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Arthur Lake (b. Arthur Timberlake, April 17, 1905, Corbin, Kentucky
Corbin, Kentucky

Corbin is a city in Whitley County, Kentucky and Knox County, Kentucky counties in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The urbanized area around Corbin extends into Laurel County, Kentucky; this area, known as North Corbin, Kentucky, is not incorporated into the city limits, due to a state law prohibiting cities from being...
 - d. January 9, 1987, Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta, California. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 3,816....
) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead
Dagwood Bumstead

Dagwood Bumstead is a main fictional character in the long-running comic strip Blondie . He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933....
, the bumbling husband of Blondie
Blondie (comic strip)

File:Blondiemay75012.jpgBlondie is a popular comic strip created by Chic Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930....
 to life in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
.

Lake appeared in films starting in the late 1920s, beginning as an adolescent character actor. By the sound era he was playing light romantic roles, usually with a comic "Mama's Boy" tone to them, in films such as Indiscreet
Indiscreet (1931 film)

Indiscreet is a United States comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon. The screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, based on their story Obey That Impulse, originally was written as a full-fledged musical film, but only two songs - "If You Haven't Got Love" and "Come to Me" -...
 with Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
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Arthur Lake (b. Arthur Timberlake, April 17, 1905, Corbin, Kentucky
Corbin, Kentucky

Corbin is a city in Whitley County, Kentucky and Knox County, Kentucky counties in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The urbanized area around Corbin extends into Laurel County, Kentucky; this area, known as North Corbin, Kentucky, is not incorporated into the city limits, due to a state law prohibiting cities from being...
 - d. January 9, 1987, Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta, California. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 3,816....
) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead
Dagwood Bumstead

Dagwood Bumstead is a main fictional character in the long-running comic strip Blondie . He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933....
, the bumbling husband of Blondie
Blondie (comic strip)

File:Blondiemay75012.jpgBlondie is a popular comic strip created by Chic Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930....
 to life in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
.

Lake appeared in films starting in the late 1920s, beginning as an adolescent character actor. By the sound era he was playing light romantic roles, usually with a comic "Mama's Boy" tone to them, in films such as Indiscreet
Indiscreet (1931 film)

Indiscreet is a United States comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon. The screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, based on their story Obey That Impulse, originally was written as a full-fledged musical film, but only two songs - "If You Haven't Got Love" and "Come to Me" -...
 with Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
. He is best known for portraying the Blondie
Blondie (comic strip)

File:Blondiemay75012.jpgBlondie is a popular comic strip created by Chic Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930....
 comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 character of Dagwood Bumstead
Dagwood Bumstead

Dagwood Bumstead is a main fictional character in the long-running comic strip Blondie . He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933....
 in the long-running series of Blondie
Blondie (film)

Blondie is a 1938 in film directed by Frank Strayer, based on the Blondie . The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy....
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s produced by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
 from 1938 until 1950. During virtually the same length of time, a radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 version was broadcast with Lake in the Dagwood role. He also portrayed the character in the 1957 Blondie
Blondie (TV series)

Blondie was the first of two TV series based on the Blondie of the same name. It first aired on January 4, 1957 on NBC. Although Penny Singleton had starred in most of the Blondie movies, producers chose Pamela Britton for the title role, with Arthur Lake playing the role of Dagwood Bumstead as he had in the Blondie movie series....
 television series, even though he was old enough by that time to be a grandfather. His work in the popular Blondie radio show earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 at 6646 Hollywood Blvd.

He died of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 in Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta, California. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 3,816....
 on January 9, 1987 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californiadistrict of Los Angeles, California....
 in Hollywood, in the Douras family mausoleum, along with actress Marion Davies
Marion Davies

Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
 and her husband Harold Brown.

Lake's wife Patricia Van Cleeve Lake
Patricia Lake

Patricia Lake , was reportedly the daughter of actress Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst, and was the mother of Mary Collins. Prior to Lake's death, Lake was thought to be the daughter of Rosemary Davies and her first husband, George Van Cleeve....
 (1923-1993) was thought to be Davies' niece, until she was revealed to be Davies' and Hearst's illegitimate daughter after Davies died, making Arthur Lake a son-in-law of Davies and William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
. Archive footage of Arthur and Patricia Lake appeared in the documentary film
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies which premiered on Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies is a cable television channel featuring television commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros....
 on February 14, 2001.

Arthur Lake's sister Florence Lake
Florence Lake

Florence Lake was an United States actress who is best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.The Silverlakes were a theatrical family; Florence's parents were once aerialists, billed as "The Flying Silverlakes." Florence's younger brother, Arthur Silverlake, Jr., later became famous as movie comedian Arthur L...
 was also an actress who became famous as one of the screen wives of comedian Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an United States comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper....
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