# RIP Red West **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754 "2017-07-20T20:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/1 "2017-07-20T20:32:29Z")
Red West, best known for his portrayal of [Sgt. Andy Micklin](http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsW/tve18199-19780330-1689.jpg) on _Baa Baa Black Sheep_\*, [has died at the age of 81](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/red-west-dead-actor-songwriter-elvis-presley-confidant-was-81-1022733). \*\*\*\*\*Well, that’s the _only_ thing I know him from. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/2 "2017-07-20T21:17:45Z")
RIP, Red. He was all over TV from the 60s to the 80s, but it’s Micklin I remember him as, as well. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/3 "2017-07-20T21:22:54Z")
He’ll always be Red, the auto-parts store owner from _Road House_, to me. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/4 "2017-07-20T22:07:20Z")
Black Sheep Squadron put him in the “hey it’s that guy!” file for me. Now, watching Wild Wild West episodes, I am surprised to see him all the time. He was in a lot of the episodes, as various thugs, bad guys, and background characters, often uncredited. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/5 "2017-07-20T22:11:55Z")
I enjoyed his work. (I loved that show!) Another good one gone. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/6 "2017-07-20T22:34:55Z")
Wasn’t he a charter member of the memphis mafia? He used to keep elvis from getting beat up, and write a book way later called “Elvis: What happened?” I hope i’m right. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/7 "2017-07-20T22:48:28Z")
(Checks date of thread) I would have guessed he’d be 100 by now and long since dead. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/8 "2017-07-21T03:23:49Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > (Checks date of thread) I would have guessed he’d be 100 by now and long since dead. I’m glad it wasn’t just me. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/9 "2017-07-21T05:58:12Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Wasn’t he a charter member of the memphis mafia? > > He used to keep elvis from getting beat up, and write a book way later called “Elvis: What happened?” I hope i’m right. Yes, as was his cousin Sonny West, who wrote Buddy Holly’s “Rave On”. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-red-west/791754/10 "2017-07-21T17:23:48Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Yes, as was his cousin Sonny West, who wrote Buddy Holly’s “Rave On”. I think it’s a different sonny west: > **[Sonny West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_West)** > > Sonny West may refer to: Those are my two favorite Buddy Holly songs he wrote. I’m kind of deflated that he didn’t write them.