Lou Krugman was born
in Passaic, NJ in 1914.
Had he toddled
four counties away to Monmouth,
he would have found himself
in the Long Branch
forty years sooner.
Lou Kru looks great wearing a white tuxedo and holding a cigarette
in the M Squad episode "The Platter Pirates," where he plays
a bistro owner
busted by Ballinger
for bootlegging records.
In the
Have Gun-Will Travel episode
"Champagne Safari,"
despite being
a dastardly dry-gulcher,
Lou Kru
is very sympathetic
as Antoine,
a Frenchman smitten
by a British femme fatale.
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The Great Kruggurk
consults his crystal ball
and discovers to his dismay
that the Kruggerand is worth
exactly two bits in Dodge City.
If you want to acquaint
& familiarize yourself
with Lou Krugman's voice,
get ahold of the original
December 17, 1950 version
of Wild Jack Rhett,
and listen to his delicious performance as villainous
saloon owner Bohallon.
Or, as he would sibilantly
put it,
'delishheewz'
and
'villanez ssssalooon owner.'
As an added pleasure,
Krugman actually does
the familiar Escape intro
for this episode--
"Tired of the everyday grind?
Ever dream of a life
of romantic adventure?
Want to get away from it all?
We offer you--Escape!!!"
So--were the nine
and twenty years
of Gunsmoke not real?
Was Dodge merely
all one exotic locale,
one episode, one escape?
June 14, 2005
Copyright
© 2006 E. A. Villafranca, Jr.
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Lou Krugman fans
who have only heard
the Krugster on radio Gunsmoke
and want to see what he looks like,
can watch him
in the tv version of Gunsmuggler,
where he gets a lot
of screen time.
He was also
in the tv adaptations
of
Amy's Good Deed
and Buffalo Hunter.
He later appeared
in the b&w hr episode
Old York.
Amid all the baddie bits,
Lou Krugman was given
a solid role
in the radio HGWT episode "North Fork,"
where he plays
a Mennonite man.
Krugman lends him
sod & substance,
so that his character doesn't crumble
into the stereotype
of a religious farmer
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