Jack Bannon

Jack Bannon was an American actor who began behind the scenes, working at 24 as a dialogue coach on the sitcom Petticoat Junction, and he took small parts in that series in 1963 and again in 1969. Born in Los Angeles and a 1963 graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, he appeared across decades of television in The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Daniel Boone, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels and Simon & Simon, and as Buck Williams in the drama Trauma Center in 1983. His signature part was Art Donovan, the amiable assistant editor of a fictional Los Angeles newspaper, played in all 114 episodes of Lou Grant from 1977 to 1982. His film work included What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Little Big Man (1970) and Death Warrant (1990), and he acted for 20 years with the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre company.