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==Early career==

==Early career==

Kelman is adopted. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifa.zoomshare.com/album/California%20Adoptees/images/87ef9e550e815da1e445c13e8f747765_12123618110/:album|title=California Adoptees: Ricky Kelman|publisher=ifa.zoomshare.com|accessdate=November 23, 2012}}</ref> His first appearances were as a choirboy in 1954 and 1955 on ''The Red Skelton Hour''. He then had an uncredited role in the 1955 film ''A Man Called Peter'', based on the life of the [[U.S. Senate]] chaplain Peter Marshall. In 1957, he portrayed Jimmy Logan in the episode "Bentley and the Baby Sitter" on CBS's ''Bachelor Father'' series, with [[The John Forsythe Show|John Forsythe]] and Noreen Corcoran.<ref name=imdb/> In 1957, Kelman played the role of Elmer in the last of the ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' films, ''The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm.'' This was the last screen appearance by Marjorie Main.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/62952#readMore|title=Synopsis of ''The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm''|publisher=blockbuster.com|accessdate=August 20, 2012}}</ref>  

Kelman is adopted. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifa.zoomshare.com/album/California%20Adoptees/images/87ef9e550e815da1e445c13e8f747765_12123618110/:album|title=California Adoptees: Ricky Kelman|publisher=ifa.zoomshare.com|accessdate=November 23, 2012; now under a pay wall}}</ref> His first appearances were as a choirboy in 1954 and 1955 on ''The Red Skelton Hour''. He then had an uncredited role in the 1955 film ''A Man Called Peter'', based on the life of the [[U.S. Senate]] chaplain Peter Marshall. In 1957, he portrayed Jimmy Logan in the episode "Bentley and the Baby Sitter" on CBS's ''Bachelor Father'' series, with [[The John Forsythe Show|John Forsythe]] and Noreen Corcoran.<ref name=imdb/> In 1957, Kelman played the role of Elmer in the last of the ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' films, ''The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm.'' This was the last screen appearance by Marjorie Main.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/62952#readMore|title=Synopsis of ''The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm''|publisher=blockbuster.com|accessdate=August 20, 2012}}</ref>  

    

    

In 1958-1959, young Kelman was cast in three episodes as Homer Foley on [[NBC]]'s children's western series, ''Buckskin'', with Tommy Nolan and Sally Brophy as a son and a mother living in a hotel in a small [[Montana]] town.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446989/|title=Ricky Kelman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> In 1958, Kelman appeared in the episode "The Unfamiliar" of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s ''General Electric Theater'' on CBS.<ref name=imdb/>

In 1958-1959, young Kelman was cast in three episodes as Homer Foley on [[NBC]]'s children's western series, ''Buckskin'', with Tommy Nolan and Sally Brophy as a son and a mother living in a hotel in a small [[Montana]] town.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446989/|title=Ricky Kelman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> In 1958, Kelman appeared in the episode "The Unfamiliar" of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s ''General Electric Theater'' on CBS.<ref name=imdb/>