Buddy Ebsen on the Rebound
Buddy Ebsen is bouncing back.
The 95-year-old Beverly Hillbillies star, who was hospitalized last week in Torrance, California, for an undisclosed illness, is out of intensive care and making a solid recovery, a hospital official says.
"His condition is still good and he remains in the hospital," Torrance Memorial Medical Center spokeswoman Kelly Curtis said Tuesday, adding that his doctors might let him leave within the next day or so.
Citing patient privacy, Curtis would not elaborate on what exactly is ailing Ebsen. But the actor's wife said that she promised a vacation away from the 90210.
"He is doing much better. We coaxed him that if he keeps breathing we are going to take him to Hawaii. So I think we are going to Hawaii and that is good news," Dotti Ebsen told Reuters on Friday.
The actor, who underwent heart surgery in 1998 a few months after his 90th birthday, had been under the weather for a few weeks before checking into the hospital on June 26.
Dotti Ebsen, who has been at her husband's bedside all week, also thanked Buddy's fans in TV Land for all their kind wishes for his speedy recovery.
Ebsen's struck black gold as Jed Clampett on CBS' The Beverly Hillbillies from 1962 to 1971. He proved equally durable in the role of the AARP-eligible P.I. in Barnaby Jones, another CBS staple that ran from 1973 to 1980.
In a twist, he played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 Beverly Hillbillies movie, starring Jim Varney as Clampett.Despite the health setbacks, Ebsen has kept himself busy recording an album, writing a novel and painting.
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