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Forgotten, Not Gone

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RicoGregg

Thought of some TV names you don't hear about anymore...

Ken Howard The White Shadow

Karen Valentine Room 222

Michael Cole The Mod Squad

Johnny Crawford The Rifleman

Mike Evans All in the Family, The Jeffersons

Veronica Hamel Hill Street Blues

Bonnie Franklin One Day at a Time

Mariette Hartley Many bomb shows

Gary Sandy WKRP in Cincinnati

Burt Ward Batman

Donna Pescow Angie, Out of This World

The Somanski Sisters Lawrence Welk

Jay Johnson Soap

Susan Richardson Eight is Enough

Larraine Newman Original Saturday Night Live

Donna Dixon Bosom Buddies

Marilu Henner Taxi

Kent McCord Adam-12

David Garrison Married, With Children

BernNadette Stanis Good Times


I'd list more, but I've forgotten them. :)

I'm not wondering where they are now, I don't care. I'm sure they're doing fine, wherever they are. I'm just noting the contrast between their TV heydays, when you heard about them all time, and how the exposure can dissipate, and you never even notice.

Did you forget anyone?
 
You cared enough to think of them and list them, Rico. 8)

I last heard from Ken Howard when he hosted a weekly syndicated reality show (before the term existed) in 1986-87 called "Dreamgirl USA" (I think). It was basically a weekly beauty pageant, tournament style like "Dance Fever" with Deney Terio (you forgot him! :)) with talent portion, fitness portion, interview portion, etc. It aired in Philly on WTAF-29 (now WTXF Fox 29).

Karen Valentine I last remember seeing in the summer of 1979 when she was on a pilot for a rejected ABC sitcom whose title and plot escape me right now.

ixnay
 
I haven't heard of Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company)
in years, nor many of the supporting cast of Happy
Days: Donny Most, Anson Williams, or Erin Moran.

And whatever happened to Julie Sommars (The
Governor And J.J.)? Or the two guys on Emergency!:
Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth? Or Scoey Mitchlll
(that's how he spells it), of the 1970 all-black version of
Barefoot In The Park?

If you want to go 'way back to the '50s and early-to-mid
'60s, I can think of these:

Will Hutchins Sugarfoot, Blondie ('68 version,
and where is Patricia Harty, who
played on Blondie and, before that,
Occasional Wife?)

Ty Hardin Bronco

Dorothy Provine The Roaring Twenties

Lola Albright Peter Gunn

Pam Freeman The Pruitts Of Southampton (she was
Phyllis Diller's daughter)

Cheryl Miller Daktari

Bill Mumy Lost In Space

Butch Patrick (no relation) The Munsters

Patty Petersen The Donna Reed Show (she's Paul Petersen's
real-life sister and his adopted sister on the show)

any of the "sons" on My Three Sons

Stephen Young Judd For The Defense
 
RicoGregg said:
Bonnie Franklin One Day at a Time

Gary Sandy WKRP in Cincinnati

Burt Ward Batman
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Franklin I believe has more/less retired.

I seem to recall Sandy was doing some broadway show not too long ago and Ward I believe still does
public appearances with Adam West.


RicoGregg said:
Donna Dixon Bosom Buddies


BernNadette Stanis Good Times
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At least 2 times a year Dixon and her husband Dan Ackroyd travels to Winchester, VA to see Donna's brother-in-law who lives in the area. Not uncommon when they are to here to see those two hanging around the local shopping centers and
restaurants.

Stanis still acts.

Forgotten, Not Gone?
The cast of Alice !!!!

Linda Lavin and Polly Holiday both still acts and the actress who played Joliene was in a few movies recently but whatever became of Vera ( Beth Howland ). Her husband Elliot? Tommy?

Vic Tayback ( Mel ) died in 1990. A few years back the now defunct American Bear magazine ( a gay porn mag ) for some reason unearthed an old pic of Tayback from the 80s..attending a gay-bear party in Columbus, Ohio.

how about...
Allan Keyser ( Bubba from Mama's Family )
Laurie Faso ( Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine )
Laurie Metcalf ( Jackie from Roseanne )
Tom Arnold ( last I heard he had become quite conservative recently )
Sarah Purcell ( Real People )
 
Ken Howard did plat Jordan's father on Crossing Jordan. I do not know if that show is still on the network or just in re=runs.
 
Randolph Mantooth has been on one of the soaps for a long time ("One Life To Live", maybe?)

Kevin Tighe played the father of one of the castaways on "Lost", and has been in movies like "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" (He was the husband of the Mary Steenburgen character who was carrying on with Johnny Depp). He also played Herb Clutter, the farmer whose family was killed, in the TV movie remake of "In Cold Blood" about 10 years ago.

Tom Arnold was on "The Best D*** Sports Show Period" for a number of years, and now hosts "My Big Fat Redneck Wedding" (I think that's what it's called) on CMT.

ETA: I believe Marilu Henner is on "Celebrity Apprentice". She looks like she's getting along much better than her former "Taxi" costar, Jeff Conaway, who looks pretty bad on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew".
 
Ken Howard is still very much around, and working steadily. I've seen him numerous times in guest appearances. Last season he guest starred in The Office as the former (retired) Dunder-Mifflin Manager Ed Truck, who the Steve Carell character calls on for advice. According to imdb, he also had parts in the latest Rambo movie, not to mention Michael Clayton. And he did 11 episodes of Cane on CBS.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397432/

I've seen Laurie Metcalf numerous times over the last few years in both dramatic and comedy roles - usually small supporting parts.

Larraine Newman has not worked much since she left SNL many years ago, but was in one or two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
 
He joins Zara Cully (George's mother), Franklin Cover (Tom Willis), Roxie Roker (Helen Willis [and Lenny Kravitz's mother]) and Isabel Sanford (Louise).
 
I saw Gary Sandy in a Lifetime movie not too long ago. And Ty Hardin was scheduled to appear at the most recent "Hollywood Collectors Show" in Burbank. Here's a link to their website and you can look around on it for other names of forgotten, not gone, folks.

http://www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/
 
Aljr said:
Who played Thelma on "Good Times"? She was a knockout.
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Bernadette Stanis. She still is a knockout. If you happen to see a rerun of The Wayans Brothers, check out her and Johnny Brown in a parody of Good Times where one of the Wayans has a dream about the show.
 
"The White Shadow" runs as off-hour filler material on SNY.

Burt Ward became a big-time concert and record promoter and made so
much cash he no longer needed acting.

Marilu Henner hosted that awful, awful daytime talk show....I think she was
47 going on 16.

Karen Valentine, Gary Sandy and Kent McCord dropped right off the face
of the earth as far as I know. And Valentine was a pretty big deal when
I was a youngster.
 
"Karen Valentine, Gary Sandy and Kent McCord dropped right off the face of the earth as far as I know".

Not hardly, according to the imdb. Though all 3 have experienced some lean times since their initial success, all 3 work steadily, though not in high profile roles. Sandy has done some soap operas, Valentine does stage work, and McCord does TV, the occasional movie, and voice-overs. All 3 have a fair number of credits over the past decade and a half. If the pic of McCord on imbd is any indication, he looks about the same as always, though his hair is gray. Of course, the pic could be from 10 years ago.

Both McCord and Sandy have their own websites. They may no longer be stars by the standards we like to apply, but they're probably all living very comfortably.
 
Here's a few more memory-jarers. Had to really tax my memory for these:

Richard Moll Night Court

Judy Graubat The Electric Company

Quinn Cummings Family(?)

Sherry Alberoni Mickey Mouse Club & various guest appearances

Donna Loren Shindig

Denise Nicolas Room 222

Joanne Worley Laugh-In

Patricia Morrow Peyton Place

Randy Boone Either Cimmaron Strip or The Virginian

James Drury The Virginian
 
RicoGregg said:
Here's a few more memory-jarers. Had to really tax my memory for these:

Richard Moll Night Court

Judy Graubat The Electric Company

Quinn Cummings Family(?)

Sherry Alberoni Mickey Mouse Club & various guest appearances

Donna Loren Shindig

Denise Nicolas Room 222

Joanne Worley Laugh-In

Patricia Morrow Peyton Place

Randy Boone Either Cimmaron Strip or The Virginian

James Drury The Virginian
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* Moll will appear in the movie 'Razor', coming out in July (no character name listed); also later this year in the movie 'Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas' as Big Jim
* Graubart's not been active since a 1999 movie, 'Judy Berlin' (with Madeline Kahn, just before Kahn's passing); was in on interviews/intros for the second Electric Company DVD release in 2006
* Cummings' last listed acting work was a 1991 ep of Blossom; did casting agent work sometime during the 1980s; was part of a Bio Channel documentary of child stars in 2005
* Alberoni did several voice-over/cartoon parts in the 1970s, last listed in 1984
* Loren quit acting in the late 1960s; writes and performs songs now
* Nicholas last appeared in a 2004 movie, 'Proud'; has become a novelist, her first book got great reviews and was given 2 awards; that book is being adapted by her for the stage, version to be out later in Spring; Nicholas is now writing a second novel.
* Worley did a voice-over for Kingdom Hearts II, a video game that came out in 2005; was on Broadway as of late last year in a musical, 'The Drowsy Chaperone', as Mrs. Tottendale
* Morrow's not listed after 1985, when she did a Peyton Place reunion movie
* Boone has no listed roles since 1987; appeared with Drury at a western film fair in NC in 2003
* Drury's latest listed role was in a 2005 movie, 'Hell to Pay'
 
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