Bob Amsberry

Robert Wayne Amsberry (June 2, 1928 – November 21, 1957) Amsberry also worked as a voice actor, with a posthumous credit in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

Early life Amsberry was born in 1928 in the small town of Boring, Oregon, the third child of Ernest and Cassie Amsberry. a then-new series, writing skits as well as acting on the show in various characters. Bob-O, a clown character played by Amsberry on the series, became a minor celebrity, and the character was featured as a live character impersonator at the Disneyland theme park. Bill Walsh maintained Amsberry's contract with Disney until September 1957, and Amsberry appeared on Disney's Hardy Boys television serial installment Mystery of Ghost Farm, which premiered on September 13, 1957. His voice work also appears in Sleeping Beauty (1959) as one of Maleficent's goons.

On the morning of November 21, 1957, Amsberry was involved in a car accident as a passenger with Roy Williams, another Disney employee, in Portland. Amsberry died of injuries sustained in the accident. Roy Williams, a known drinker, was implicated but other local sources claim Amsberry was the driver, alone, not a passenger, and went off a cliff; he went through a utility pole and the pole impaled him and his vehicle.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1955-57 The Mickey Mouse Club Uncle Bob; various Television series 1957 The Hardy Boys: Mystery on the Ghost Farm Farmer Sam Television series 1958 Paul Bunyan Joe Muffaw Voice, Uncredited, Released posthumously 1959 Sleeping Beauty Maleficent's Goon Voice, Uncredited, Released posthumously