It is one of TV's ironies that an intelligent, accomplished man like Sorrell Booke found his celebrity playing the part of a short, rotund, conniving, thoroughly dishonest, despicable, clownish, string-pulling small-town political boss on "The Dukes of Hazzard."
Booke was a graduate of both Columbia and Yale and is said to have spoken five languages. Prior to "Dukes," he had made appearances on "Dr. Kildare, "Mission Impossible," "M.A.S.H." and "All in the Family."
As fate would have it, however, Booke got the part of Boss (Jefferson Davis) Hogg and had to be considerably padded to look the part.
He died of cancer in 1994 at age 64.
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