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Sorrell Booke (born January 4, 1930 in Buffalo, New York; died February 11, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis Boss Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
Fluent in five languages, Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me and A Fine Madness before transitioning to focus primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s. He succumbed to cancer in 1994.
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Sorrell Booke Facts
| Occupation | Actor |
| Birthday | January 4, 1930 |
| Sign | Capricorn |
| Birthplace | Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Date of death | February 11, 1994 (age 64) |