Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

[CrankyYankee]

Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

The late Mr. Cady was 96. http://westernboothill.blogspot.com/2012/06/rip-frank-cady.html

 

[wbhist]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

For many years before the PJ and GA actor passed away, there had been some confusion between him and another Frank Cady who had been a children's show host ("Mr. Magic Show") at WJRT Channel 12 in Flint, MI, who'd died in 1992, and was listed in a book index of which celebrities died when. That book also listed a Michael Minor who died of AIDS in 1987. Alas, this was a stage manager on such TV shows as Far Out Space Nuts and a production designer of the first few Star Trek movies, and not the still-living singer/actor who'd played Steve Elliott in the last four years of PJ's run (and was once married in real life to that show's longtime co-star Linda Kaye Henning).

 

[gregg75]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

I would think that would qualify for a Me-TV weekend marathon. He was like the 3rd or 4th spot
on Green Acres (or at least a 3 way tie with Haney and Eb). Wonder what his secrets to living so long were?

 

[rnigma1]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

For many years before the PJ and GA actor passed away, there had been some confusion between him and another Frank Cady who had been a children's show host ("Mr. Magic Show") at WJRT Channel 12 in Flint, MI, who'd died in 1992, and was listed in a book index of which celebrities died when. That book also listed a Michael Minor who died of AIDS in 1987. Alas, this was a stage manager on such TV shows as Far Out Space Nuts and a production designer of the first few Star Trek movies, and not the still-living singer/actor who'd played Steve Elliott in the last four years of PJ's run (and was once married in real life to that show's longtime co-star Linda Kaye Henning).

Kind of like how there were two Don Rickles: the comedian, who is still with us, and the long-time NBC announcer who died in the mid-80s. Also, the two Josh Weinsteins: one, a writer/producer on "The Simpsons," the other a writer-performer on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" in its early years. The latter Josh started using the name J. Elvis Weinstein because the Simpsons' Josh already registered the name Josh Weinstein with the Writers' Guild.

 

[landtuna]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Wonder what his secrets to living so long were?

He was skinny and had a good sense of humor?

 

[Mark Giardina]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Am I correct that Frank Cady had to be one of the last of the original cast members of Green Acres left?

 

[Stanislav]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Am I correct that Frank Cady had to be one of the last of the original cast members of Green Acres left?

AFAIK, only Tom Lester (Eb) is still with us.

 

[cd637299]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Am I correct that Frank Cady had to be one of the last of the original cast members of Green Acres left?

AFAIK, only Tom Lester (Eb) is still with us.

Also Mary Grace Canfield ("Ralph").

cd

 

[charles123]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

I would think that would qualify for a Me-TV weekend marathon. He was like the 3rd or 4th spot
on Green Acres (or at least a 3 way tie with Haney and Eb). Wonder what his secrets to living so long were?

I agree

 

[kenglish]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

"Reflecting on his TV career, Cady told the Portland Oregonian in 1995, “You get typecast. I’m remembered for those shows and not for some pretty good acting jobs I did other times. I suppose I ought to be grateful for that. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be remembered at all. I’ve got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world.”

We should all be so lucky.
R.I.P., Sam Drucker.
You made many people happy.

 

[John-Summers]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Likeable, ordinary-looking Frank Cady was proof that a good character actor can often have a much-longer career than the people whose names are above the title. Go to imdb.com and check out the many films and TV series in which he appeared. Comedy, drama, westerns...he did them all, in some pretty impressive films too. Most people probably didn't know him by name, but just about everyone knew him by sight. "Oh, there's that guy." And they liked that guy, over and over again. RIP Frank Cady.

 

[cd637299]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Likeable, ordinary-looking Frank Cady was proof that a good character actor can often have a much-longer career than the people whose names are above the title. Go to imdb.com and check out the many films and TV series in which he appeared. Comedy, drama, westerns...he did them all, in some pretty impressive films too. Most people probably didn't know him by name, but just about everyone knew him by sight. "Oh, there's that guy." And they liked that guy, over and over again. RIP Frank Cady.

Another longevity-filled "that guy" actor was Charles Lane, who lived to be 102. Never top-billed, but seemed to have enjoyed his character-actor status.

But back to the subject....

cd

 

[OldNumber7]

Re: Obit: Frank Cady aka: "Sam Drucker" on "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction"

Just saw Cady in a non-speaking role in a 1954 Hitchcock classic, "Rear Window." He plays the husband in the neighborhood whose dog is killed to coverup a homicide. I've seen this picture half a dozen times and only realized now that it's him.