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Michael Lew Winkelman (June 27, 1946 – July 27, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Little Luke in the television sitcom series The Real McCoys. Winkelman's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother had all been stage performers.
Michael Winkelman (1946-1999) was an actor who appeared in The Indian Fighter, The Real McCoys and other TV shows. He was born and died in Los Angeles, California, USA, and was married to Diana Maria Bustillos.
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Michael Winkelman was a child actor who appeared in The Indian Fighter, The Real McCoys and Science Fiction Theatre. He later joined the US Navy and worked as a groundskeeper at Universal Pictures.
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Michael Lew Winkelman (June 27, 1946 – July 27, 1999) was an American child actor best known for his role as Little Luke McCoy from 1957 to 1963 in 136 episodes of the situation comedy television series, The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan in the title role of Grandpa Amos McCoy, with Richard Crenna as Luke McCoy, older brother of Winkelman's character.
After its five-year run on ABC, The Real McCoys switched to CBS for its final season in 1962-1963 without the services of Kathleen Nolan as the young housewife, Kate McCoy. The series was created by Irving Pincus and directed by Hy Averback, with Richard Crenna later assuming some directing duties.
Winkelman's first television appearance was as 9-year-old Bruce Fuller in the 1955 television series The Great Gildersleeve. That same year, he also appeared in the Richard Boone series Medic on NBC. Even while appearing in the first season of The Real McCoys, young Winkelman appeared as Ben Palmer in the pilot episode, "The Willy Moran Story", on NBC's Wagon Train, He also guest-starred on ABC's Telephone Time, and on CBS's Lassie during the Tommy Rettig years and the fantasy drama, The Millionaire. He appeared on Darren McGavin's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and on The Lone Ranger in the role of Chip Truett in the episode entitled "The Prince of Buffalo Gap". He guest-starred on two episodes in 1955 and 1956 of both NBC's The Loretta Young Show and CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. Winkelman appeared in the ABC anthology, TV Reader's Digest, in a 1955 episode entitled "Ordeal at Yuba Gap". In 1956, he appeared in two episodes of ABC's Cavalcade of America anthology series, one entitled "The Boy Nobody Wanted".
Winkelman's film roles, some uncredited, were in The Big Knife, Bobby Ware Is Missing, Sincerely Yours, and The Indian Fighter (all 1955), and Ride Out for Revenge (1957).
Winkleman died at the age of 53,[why?] and his remains are interred at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside County, California.
Winkelman was a brother of actress Wendy Winkelman.
Jul 27, 1999 · Michael Lew Winkelman (June 27, 1946 – July 27, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Little Luke in the television sitcom series The Real McCoys.
Michael Winkelman was a child actor who played \"Little Luke\" in The Real McCoys. He died in 1999 at age 53 and is buried in Riverside National Cemetery.
Jul 27, 1999 · Michael L. Winkelman (1946-1999) was best known for playing Little Luke McCoy on The Real McCoys from 1957 to 1963. He also appeared in several other TV shows and movies, and served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War.
