Agnes Moorehead died in 1974 at the age of 73; her mother, a former professional singer with the maiden name Mildred McCauley, survived her by 17 years, dying in 1990 at the age of 109.
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Rob Paulsen, the voice of Pinky from Pinky and the Brain and of many other animated characters, is a former professional hockey player (though by his own admission not a very good one) and gives the money from his autograph shows to the Wounded Warrior Project.
[And is a super nice and talkative guy]
Rob Roy MacGregor joined in one of the earliest Jacobite risings, led by Viscount Dundee. The pipe tune “Bonnie Dundee” is named in honour of Viscount Dundee.
Actor Deep Roy played all the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Each instance of the character was considered a separate role by the Screen Actors Guild, so Roy was paid a fee for each Oompa Loompa he portrayed in a particular scene.
Roy Orbison made only one movie in his career, The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967), which was offered to him after his friend Elvis Presley turned it down.
Roy Rogers Restaurants, named after the cowboy actor, first opened in 1968 in the Bailey’s Crossroads section of Falls Church, Virginia, on the corner of Leesburg Pike and Carlin Springs Road (5603 Leesburg Pike), not far from the Hot Shoppes on Columbia Pike. That Roy Rogers is now a McDonald’s.
George Carlin was the first-ever host of Saturday Night Live in 1975 and of Fridays, an ABC show fashioned after SNL, in 1980.
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George II’s younger son, the Duke of Cumberland, led the Government troops in repressing the Jacobite Rebellion, the '45. At one point, he rode onto the estate of a suspected Jacobite supporter who was alleged to have been sheltering Bonnie Prince Charlie. Cumberland greeted his host by saying, “So, I hear my cousin has been visiting you.”
Charlie Sheen has a tattoo on his chest that looks like a note pinned to it that reads: “Be Back in 15 Minutes.”
Martin Sheen, Celebrity Poker participant, began his acting career in the same building and space as where Howard Lederer began his poker career.
Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during the filming of Apocalypse Now, which is why his weight sometimes varies from scene to scene.
Martin Short’s first acting job was playing a giant Visa card in a TV commercial.
In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the three main characters are named after dogs. Short Round was named after screenwriter Willard Huyck’s dog, which was named after the orphan in The Steel Helmet, Willie is named after Steven Spielberg’s dog, and Indiana is named after George Lucas’s dog.
Willie Nelson attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas for one year.
The name of the Waco Aircraft Company, which manufactured fabric-covered biplanes from 1919 to 1947 is recursive. The company was always in Troy, Ohio, not Waco. The name is generally believed to have come from an early owner and is an acronym for Weaver Aircraft Company of Ohio. It is pronounced “Wah-co”. The company was revived recently in Battle Creek, Michigan, making new airplanes to an old design.
Troy Donahue used his real name, Merle Johnson, for his character in The Godfather: Part II (1974).
Lyndon Baines Johnson loved his early job as a Congressional aide so much that his biographer Robert Caro said he would run up the steps of the U.S. Capitol every morning.
Robert Altman’s son Mike wrote the lyrics for “Suicide is Painless,” the theme song for the film MASH* (1970), when he was only 14 years old.