Kelton Garwood
Kelton Bradford Garwood, also known and credited as Jonathan Harper, and John Harper, (May 21, 1928 – July 28, 1991) was an American actor on stage, film and television, perhaps best known as undertaker Percy Crump on the western television show Gunsmoke. Early life Kelton Bradford Garwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, the middle of three sons for William E. Garwood, a bank teller, and Marquise V. Trott. He was still in high school when he registered for the draft on his eighteenth birthday in 1946. The draft registrar recorded him as being 6'3" (191 cm), 160 pounds (73 kg), with blue eyes and blonde hair. Military service and college Following high school, Garwood enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where by July 1947 he was a private assigned to photographic reconnisance squadron VMP-354 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. Upon his discharge, Garwood enrolled at Ohio State University, majoring in Drama. He graduated in Spring 1952, by which time he had already acquired some professional stage experience. Early stage career After college Garwood joined the Pine Tree Players in Laurel, Maryland for the 1952 summer stock season. He performed in one week runs of My