Funny, I never pictured Pickles as a tall blonde. I always thought she’d look like Mrs Wollowitz on Big Bang Theory.
Tuesday marked the 93rd birthday of one the most prolific ‘hey it’s that guy’ character actors, James Hong. We’ve all seen him (449 acting credits on IMDB) and hardly anyone knows his name. Happy Birthday, Mr. Ping.
I just saw him in the Taxi episode “Honor Thy Father.” Alex mistook him for his father, who was played by this guy, another prolific character actor:
I viewed an old fave movie, What’s Up Doc? (1972) and there was a semi-young MEW, as a deputy/bailiff in Liam Dunn’s courtroom…
Dunn: What are these people charged with?
MEW: That’s kinda hard to say, Your Honor.
Dunn: Give it a shot.
MEW: Well, we fished most of them out of San Francisco Bay…
Dunn: They were entering the country illegally?
MEW: No sir, they drove in.
Dunn: Into the country?
MEW: Into the bay!
I’m fairly certain Alex Ross used him as his model for Reed Richards in Marvels.
NB: Her name was Ann Marie. Marie was her surname (SFAIK, she had no middle name).
Her name sounding “incomplete” was a gag used in the unaired pilot “What’s in a Name?” and its reworked version (S1 E11).
I remember that episode with Russell Johnson. Don tells Ann not to worry: “This is a small plane; we can glide quite a way.” I’ve always wondered how true that was.
He’ll always be Hysterium to me
Thanks. It’s been a while, obviously.
I first remember him as The Cracker Jack Guy.
That’s right. I remember him best from Lou Grant, where he played an older guy whom Lou befriended. IIRC, he liked to wear hats.
What did you learn in school today?
Sharing!
These two were in today’s episode of Bonanza, “Song in the Dark”:
Edward I remember best as Captain Binghamton’s WAVE counterpart on Broadside.
In addition to being Folger coffee’s “Mrs Olsen,” Virginia was most memorable as “Immigrant Eva” in Billy the Kid vs Dracula:
EVA: Vat’s de matter, child?
BETTY: Oh, it’s Billy. Lately he’s been asking me to do the strangest things…
EVA: Vat does he vant you to do, child?
BETTY: Well, just this morning, he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a mirror for him.
EVA: (Gasp!) De vampire test!
BETTY: What?
EVA: Oh…nothing…
Before he was “Ernie” in My Three Sons, this guy was in the Dick van Dyke episode “The Talented Neighborhood.”
The first time I flew in a four-seater, the pilot (a friend of my dad’s) chose to assure me of our safety (I wasn’t concerned) by killing the engine. It seemed to make no difference until you looked at the altimeter, which was slowly going down. He told me, “If anything goes wrong, we’ll have plenty of time to glide to a place we can land.”
I think I was surfing Tubi the other day and stumbled across “Death Race 2000.”
Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov…remember “Eating Raoul?”
But the one that jumped out was Joyce Jameson. Remember the “fun girls” on Andy Griffith? She played Skippy.
I’ve flown in four- and two-seaters. I wouldn’t be concerned about the engine cutting out, but I would be worried about staying airborne long enough to find a place to land, and how we’d control our airspeed when we attempted it.
IIRC, Ann and Don were flying over upstate New York. Good luck finding a flat open space in the Adirondacks.
Just saw good ol’ Bob in the Bowery Boys’ Feudin’ Fools (1952). See if you can guess what kind of role he plays. 
This guy is in the movie too, as a bank robber on the run:
I like to think of him as “Senator Lyle Talbot” on Green Acres. 
I believe they were flying over upstate New York at night in winter. Not good.
From that IMDB link, I like the reveal that Commissioner Gordon was Lex Luthor all along!
Back when I was a corporate guy my first flight on the company jet was from Cincinnati to Brussels. I’d looked up the specs on the plane and I remember the range being a tad skimpy for the air miles between the two airports. When I expressed this to the pilot he assured me that we had enough fuel to get to the crash site. I had the feeling he’d used that line a lot.