# Dwayne Hickman - Dead at 87 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 10, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498 "2022-01-10T02:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/21 "2022-01-10T22:20:57Z")
“Ma’am, I apologize for my disgusting condition and I assure you I will not inflict myself on you any further.” ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/22 "2022-01-10T22:27:06Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I really, really, really loved that show. No, really? Dan ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/23 "2022-01-10T23:31:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Maynard G. Krebs: the “G” stands for Walter. The “G” was silent. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/24 "2022-01-11T00:35:21Z")
Sorry to hear this. Like others, I loved Dobie Gillis. In an odd coincidence, I thought of the show just yesterday. I was reading the thread on vanilla extract and remembered an episode where Zelda was threatening to commit suicide. She carried a bottle prominently labeled “POISON.” Near the end of the show, she actually drank the contents of the bottle. It was (of course) vanilla extract. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/25 "2022-01-11T00:59:44Z")
The middle name ‘Walter’ was named for his aunt, as well as being silent. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/26 "2022-01-11T01:37:01Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > No, really? > > Dan Nope, it was all a lie. Got you on that one, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/27 "2022-01-11T14:51:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The middle name ‘Walter’ was named for his aunt, as well as being silent. How did I not know this??? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/28 "2022-01-11T15:42:51Z")
Ignorance fought. That’s what it’s all about. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/29 "2022-01-11T15:52:15Z")
I liked Dobie, from what I could recall. I really liked the innovation of Dobie speaking directly to the audience while standing in front of a copy of Rodin’s _The Thinker_ – a great way to show that we were getting Dobie’s internal thoughts. Although he appeared in a number of other things, there are only three I recall him from. **Cat Ballou** has already been mentioned. But how many people remember him from the UPA animated version of **1001 Arabian Nights**? He voiced Aladdin. This movie starred Jim Backus as Mister Magoo (Aladdin’s uncle) three years before they made Magoo’s Christmas Carol. It also featured the voices of Daws Butler (as I call him, “the poor man’s Mel Blanc”) , Herschel Bernardi (as the genie. He was the voice of Charlie the Tuna), Hans Conreid (as the Evil Vizier) and Kathryn Grant as the Princess (she also played Princess Parisa in Ray Harryhausen’s _Seventh Voyage of Sinbad_ that year). It’s colorful and was a musical, and I’ve long suspected that the folks at Disney strip-mined this as well as the 1940 _Thief of Baghdad_ for inspiration when they set out to make their own _Aladdin._ Hickman plays an honest and earnest part and, IIRC, he gets to sing. He also starred in a TV movie that was supposed to be a springboard for a series, but wasn’t picked up. In _We’ll Take Manhattan_ he played lawyer Lucas Redstone who was trying to help an Indian tribe regain its property in Manhattan that had been improperly purchased by Peter Minuit from the wrong tribe. I remember thinking at the time that there might be some real interesting possibilities there, but this was 1967 and there was no chance of this being handled with any tact or respect for indigenous people. Although I’m sure that wasn’t the reason the network dropped this like a hot potato, and it went nowhere. Dobie Gillis showed up in a couple of retro snapshot in 1977 (“Whatever happened to Dobie Gillis?”) and 1988 (the wonderfully titled “Bring me the Head of Dobie Gillis”) that reunited him with remaining cast members, but I never saw those. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/30 "2022-01-11T16:48:13Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > No, really? > > > Dan Nope, it was all a lie. Got you on that one, didn’t I? Ah, you a very funny fellow; I kill you last! Dan ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/31 "2022-01-11T17:11:17Z")
Be glad you didn’t. They were limp, sad, cliched and humorless. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498/32 "2022-01-11T20:49:57Z")
He was on a Wagon Train episode, “The Clay Shelby Story”. A 14 year old Confederate drummer boy, he was captured and became a Galvanised Yankee, and deserted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-hickman-dead-at-87/957498.md?page=1)