Sorrell Booke - wikipedia Sorrell Booke This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. ( September 2017 ) Sorrell Booke Sorrell Booke in trailer for Devil Times Five ( 1974 ) ( 1930 - 01 - 04 ) January 4, 1930 Buffalo, New York, U.S. February 11, 1994 ( 1994 - 02 - 11 ) ( aged 64 ) Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. Cause of death Colorectal cancer Resting place Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery Alma mater Yale University Columbia University Occupation Actor Years active 1952 -- 1994 Spouse ( s ) Miranda Knickerbocker ( 1958 -- 1973 ; divorced ) Children Alexandra ( daughter ) Nicholas ( son ) Military career Allegiance United States Service / branch United States Army Rank Lieutenant Battles / wars Korean War 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 corrupt politician Jefferson Davis `` Boss '' Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 The Dukes of Hazzard ( 1979 -- 1985 ) 3 Personal life 3.1 Death 4 Partial filmography 5 Television work 6 Stage appearances 7 References 8 External links Early life and education Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, a cousin of Max Yasgur. He earned degrees from both Columbia and Yale universities. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. Career Booke came to Hollywood via a theatre degree from Yale University and a decade on the New York Stage. One prominent early role was that of Senator Billboard T. Rawkins in the 1960 revival of Finian 's Rainbow, a role foreshadowing his most famous character, that of Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard. During his early Hollywood acting career, Booke gained acclaim for notable supporting parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me, A Fine Madness, and Fail - Safe. In 1962, he was in Fiorello ! and starred as the namesake 's character. In 1965, he guest starred as Sgt. Herschel Aronson in episode 19 `` Faith, Hope, and Sergeant Aronson '' of ABC 's 12 O - Clock High military drama. He soon began focusing primarily on television roles in the 1970s and 1980s, and voice acting roles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Booke also once conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Booke earned an Emmy nomination for his appearance in Dr. Kildare in the episode `` What 's God to Julius ? ''. He appeared in an episode of Mission : Impossible from the first season in 1966. Booke appeared in two early episodes of M * A * S * H, as General Barker in `` Requiem for a Lightweight '' and `` Chief Surgeon Who ? '', the latter marked the debut of the character Corporal Klinger, with whom Booke 's character had previously dealt. He also had a recurring role in Norman Lear 's groundbreaking sitcom All in the Family as Mr. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie Bunker 's workplace, Prendergast Tool and Die Company. ( He had previously appeared on All in the Family as Lyle Bennett, the manager of a local television station. ) Booke was featured on an episode of Good Times, and had a recurring role as the Jewish mob boss `` Lefkowitz '' on Soap. The Dukes of Hazzard ( 1979 -- 1985 ) Booke 's most notable role was in The Dukes of Hazzard as the humorously wicked antagonist to Bo and Luke Duke. The series ran on CBS for seven seasons, from 1979 to 1985 and spawned an animated series, The Dukes ( 1983 ), two reunion TV specials ( by which time Booke had died, and the character of Boss Hogg was also said to be deceased ), a feature film ( 2005 ) and The Dukes of Hazzard : The Beginning ( a 2007 TV movie ). Booke had stopped appearing physically in acting roles, but he continued to perform voice work on several television shows and movies, occasionally as narrator, and sometimes as a cartoon character 's voice, in such movies as Scooby - Doo Meets the Boo Brothers ( 1987 TV movie ), Gravedale High ( 1990 television series ), and Rock - A-Doodle ( 1991 ). Personal life Booke was married to Miranda Knickerbocker ( the daughter of Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker ) from 1958 to 1973. They had two children, Alexandra and Nicholas. Booke has a brother, Fred. Death On February 11, 1994, Booke died of colorectal cancer in Sherman Oaks, California. He is interred at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. His tombstone reads, `` Beloved Pa, Grandpa, Brother and Boss. '' Partial filmography Gone are the Days ! ( 1963 ) as Ol ' Cap ', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee Black Like Me ( 1964 ) as Dr. Jackson Les Félins ( 1964 ) as Harry Fail - Safe ( 1964 ) as Congressman Raskob A Fine Madness ( 1966 ) as Leonard Tupperman Up the Down Staircase ( 1967 ) as Dr. Bester Matchless ( 1967 ) as Colonel Coolpepper Bye Bye Braverman ( 1968 ) as Holly Levine What 's Up, Doc ? ( 1972 ) as Harry Slaughterhouse - Five ( 1972 ) as Lionel Merble The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) as Hugo Kalmar The Take ( 1974 ) as Oscar Devil Times Five ( 1974 ) as Harvey Beckman Bank Shot ( 1974 ) as Al G. Karp The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery ( 1975 ) as Dr. Melon Mastermind ( 1976 ) as Max Engstrom Special Delivery ( 1976 ) as Hubert Zane Freaky Friday ( 1976 ) as Mr. Dilk The Other Side of Midnight ( 1977 ) as Lanchon Record City ( 1978 ) as Coznowski The Cat from Outer Space ( 1978 ) as Presiding Judge ( uncredited ) Rock - A-Doodle ( 1991 ) as Pinky - The Manager ( voice ) Television work The Guiding Light ( 1952 ) Brenner ( 1959 ) The Iceman - Cometh ( 1960 ) The Million Dollar Incident ( 1961 ) Car 54, Where Are You ?, as Police Commissioner Harper in `` How High Is Up ? '' ( 1962 ) Route 66, as Sam Frazier in `` Voice at the End of the Line '' ( 1962 ) Naked City Beyond This Place There Be Dragons ( 9 episodes, 1960 -- 1963 ) The Patty Duke Show, as Gilbert Tugwell in `` Block That Statue '' ( 1964 ) Twelve O'Clock High, as Sgt. Aronson in `` Faith, Hope, and Sgt. Aronson '' ( 1965 ) Slattery 's People as Max Rice in `` Question : What 's a Swan Song for a Sparrow ? '' ( 1965 ) New York Television Theatre ( 1965 ) T.H.E. Cat -- Episode 1 ( 1966 ) Mission : Impossible ( 1967 ) The Borgia Stick ( 1967 ) Ironside Shell Game ( 1968 ) The Wild Wild West, as Heisel in `` The Night of the Egyptian Queen '' ( 1968 ) Hawaii Five - O - `` The Double Wall '' ( 1970 ) Room 222 ( one episode 1971 ) as Mr Bomberg All in the Family ( 1971 ) as Joseph Sanders / Mr. Bennett Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law ( 1971 ) M * A * S * H ( 1972 ) The Manhunter ( 1972 ) Gunshot ( 1972 ) Gunsmoke, in `` Milligan '' ( 1972 ) as Gerald Pandy Alias Smith and Jones ( 1972 ) Adventures of Nick Carter ( 1972 ) Dr. Max ( 1974 ) as Dr. Scott Herndon The Last Angry Man ( 1974 ) as Dr. Max Vogel The New Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1974 ) as Herbie Vincent / Otto Cannon ( 1974 ) Columbo : Swan Song ( 1974 ) as J.J. Stringer Kolchak : The Night Stalker ( 1974 ) as Mr. Eddy Kung Fu, in `` A Dream Within a Dream '' ( 1974 ) as Sheriff Hodges Adventures of the Queen ( 1975 ) as Robert Dwight The Streets of San Francisco ( 1975 ) as Quincy Lloyd Rich Man, Poor Man Book II ( 1976 ) as Phil Greenberg Brenda Starr ( 1976 ) as A.J. Livwright The Bob Newhart Show ( 1976 ) as Mr. Perlmutter Hunter, Episode `` The Lovejoy Files '' ( 1977 ) as Mervyn Baa Baa Black Sheep Episode `` Poor Little Lambs '' ( 1977 ) as Father Phillipe The Greatest Thing that Almost Happened ( 1977 ) as Samuelson The Amazing Howard Hughes ( 1977 ) as Fiorello LaGuardia Columbo : The Bye - Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case ( 1977 ) as Bertie Hastings Greatest Heroes of the Bible ( 1978 ) Soap ( 1978 ) as Charles Lefkowitz Good Times ( 1978 ) as Mr. Galbraith Little House on the Prairie ( 1978 ) What 's Happening ! ! ( 1978 ) as Mr. Finley The Rockford Files ( 1978 ) as Wade G. Ward Bigfoot and Wildboy ( 1979 ) The Dukes of Hazzard ( 1979 - 1985 ) as Boss Hogg / Abraham Lincoln Hogg The Love Boat ( 1980 ) as Lucius Kergo The Smurfs ( 1981 ) ( voice ) The Dukes ( 1983 ) as Jefferson Davis ' Boss ' Hogg ( voice ) Alice ( 1983 ) as Jefferson Davis ' Boss ' Hogg The Pound Puppies ( 1985 ) as Mayor Fist aka The Mayor ( voice ) Newhart ( 1985 ) as Sheik Fraser Crazy Like a Fox ( 1986 ) as Bernard ' Bernie ' Sinclair You Again ? ( 1986 ) as Roger Davidson Scooby - Doo Meets the Boo Brothers ( 1987 ) as Sheriff Rufus Buzby / T.J. Buzby ( voice ) Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears ( 1988 ) as Mountain Bear ( voice ) Full House Episode `` Our Very First Christmas Show '' ( 1988 ) as Lionel / Santa Claus Fantastic Max ( 1988 ) ( voice ) Don Coyote & Sancho Panda ( 1990 ) ( voice ) Tom and Jerry Kids Show ( 1990 ) as Announcer ( voice ) Gravedale High ( 1990 ) ( voice ) Civil Wars ( 1991 ) as Charles Previn Tiny Toon Adventures : How I Spent My Vacation ( 1992 ) as Big Daddy Boo ( voice ) Capitol Critters ( 1992 ) ( voice ) Bonkers ( 1993 ) as Boss Hoss ( voice ) The New Adventures of Captain Planet ( 1993 ) as Sheriff Hebbs ( voice ) Droopy, Master Detective ( 1993 ) Stage appearances The Sleeping Prince ( 1956 ) Nature 's Way ( 1957 ) Heartbreak House ( 1959 ) Fiorello ! ( 1959 -- 61 ) ( replacement ) Finian 's Rainbow ( 1960 ) Caligula ( 1960 ) Purlie Victorious ( 1961 -- 62 ) The White House ( 1964 ) The Iceman Cometh ( 1966 ) Come Live with Me ( 1967 ) Morning, Noon and Night ( 1968 ) Biography portal New York portal California portal Theatre portal Film portal Television portal References ^ Jump up to : Collins, Glenn ( February 15, 1994 ). `` Sorrell Booke, A TV Actor, 64 ; Was Boss Hogg ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 31. External links Sorrell Booke on IMDb Sorrell Booke at the TCM Movie Database Sorrell Booke at AllMovie `` Sorrell Booke ''. Find a Grave. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 14. More about Sorrell and his character, `` Boss Hogg '' Hazzardnet.com, dedicated to the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, has information about Sorrell Booke and the rest of the cast The Dukes of Hazzard Episodes Characters Bo Duke Luke Duke Daisy Duke Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane Boss Hogg Reunion films The Dukes of Hazzard : Reunion ! ( 1997 ) The Dukes of Hazzard : Hazzard in Hollywood ! ( 2000 ) Remake films The Dukes of Hazzard ( 2005 ) The Dukes of Hazzard : The Beginning ( 2007 ) Video games The Dukes of Hazzard Racing for Home Daisy Dukes It Out Return of the General Lee Spin - offs Enos The Dukes See also The General Lee Boar 's Nest Jerry Rushing `` Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard ( Good Ol ' Boys ) '' Moonrunners Hazard Run VIAF : 44489806 LCCN : no98011347 ISNI : 0000 0000 5937 1878 BNF : cb13942394f ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sorrell_Booke&oldid=799982837 '' Categories : 1930 births 1994 deaths American male film actors Jewish American male actors American military personnel of the Korean War American male stage actors American male television actors American male voice actors Yale School of Drama alumni Columbia University alumni Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from colorectal cancer Male actors from Buffalo, New York 20th - century American male actors Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery United States Army officers Military personnel from New York ( state ) Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from May 2017 Articles needing additional references from September 2017 All articles needing additional references Articles with hCards Turner Classic Movies person ID not in Wikidata Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Ελληνικά Français Frysk Italiano Nederlands Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 10 September 2017, at 23 : 52. 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Question: who played boss hogg in the dukes of hazzard
Answer: Sorrell Booke