Sorrell Booke

Booke succumbed to cancer in 1994. "As God is my Witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" —Gordon Jump, playing Arthur Carlson, on WKRP in Cincinnati (after bombarding a shopping center with live turkeys). Sanders, personnel manager at Archie's workplace, Pendergast Tool and Die. He finally succumbed to the condition when he was 71. Booke had a recurring role in Norman Lear's groundbreaking sitcom All in the Family as Mr. Jump had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that leaves the lungs scarred, restricting oxygen to tissue in the body and eventually causing heart or respiratory failure. Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me and A Fine Madness before transitioning to focus primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s. Jump also enjoyed working in theater.

Fluent in five languages, Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. After "WKRP" folded, Jump hosted the PBS series "Make Yourself at Home" and taught voice classes. Sorrell Booke (born January 4, 1930 in Buffalo, New York; died February 11, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. He also guest-starred on a number of television series, including a memorable and somewhat infamous appearance playing a child molester on Diff'rent Strokes. He took minor roles in television, on such shows as Get Smart, The Partridge Family and The Rockford Files. He was a TV producer and on-air personality in Dayton, Ohio, when he decided to move to Los Angeles and study acting.

He began his career working at radio and television stations in the United States Midwest, including Ohio and Kansas. Jump was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is also well-known as the clueless radio station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. Gordon Jump (April 1, 1932 - September 22, 2003) was an actor, known for his role as the "Maytag Repairman" (in commercials for the Maytag company), from 1989 until his retirement from the role in July 2003.