That was Mike Douglas, the talk show host. Not Michael Douglas, actor and scion of Kirk Douglas.
Maybe that sequel to The Graduate that was pitched in The Player will finally get made now. Quick, someone call Netflix. They’ll make anything.
A great multi-talent. He had the unenviable task of writing the script for Candy (1968), and makes a cameo in a straitjacket.
He would have been the ideal actor to play Hunter S. Thompson.
Buck Henry did not appear in the first show;he is not listed in the episode guide (which confirms O’Donoghue). He did host Episode 10 of the first season.
Of course, Henry wrote one of the best known single-word movie quotes ever, one everyone can easily identify:
“Plastics.”
Except that Andy was doing his bit in comedy clubs long before that.
Yes it was. Not sure why I wrote Michael.
That’s probably when the obituary was written or last updated. When J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1982, his obituary in The Times had been originally written by C. S. Lewis before his death in 1963.