- Born
- Died
- Birth nameEugene Hugh Beaumont
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Beaumont began his career in show business by perfoming in theatres, nightclubs, and on the radio in 1931. He attended the University of Chattanooga, but left when his position on the football team was changed. He later attended the University of Southern California, and graduated with a Master of Theology degree in 1946. He was visiting his son Hunter, a Psychology Professor in Munich, at the time of his sudden death.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseKathryn Adams(April 13, 1941 - 1974) (divorced, 3 children)
- ChildrenHunter BeaumontMark BeaumontKristy Beaumont
- ParentsEdward Henry BeaumontEthel Adeline Whitney
- After suffering his 1972 stroke, he was told by doctors that he would never walk or talk again, but he proved otherwise and recovered enough to do some directing and community theater work.
- Retired from show business in the late 1960s, launching a second career as a Christmas-tree farmer in Minnesota. He was forced to slow down after suffering a stroke in 1972.
- Was an ordained minister.
- A devout Methodist, he originally studied for the clergy but eventually switched to acting, remaining busy as a lay minister, however, throughout his acting career.
- Spent much of his later years growing Christmas trees on Balgillo Island, which he owned, in northern Minnesota.
- Sometimes my work as an actor presents a conflict with my ideals as a clergyman. I don't believe in the old saying that the end justifies the means, and no money that I can earn as an actor can accomplish so much good that I would feel justified in violating my ideals to earn it . . . If the question ever arises in a serious way, of course I would have to give up my acting.
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