames’ family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ed Ames who was born Edmund Dantes Urick died May 21, 2023, at the age of 95 from natural causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32962,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32961\/revisions\/32962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}