Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 25. Discuss or comment as you please……
1894: Actor Walter Brennan (The Real McCoys, Guns of Will Sonnett) is born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. DYK: True Three Stooges fans should all know that Brennan appeared in an early Stooges short (“Restless Knights”), in which he executes the first-ever “triple slap” upon the boys.
1908: Actor Jack Gilford is born in New York City. With a resume of scads of stage, screen, and TV roles to his credit, Guilford is often fondly remembered by TV fans for a series of humorous, silent TV commercials for Cracker Jack. [I personally also liked his recurring role on Soap as the 4000-year old Saul, who is a fellow abductee aboard the spaceship on which Burt is being held prisoner…]
1923: Actress Estelle Getty (The Golden Girls) is born in New York City. [Yep -- sad to think that she died just a few days shy of her birthday.]
1925: Actor and director Jerry Paris (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Happy Days) is born (as William Gerald Grossman) in San Francisco.
1967: Actor Matt LeBlanc (Friends, Joey) is born in Newton, Massachusetts.
1969: Senator Edward Kennedy goes on TV to read a prepared statement about the incident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts 7 days earlier in which former RFK staffer Mary Jo Kopechne died when the Senator’s car drove off a bridge.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
1894: Actor Walter Brennan (The Real McCoys, Guns of Will Sonnett) is born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. DYK: True Three Stooges fans should all know that Brennan appeared in an early Stooges short (“Restless Knights”), in which he executes the first-ever “triple slap” upon the boys.
1908: Actor Jack Gilford is born in New York City. With a resume of scads of stage, screen, and TV roles to his credit, Guilford is often fondly remembered by TV fans for a series of humorous, silent TV commercials for Cracker Jack. [I personally also liked his recurring role on Soap as the 4000-year old Saul, who is a fellow abductee aboard the spaceship on which Burt is being held prisoner…]
1923: Actress Estelle Getty (The Golden Girls) is born in New York City. [Yep -- sad to think that she died just a few days shy of her birthday.]
1925: Actor and director Jerry Paris (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Happy Days) is born (as William Gerald Grossman) in San Francisco.
1967: Actor Matt LeBlanc (Friends, Joey) is born in Newton, Massachusetts.
1969: Senator Edward Kennedy goes on TV to read a prepared statement about the incident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts 7 days earlier in which former RFK staffer Mary Jo Kopechne died when the Senator’s car drove off a bridge.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
