Lassie !
Sarah Lee?
Total bitch!
I was going to suggest him so good to see he’s already been listed. And I have a personal anecdote to back up the idea he’s such a nice guy. I was sent to a restaurant to take a few photographs of a charity lunch that Michael was taking part in (a wealthy couple had paid lots of money to have lunch with him and a few other British celebrities). I was given the wrong time and turned up 45 minutes early. I had to wait on my own in an empty bar attached to this London restaurant. Then Michael Palin turns up very early. The staff point out to him that I’m also waiting. He could have sat on his own, but instead he comes up to me and invites me for a drink. We sat for 30 minutes at the bar chatting about travel and whatever other topic came to mind until the others turned up. So friendly and interesting - absolute legend.
Anyway that’s my story. Carry on as you were.
It’s not supposedly, unless you won’t take Betty’s word for it. She says it wasn’t mutual hatred though.
Plenty of people don’t. Many loathe her and the hypnotic powers she wields over women of a certain demographic.
Wrong ! All the Lassies were played by male dogs .
Those sons of bitches!
And bastards too, no doubt. When’s the last time you saw two dogs getting married?
He’s published two volumes of his lifetime diaries, and I can’t recommend them highly enough. Very interesting, intelligent, well-written, and pleasant.
David Tennant. Not everyone likes his Doctor, but everything I’ve heard about him says he’s one of the nicest actors around.
Maybe Peter Capaldi, too, though not as well known outside Whovian circles and the UK.
Liza Minelli once stood up on a folding table in a sweltering, stifling marquee just to express her appreciation to 200 or so singers from half a dozen regional choirs who were going to sing background vocals behind her at a concert she was participating in. We never heard word one from Sarah Brightman or Bruce Springsteen.
I always thought it would be cool to spend a weekend hanging with James Garner (and maybe Mariette Hartley). 
The people who worked with, and for, Garner all seemed to speak very highly of him. But the people Garner worked for didn’t always feel that way. When they tried to screw Garner over on syndication profits for The Rockford Files, he fought back and sued them. And deservedly so, it seems.
Did anyone ask him about Speed Walker?
I’m a heretic in this milieu, in that I detest Pratchett’s works; and Monty Python. However, from everything I’ve heard about these two men as individuals, they definitely belong on this thread’s list.
Since we’ve had a couple of composers from centuries ago: I’d venture to suggest someone else from way back – William Shakespeare. Of course, very little is known about the man himself; but all the fiction which I have come across which has Shakespeare as a character, would seem to present him as a mild-mannered, unassuming, humane and peaceable guy, not at all “up himself” about being the greatest writer in the history of the English language. Is it too fanciful to suspect that the authors have correctly intuited this about him? (Though I’m willing to bet that someone will chime in with example[s] of a nasty Shakespeare-as-character-in-fiction, hitherto unknown to me.)
Johnathan Winters
As mentioned earlier, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day and Tom Hiddleston have the reputation for being incredibly nice people, among those in the geek culture world. It’s hard to tell, though, how much of that can be separated from the fact that they’re also all mind-bogglingly attractive.
If I can pull in pro wrestling, two that come to mind (based on fan reports) are Beth Phoenix and John Cena. A lot of people dislike the on-screen character that Cena plays for the way that he’s dominated the storylines, but off-screen he seems like a good bloke. It says something when he holds the record for the most wishes granted through Make-A-Wish.
Also, of course, Mrs. Foley’s baby boy.
But what about on Tom Hanks’s wife? Huh, what about that?!!