Buddy Foster Biography
Buddy Foster is an actor best remembered for his roles in Hondo (1967), The Andy Griffith Show (1960), and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). He began his career at the age of eight and had television parts from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, most notably on Mayberry R.F.D. (1968-1971).
Buddy Foster Age
Buddy was born Lucius Fisher Foster IV on 12 July 1957, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He is 66 years old as of July 2023.
Buddy Foster Family
Lucius to Evelyn (née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III. He has two older sisters and one younger sister, actress Jodie Foster. His parents split in the early 1960s, and his mother took a career in the entertainment industry to support the children.
Buddy Foster Wife
He is happily married to his wife Leah Foster. They have two children.
Buddy Foster Career
In the early 1960s, Evelyn Almond Foster began managing her son Buddy Foster’s career.”Buddy, the first to start acting, lost a Coppertone commercial when 4-year-old Jodie charmed the casting director and got the job.”
As a young actor, Foster played a regular part on the 1967 TV western Hondo and Mayberry, R.F.D. (1968-1971), as well as guest appearances on various other television series during the 1970s, including The Six Million Dollar Man. In the 1969 episode “Burglary Auto: Juvenile Genius” of Dragnet, he played James “Watermelon” Chambers.Foster played Clint Priddy in the 1967 episode of Petticoat Junction titled “Temperance, Temperance”. In the well-known 1969 Tootsie Pop ad, he provided the voice for the young child.
His final film performance was in Foxes (1980), which starred his sister Jodie Foster. Foster published Foster Child, a memoir about his boyhood, in 1997. In the book, Foster claims that Jodie was a lesbian or bisexual many years before she came out, and that their mother had a same-sex relationship. Jodie described the story as a “cheap cry for attention and money, filled with hazy recollections, fantasies, and borrowed press releases […] Buddy has done nothing but break our mother’s heart his whole life” . In October 1997, Foster operated a construction company in Duluth, Minnesota, where he lived with his second wife.
Buddy Foster Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.