One of the UK’s top pathologists has backed calls to exhume a toddler’s body to prove she was murdered more than 60 years ago.
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Ed Ames, whose long career included hit recordings, TV stardom, and Broadway roles, died May 21 in Los Angeles at 95. No cause was given.
Ames began his career in the 1950s as part of the singing Ames Brothers quartet, joining with his brothers Vic, Joe, and Gene. The group had a hit with “Rag Mop” in 1950, and totaled 49 chart hits before ending their association in 1963. The group also had a syndicated TV program, “The Ames Brothers Show.”
Ames also branched off into a solo career, hitting the charts with “Who Will Answer?,” “My Cup Runneth Over” and “Try to Remember.”
Ames switched gears and did stage tours in the off-Broadway shows “The Crucible” and “The Fantasticks,” as then scored a starring role on Broadway in “Carnival!” He later starred with Kirk Douglas, Gene Wilder, and William Daniels in the Broadway production of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Television came calling, and Ames – although of Russian-Jewish heritage – was tabbed to play Cherokee Indian “Mingo” on the Fess Parker TV vehicle, “Daniel Boone.”
During his TV career, he accidentally became a “The Tonight Show” legend when he demonstrated how to throw a tomahawk for host Johnny Carson. Aiming at a wood panel outline of a cowboy, Ames’s throw landed squarely in the groin of the cowboy drawing.
Carson quipped, “I didn’t even know you were Jewish!” and then, “Welcome to Frontier Bris.” The audience roared for a reported four minutes.
Ames later made guest appearances in such shows as “The Rifleman,” “McCloud,” “Murder She Wrote,” “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” and “Jake and the Fatman.”
Ames was thwas born in Massachusetts as the youngest of nine children, and received a B.A. in theater and cinema arts from UCLA in 1975.
He is survived by his
One of the UK’s top pathologists has backed calls to exhume a toddler’s body to prove she was murdered more than 60 years ago.
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