Big Guy Beck

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Big Guy Beck, played first by actor Slim Pickens, and after his death, by Forrest Tucker, was a fictional character on the television series, Filthy Rich.

Big Guy was a land baron who owned the huge mansion, Toad Hall, in Memphis, Tennessee. Although not often seen, because he was mainly seen via videotape, he was the main reason of a lot of fighting, within his family.

Big Guy and his first wife, Winona, better known as Mother B. (Nedra Volz) had two sons, snobbish Marshall (Michael Lombard) and independently wealthy and nicer Stanley (Charles Frank). Stanley was unmarried, and Marshall was married to his equally snotty wife, Carlotta (Dixie Carter).

Sometime before the show began, he and Mother B. divorced, and he married young and voluptuous Kathleen (Delta Burke). Also before the show, he had died (how he died was not certain, but it had to have been of an illness because of his wishes to be cryogenically frozen) and before his death and being frozen, he left his videotaped will, which his lawyer, George Wilhoit, showed a portion of to the family every week.

During the will's reading, his family discovered that he had another son, who was born illegitimately. His name was Wild Bill Westchester (Jerry Hardin) and he was married to gentle and sweet natured (but somewhat ditzy) Bootsie (Ann Wedgeworth).

Part of the will's stipulations in regard to Big Guy's family receiving his money, was to welcome Wild Bill and Bootsie into the family.

The kind Stanley readily welcomed Wild Bill and Bootsie; Mother B. welcomed them as well; even though he wasn't really her son (to the senile Mother B., she felt that he was); but the conniving Marshall and Carlotta were absolutely horrified to hear about this new heir.

They did everything humanly possible to rid themselves of Wild Bill and his wife, not to mention everyone else in their family and the constraints of the will. Naturally, their outlandish schemes failed.