Kelton garwood biography

American actor (1928–1991)

Kelton Bradford Garwood, also known and credited as Jonathan Harper, and John Harper,^[2] (May 21, 1928 – July 28, 1991)^[1] was an American actor on stage, film and television,^[3] perhaps best known as undertaker Percy Crump on the western television show Gunsmoke.^[1]

Early life

Kelton Bradford Garwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, the middle of three sons for William E.

Garwood, a bank teller, and Marquise V. Trott.^[4][5] He was still in high school when he registered for the draft on his eighteenth birthday in 1946.^[6] The draft registrar recorded him as being 6'3" (191 cm), 160 pounds (73 kg), with blue eyes and blonde hair.^[6]

Military service and college

Following high school, Garwood enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where by July 1947 he was a private assigned to photographic reconnisance squadron VMP-354 at Marin