And she married Mark Twain. However, she was replaced on the show with Mary Ann Mobley after half a season (possibly due to death threats from the kids in the cast).
The second tier of actors on this series all went on to lead roles in other series. Robert Walden was on Brothers which lasted for five seasons; Linda Kelsey starred in Day by Day which was on for two seasons, and Jack Bannon starred in the short-lived Trauma Center for a season.
Oh man, I just came to post that we’re related. I had no idea! :eek:
Dann Florek, you mean. He was fairly regular for awhile in one of the later seasons, especially since he was the firm’s receiver for many episodes.
But anyway, you’ve forgotten a certain guy named Jimmy Smits (Victor Sifuentes), who went on to huge success in NYPD Blue and is now running for president on The West Wing! And speaking of TWW, Jimmy’s running mate is current chief of staff Leo McGarry, played since the series premiered by fellow LA Law grad John Spencer (Tommy Mullaney). Spencer won an Emmy a couple of years ago for his amazing portrayal of Leo.
Yummy Blair Underwood (Jonathan) has been in a lot of movies (the big screen kind) and had lead roles in a couple of TV flops, most recently LAX with Heather Locklear. He also memorably played Miranda’s neighbor/lover on Sex and the City. And he does the voice of the father on Fatherhood, the animated sitcom by Bill Cosby on Nick @ Nite.
I know Michele Greene (Abby) and Jill Eikenberry (Ann Kelsey) have starred in like a kabillion TV movies. (I seem to recall Eikenberry is a breast cancer survivor and has spent a lot of time as an advocate for research.) Corbin Bernsen (Arnie) ain’t too shabby in the TV movie field either, but lately has been a regular on two soaps – first Young & the Restless (performing with his mom, uberdiva Jeanne Cooper), and now on General Hospital. mmm, who am I forgetting? Oh whatsername, Susan something who played Roxanne – she had a semi-regular role as Brian Dennehy’s wife in a string of mystery TV movies.
Finally there are a couple of those final season latecomers – Debi Mazar, whose character name I don’t remember, is on HBO series Entourage; Alan Rosenberg (Eli) had a semi-regular role on Cybill for a few years; and Michael Cumpsty – whose character basically replaced Arnie as the firm’s resident bastard – has moved to theater, starring in many Broadway plays and musicals. I saw him in 1776 as Dickenson – did a great job!
(Dayum I know waaaay too much about these people. What can I say, LA Law was one of my favorite TV series ever.)
Ooh … don’t mean to pick on you, Otto, but:
Blasphemer! It’s Sports Night, dammit! 
Guillaume’s also done many voiceovers in animated films, most notably in The Lion King and its myriad sequels.
Faith Ford was in that awful show with Norm MacDonald… and Hope and Faith, an equally awful show with Kelly Rippa.
She was in the Wonder Woman episode Amazon Hot Wax which also featured Rick Springfield and Judge Reinhold.
Hmmmn.
I guess Tim Reid’s show {url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108927/]Sister, Sister which ran for five years meant nothing.
And his highly acclaimed show Frank’s Place only ran a year.
Howard Hesseman’s show Head of the Class he was only on for four years.
The only member of the cast who hasn’t worked regularly in movies or TV is Jan mithers(Bailey Quarters). Do you ever do research or do you just blow smoke and wait for someone to call you on it?
Wow. I had no idea a afour year show was a flop. Who knew?
Well, it certainly didn’t compair to Harry Anderson’s popularity on Night Court.
The John Laroquette Show wasn’t very good, either. IMHO, they made a mistake by dropping the main character’s alcoholism. After that, it was just another forgettable sitcom.
So? The quality isn’t relevant in this thread.
Laroquette also had a show two seasons ago called Happy Family with Christine Baranski.
(Bolding mine.) Which adds a new, previously unknown to me level to the conversation between him and Felicity Huffmann when she went to see that play. Thanks for the info!
Robert Pastorelli has done a kajillion movies since then.
And yet that same IMDB page lists his last credit as “Score with Chicks” in 1994. I have images of a skelaton in bad polyester stumbling around after scantily clad bimbos, jabbering inane, flat one-liners. The buck-toothed smile is still the same. :eek:
I need to go scrub my brain.
Tim Reid and his wife, Daphne Maxwell Reid, also own New Millineium Studios in Petersburg, VA.
Just adding a few tidbits about various actors, in no particular order:
Robert Pastorelli had a pretty good career after “Murphy Brown,” but he died (I think from an overdose) a few years ago.
Robert Guillaume had a pretty good role in the recent Ewan McGregor/Albert Finney/Tim Burton movie “Big Fish.” (It wasn’t a huge role for Guillaume, but notable—you can’t miss him.)
I’ve seen Markie Post guest star on other things, and she had a role in a sitcom with John Ritter and Billy Bob Thornton in the 90s (“Hearts Afire”), which I believe is coming out on DVD soon.
John Laroquette is now working on some detective show (I think it’s a detective show) for the Hallmark Channel.
Jimmy Smits has been in two of the most recent Star Wars movies. (He looks fabulous in this most recent one.)
Max Gail (from “Barney Miller”) has guest starred on other things. I remember seeing him in an episode of “Due South.”
And during the filming of SportsNight, he suffered a stroke which was actually written into the show (pretty cool). So that may be another reason he’s no longer as active as he once was.
Not to menion his star turn in D.C. Cab.
And to correct an earlier post of mine, Who’s the Boss? debuted in 1984, not 1982, so there were a couple of Hellmondless seasons.
The hell? Oh, you got me, killer.
Let it be known throughout the land from this point forward that Katherine Hellmond, Tim Reid, John Laroquette, Harry Anderson, Howard Hessman and every other cast member of every show I listed in my original post to this thread have had the careers beyond their wildest dreams, and I am eternally shamed for besmirching their good names. They truly are the stuff of Hollywood legend. I am unworthy! Boooo!!! Boooo!!! :rolleyes:
Max Gail largely quit acting when his wife died from cancer, leaving him the single dad of a small child. He has since remarried and has become more active. (Trivia: at the height of his career he lived in a geodesic dome he built from a kit. He bought some property in Malibu with his first “big-money” pay, then built the dome on it, then slowly built a house as he could afford it (he has a background in construction). The home was featured on one of the cable channels recently and it’s beautiful (and the dome is now an office on the property).
Markie Post also starred in a failed pilot for a remake of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl which was MESSED UP! It was closer to The Shield than to anything Sid and Marty had imagined.
I think you were right to be called on it Dooku… Just saying.
Heh! I can just see it. “Now THAT’S what I call an electra-shakedown!”