Gloria Champion - Haven’t you ever acted as guardian to something or someone. - Gloria Foster**.
Don SpiffApple - This just a simple polishing Job. - Don M(a)cLean.
Jordan Shavings - peelings, peels or pickings - It’s comedic, what the layers will reveal - Jordan Peele , another MadTV comdian.
Garry Bountyhunter - Even with the correction, any LEO will do - Garry Marshall.
Woodie Passerine - This particular type of bird (though not a parrot) is now associated with dirty talk - Peter Finch.
Foodkeeper Admiral - Nimitz was not the only name associated with football - Refrigerator Perry.
Good ones, 5-4-Fighting, but I just couldn’t get anywhere with them. I can’t place Gloria and Jordan in my memory but I should have been able to figure the others out.
Just logged in and read your PM – too late, I see. Yes, Ed Sullivan (sully van) was correct.
As for Arnold Pilgrim, it’s actually a straightforward clue – the etymology of his last name reflects a practice of certain pious visitors to the Holy Land.