Budd Albright

Budd Albright was born Forrest Edwards Albright in Elkhart Indiana of Dutch, Irish and Italian parents. His father was an athlete who played professional baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and inducted into the Indiana and Spalding Hall of Fame. He was the first man in the state of Indiana to run the hundred yard dash in 10-sec. flat. His mother Jeanne was a would be actress who met Budd's father after a local theater performance and went for coffee, they soon married. In 1936 Budd was born and the young family moved to Los Angeles. Budd has two younger brothers Brian and Tom (both deceased). Times were tough and they lived in a small apartment that overlooked the back lot of Paramount Studios. Budd's parents worked hard and Budd spent a lot of time with his grandmother Viola who had followed her lover Buck from Chicago who worked in the in the film industry. It was Budd's grandmother who had been General Douglas MacArthur's personal secretary and had graduated from the Chicago Art I