I just found out about this while reading Navy Times.
I recently saw a Bonanza repeat with Tom Bosley and Wally Cox as two candidates for Mayor.
I remember that one. They’re best friends who refuse to say anything bad about each other until one or the other finally says something minor and soon it’s a total roll in the mud.
Trivia 1: He was a Kohen. (Source: an article on genetic genealogy I read some years ago but can’t google, though several places you can find that many of his ancestors were extremely distinguished rabbis and Torah scholars.)
Trivia 2: His first wife died of cancer during the run of Happy Days and he met his second wife (now widow) when his TV wife set them up on a blind date.
I just saw him on an episode of “Still Standing” literally 2 days ago…Wow
This is who we’re looking for next:
Barbara Billingsley, TV mom in the 50s, real last name begins with “B” and TV last name begins with “C” (Cleaver)
Tom Bosely, TV dad in the 70s, real last name begins with “B” and TV last name begins with “C” (Cunningham)
So the next should be a TV SON/DAUGHTER in the 90s, who’s real name begins with a “B” and who’s TV name begins with a “C”
Roseanne Barr/Roseanne Conner? (She was a TV mother but also a daughter and granddaughter to Estelle Parsons and Shelley Winters respectively.) Except she went through so many name changes she might have thrown it off.
Cute story posted on Talking Broadway’s All That Chat message board. It seems a poster’s child was in school with Bosley’s grandson. When the school did a stage production of Beauty and the Beast, though his grandchild wasn’t in it, Bosley showed up for the show and made a opoint of talking with the student who played Maurice (the role he originated on Broadway).
http://tboextra.com/content/2010/oct/20/201021/daddy-dozen-our-favorite-tv-fathers/entertainment/
Here is list of the Daddy Dozen – 12 TV fathers who may not have always known best but they tried:
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Hank Hill (Mike Judge) was an animated blue-collar Southern dad who struggled with expressing his feelings. Deep down he was a lot more sensitive than Homer Simpson.
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Steven Keaton (Michael Gross) played a former '60s rebel who tried to keep an even temper while raising a conservative son on “Family Ties.” Michael Gross had to meld his hippie past with the Republican leanings of his son on “Family Ties.” He proved that politics don’t have to divide relatives.
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Mike Brady (Robert Reed), in the 1970s, was oh so mod as he headed up the ultimate blended family on “The Brady Bunch.”
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Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) was wise, kind and even cool as a modern minister with seven kids on “7th Heaven.”
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Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) represents the most recent incarnation of a single TV father who is trying to connect with his teenage daughter.
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Ray Barone (Ray Romano) on “Everybody Loves Raymond” continued the long tradition of clueless but well-meaning TV dads.
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Martin Crane (John Mahoney) deserves our sympathy as the long suffering father to brainy offspring Frasier and Niles on “Fraiser.”
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George Lopez (George Lopez) wasn’t really playing himself on the “George Lopez” sitcom. The character was a funny blue-collar father who was a great Hispanic role model.
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Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) was a loving pioneer father on “Little House on the Prairie.”
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Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley) was a '50s dad on a beloved '70s TV show who kept his cool around the coolest dude – The Fonz.
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Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) was a funny dad who gave his kids tough love when they needed it on “The Cosby Show.”
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Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) was the kind of wise, small-town father dad every baby boomer wished for and he’s still dispensing advice to Opie because “The Andy Griffith Show” has been in reruns for 40 years.
In an interview a few years ago he said he took the role in the Studio 54 reboot of CABARET because it was the first time in his career he played a role that was both Jewish and a romantic lead. (Clip- Fraulein Schneider is played by Mariette Hartley, known most for her camera commercials and sitcoms in the 70s/80s; Neil Patrick Harris is the emcee.)
He’s one of those actors like Peter Falk and Johnny Depp who sometimes smoked even in interviews. It’s not surprising he died of lung cancer.
Looks like you got the “B” part right: Bob Guccione completes the trifecta.
You can’t get much more 180 degrees from June and Howard than that guy! :eek: