Parley Baer, the man who is best known to old-time radio fans as Chester Proudfoot on Gunsmoke was born on Wednesday, August 5, 1914, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the third child of Charles and ...

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," has ...