"Happy Wanderer" TV producer Buddy Noonan documented his travels on film in the 1960's for The Roving Kind and The Happy Wanderers series. He produced, acted in, and narrated The Roving Kind, which first aired on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, California, before the series was broadcast nationally. He enjoyed his career in TV and wrote about his travels as an adventure-travel-cameraman.
As a historian on the old West, Buddy sought to bring a part of it to the average American family, such as his own, with his travelogue series. He often brought the family on location with him. Early in his career, he survived a crash in the Andes when his plane went down. He continued to travel on location to then-unexplored places. Later in life, Buddy was a freelance journalist.
Buddy died of cancer on July 3, 1989 in Glendale, California, the same city in which he was born and raised. Buddy had lived in Hollywood, Palm Springs, Mammoth Lakes, and Arizona. He loved his work until the end.
