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Rex Trailer

American television personality

PersonDied aged 84humanQ3000337

Born: September 16, 1928
Died: January 9, 2013
Birthplace: Thurber
Place of death: Miami
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: cowboy
Employer: Emerson College

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Rex Trailer was an American regional television personality, broadcast pioneer, cowboy and Country and Western recording artist. He is best known as the host of the children's television show Boomtown which initially ran from 1956 through 1974.

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BBoomtown1956 · television series based in Boston, Massachusetts

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Rex
Family name: Trailer
Cause of death: pneumonia
Start of work period: 1947
Manner of death: natural causes

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