Parley Baer, a durable character actor whose six-decade career encompassed more than 60 motion pictures, 1,600 television shows and an amazing 15,000 radio programs including the original version ...

Familiar veteran character actor Parley Baer, Chester on radio’s “Gunsmoke” and Mayor Stoner on TV’s “The Andy Griffith Show,” died Friday Nov. 22 at the Motion Picture and Television ...

LOS ANGELES — Parley Baer, a character actor who was the mayor on "The "Andy Griffith Show," the voice of the Keebler cookie elf in TV commercials and the voice of Chester on radio's "Gunsmoke ...

The role of Chester was originally played by Parley Baer on the radio iteration. However, Weaver took over the character when Gunsmoke made its way to television screens. Additionally, the last ...