Hazel ran for five seasons until April 1966. Buntrock appeared in all of them, even though his TV parents (Don DeFore, Whitney Blake) left the show ahead of Season 5 under the guise that their characters moved to Baghdad and left their son in the care of relatives and wacky maid Hazel.
At the height of Hazel’s popularity, Buntrock appeared in a 1963 commercial for the Ford Falcon station wagon with Blake, as well as early ads for the iconic 1960s toy Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots.
On April 7, 1974, Buntrock died tragically at age 21. A death notice published by the Rapid City Journalrevealed that the former child actor drowned in Battle Creek River after a one-car accident. Buntrock’s car veered off a bridge construction site in Keystone, South Dakota, and plunged into the water. The Hazel star had been living in South Dakota for five years and had graduated from high school there in 1970. The late actor was also a member of the National Guard in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Bobby Buntrock’s neighbors convinced his parents to get him into acting
According to an article in the Lewiston Evening Journal, Buntrock was born in Denver, but his family moved to Whittier, Calif, when he was a young child. The family’s neighbors convinced Buntrock’s parents to get him into acting, going so far as to book a photographer to take head shots of the child to send to an agent. Buntrock signed with agent Marcella Bell on the spot.
“He likes to play the accordion and likes baseball, too. His best subject is arithmetic,” Buntrock’s father said in October 1961.
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