Spoiler : Born in Macon, Georgia 5/26/1915; died 7/28/2004. Edwards suffered a heart attack while enroute from his home in Durango, Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming to appear at Frontier Days. Edwards had been living in Durango since 1980. Married to Beverly Motley (1969-2004 his death). Son of stage actors, Edna and Jack Edwards. Brother of Jack and Joan Edwards; nephew of Gus Edwards. Drafted into the Army during WWII, Edwards and a group of entertainers produced Hey Rookie, a live show to raise money for the Army Recreation and Welfare Fund. Originally to run two weeks, the show ran to standing room audiences for eight months, ending on when General Eisenhower called for more entertainment for overseas troops. By the end of WWII, Edwards and his fellow performers had performed for over two million troops in North Africa, Italy and the China- Burma-India Theater.

Spoiler : As teenagers, Sam Edwards and his brother Jack starred in a Walter Biddick, Company syndicated radio program called The Adventures of Sonny and Buddy. The program telling about the adventures of two boys who traveled with a medicine show, was written by their mother. The 1935 program had 100 episodes.

Spoiler : Child actor on radio station WAOI-San Antonio during the early 1930's. Screen debut in playing Pete in East Side Kids (1940). Last movie was playing the ticket clerk in 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Spoiler : Tracy Baker on the NBC-Radio soap, One Man's Family during the WWII era. Billy on the NBC-Radio soap, Hawthorne House during the early to middle 1940's. Dexter Franklin on Meet Corlis Archer for the CBS, NBC and ABC Radio Networks (1944-1956). Billy Smith on Father Knows Best for NBC- Radio (1949-1953). Regular performer on radio programs including the syndicated program, Speed Gibson Of The International Secret Police (1937-1938); Deadline Mystery for ABC (1947); Escape for CBS (1947-1954); the syndicated program, The Damon Runyon Theater (1948); The First Hundred Years for ABC (1949); Broadway Is My Beat for CBS (1949-1954); Dragnet for NBC (1949-1955); Gunsmoke for CBS (1952-1961); Crime Classics for CBS (1953-1954); The Six Shooter for NBC (1953-1954); Romance for CBS (1954-1957); The CBS Radio Workshop (1956-1957); The Sears Radio Theater for CBS (1979-1980); The Mutual Radio Theater (1980-1981).

Spoiler : Television actor from the early 1950s to his retirement in the early 1980s. The deputy on the CBS-TV soap, Full Circle (1960-1961). Provided his voice for characters on the Hanna-Barber ABC-TV cartoon series, These Are the Days (1974-1976). Regular performer on Villa Alegre for PBS-TV (1974-1979).