Actors Who Seemed to Vanish After Their Shows Went Off The Air

[cd637299]

Last I heard, Demond Wilson was an ordained minister.....I'm sure he's been on TBN.
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Are you sure it is Demond Wilson? I know there was another African-American actor Clifton Davis (who starred in the TV series AMEN) that became an ordained minister.

Both.

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[visaman]

As far as more contemporary people, what about Tom Green? I know he had a bout with testicular cancer some years ago, but as far as I know, he came out with a clean bill of health.

Tom Green is returning to doing stand-up, and downplaying the gross-out humour.

 

[onairb]

Elinor Donahue - The Andy Griffith Show (1961)
Jon Provost - Lassie

Others..hmmmm
*other than bit parts here or there pretty much the entire cast of Alice. I know Linda Lavin had done the Sopranos and a few things like plays and in the recent movie "The Back-Up Plan". The last "Flo" Cella Weston is a favorite of Seth Rogen as she was in his movie the infamous "Observe & Report" and Vic Tayback was doing ads for Heniz 57 just before his 1990 death..but everyone else...

Celia Weston ('Jolene') has a recurring role on the TNT crime drama Memphis Beat..as does Daniel Hugh Kelly, formerly of Hardcastle and McCormick and I Married Dora

 

[Tim L]

Demond Wilson also made several local guest appearances on WDLI-TV 17 in Canton, Ohio in the early 1980's, when the station was owned by David Livingstone Foundation, (Before the station was sold to TBN) on telethons and such..Rosey Grier also made such appearances..Otherwise, he wasnt seen much after Daniel Boone in 1970.

 

[BRNout]

Someone mentioned Fran Drescher; well, she actually has a new daytime talk show coming out on FOX.

 

[jwk1979]

Elinor Donahue - The Andy Griffith Show (1961)

Elinor Donahue went on to do that early 90's FOX sitcom with Chris Elliot called "Get A Life". Donahue also did a short lived sitcom called Mulligan's Stew back in the mid 70's. Actually the promo for this ( done on Dick Clark's Good Ol'e Days ) is more remembered than the actual show.else...

John Barbour (Real People)

Elinor Donahue also played Luther's (Jerry Van Dyke) girlfriend on "Coach" for a few seasons or so before the show moved the setting from Minnesota to Orlando, FL.

John Barbour hosted a few Real People like shows on SHOWTIME in the mid 80's and was recently on an episode of CSI as an old time Vegas comic that was murdered by his former partner, played by Tim Conway.

 

[firepoint525]

Mindy Cohn (Natalie from The Facts of Life) was not seen until recently, when she appeared on an episode of What Not To Wear. For those of you who haven't seen it, she hasn't changed at all. Her hair is shorter now, but her voice is still the same. She was dressing "frumpy," so I suppose that made her a good candidate for the show! ;D

 

[71dude]

The cast of Mr. Belvedere
Alex Karras and Susan Clark (Webster)
Loretta Swit (MASH)
Marsha Warfield (Night Court)

 

[Iowan]

The cast of Critter Gitters also seemed to have vanished after their show ceased production....

 

[dmargalotti]

Diana Canova from "Soap" and "I'm a Big Girl Now" with Danny Thomas.

 

[davalvideo]

When was the last time we saw Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan"s Island) on the TV screen? The only time I saw her was in the 90s when she made a cameo with other GI alums on an episode of Rosanne. I also saw her when the GI cast was inducted into the TV Land Hall of Fame some years back. In her sixities, she was still beautiful.

 

[bpatrick]

I don't recall seeing David White (Larry Tate on "Bewitched") after
that show was canceled. Interestingly, during the show's last three
seasons he had moved up to the opening credits, behind Elizabeth
Montgomery, Dick Sargent, and Agnes Moorehead.

Another actor I haven't seen in years is Monte Markham. ABC was
pushing him as a coming star in the late '60s ("The Second Hundred
Years" and "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"); in 1973 he played Perry Mason
on CBS for a few weeks (I doubt Raymond Burr lost any sleep), and the
last I remember of him was on the syndicated 1980s soap "Rituals".

 

[mleach]

Another actor I haven't seen in years is Monte Markham. ABC was
pushing him as a coming star in the late '60s ("The Second Hundred
Years" and "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"); in 1973 he played Perry Mason
on CBS for a few weeks (I doubt Raymond Burr lost any sleep), and the
last I remember of him was on the syndicated 1980s soap "Rituals".

Monte Markham was alongside with Telly Savalas in the 1973 horror/thriller movie "Visions" ( though I have seen it listed "Visions of Death". The movie was nothing more about some guy who had declaired "war" on the state of Colorado by deciding to blow up parts of Denver ( example: Elitch Gardens amusement park and the I-25/Colfax Ave interchange ).

Interesting thing about "Visions" for TV "freaks" such as us ...in one scene Markham is watching long time Denver TV news achor the late Bob Palmer on "KLZ-TV 7"..then about 30 minutes later one sees a station wagon parking next to Markham's sporting the call letters "KMGH-TV 7"..and according to IMDB..the voice used on KLZ-TV for some unknown reason reason wasn't Bob Palmer's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069465/trivia

 

[onairb]

I don't recall seeing David White (Larry Tate on "Bewitched") after
that show was canceled. Interestingly, during the show's last three
seasons he had moved up to the opening credits, behind Elizabeth
Montgomery, Dick Sargent, and Agnes Moorehead.

Another actor I haven't seen in years is Monte Markham. ABC was
pushing him as a coming star in the late '60s ("The Second Hundred
Years" and "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"); in 1973 he played Perry Mason
on CBS for a few weeks (I doubt Raymond Burr lost any sleep), and the
last I remember of him was on the syndicated 1980s soap "Rituals".

My father saw White filming a TV-Movie ('Twin Detectives') in a hotel lobby in the mid-70s. White's son was one of the victims of the Pan-Am 103 Lockerbie bombing in late 1988, and so White, who was pretty much retired by then anyway, pretty much disappeared for the last few years of his life.

Markham had a recurring role on 'The Golden Girls', as Blanche's brother (who was gay). I think he showed up on 'Cold Case' a year or two ago.

 

[Ultimajock]

...I can't recall seeing Steve Landesburg after Barney Miller was cancelled...

 

[Mark Giardina]

What ever happened to the kid who played on Webster?

Also:

Ann B. Davis -The Brady Bunch
Sally Struthers ( All in the Family) before she became a poster child for Jenny Craig.
Norm & Carla on Cheers.
The guy who played "The Flash" on TV.
And especially Dennis Franz- NYPD Blue. ???

 

[LKellerIII]

What ever happened to the kid who played on Webster?

Also:

Norm & Carla on Cheers.

Carla on Cheers is Rhea Perlman, AKA Ms. Danny DeVito - did not disappear. She hasn't starred in any other TV series, but she has acted in dozens of guest roles in TV and movies.

When my daughter (now 14) was young, one of her favorite films was Matilda (1996), in which Perlman and DeVito play Matilda's comically evil parents.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674231/

 

[FreddyE1977]

Also:

Ann B. Davis -The Brady Bunch

She joined a religious community (as I understand it, similar to being a nun, but not Catholic, some
other denomination) and pretty much dropped out of acting. She was living outside of Pittsburgh
in the mid-1990's and was frequently seen in the area. I believe she has since moved on with her
religious work to Colorado. And of course she made that cameo appearance in The Brady Bunch Movie.

 

[FreddyE1977]

When was the last time we saw Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan"s Island) on the TV screen? The only time I saw her was in the 90s when she made a cameo with other GI alums on an episode of Rosanne. I also saw her when the GI cast was inducted into the TV Land Hall of Fame some years back. In her sixities, she was still beautiful.

Tina Louise appeared in a 1996 episode of Married With Children as the Dean of a modeling school
that Kelly Bundy was attending. Last thing I recall seeing her in.

 

[MattParker]

Monte Markham is producing documentaries. I've seen him listed in the credits for some on A&E, Bio and The History Channel, and he narrated some of them, as well.