(From the "Boston Globe")
LOS ANGELES -- Comedian Louis Nye, who created a national catchphrase belting out ''Hi Ho, Steverino" as one of the stock players on Steve Allen's groundbreaking 1950s TV show, has died. He was 92.
Mr. Nye, who was born in Hartford, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles after battling lung cancer, his son, Peter, said yesterday.
Mr. Nye was born on May 1, 1913, in Hartford, where he began his career in theater before moving to New York City to enter radio.
On ''The Steve Allen Show," which ran until 1961 under various names, he quickly endeared himself to audiences as Gordon Hathaway, the effete, country club snob who would welcome Allen's arrival with the ''Hi, ho, Steverino!" salutation.
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LOS ANGELES -- Comedian Louis Nye, who created a national catchphrase belting out ''Hi Ho, Steverino" as one of the stock players on Steve Allen's groundbreaking 1950s TV show, has died. He was 92.
Mr. Nye, who was born in Hartford, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles after battling lung cancer, his son, Peter, said yesterday.
Mr. Nye was born on May 1, 1913, in Hartford, where he began his career in theater before moving to New York City to enter radio.
On ''The Steve Allen Show," which ran until 1961 under various names, he quickly endeared himself to audiences as Gordon Hathaway, the effete, country club snob who would welcome Allen's arrival with the ''Hi, ho, Steverino!" salutation.
(Read more at
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ob...e_92_comedian_sidekick_to_steve_allen?mode=PF
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"What's That?" "French Horns!"
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