Fifty something here, and while I know who these folks are I doubt I could’ve identified them from their photos either.
Your point being…? :dubious: 
Your parents wouldn’t let you watch movies when you were a kid?!? :dubious: :eek:
Pink Lady went back to Japan, and Jeff Altman went back to lounges.
My nomination is Richard Carpenter. He was really talented at arranging music. Even after Karen died, you’d think he’d have a career in scoring movies or something. All of his credits are for single songs that are songs from the Carpenters’ era, or documentaries on the duo. Apparently, after Karen’s death, he married (a cousin, whose brother had been their road manager, which is just a little creepy, if you ask me), and they have five kids. He’s just been a family man since Karen died.
I could, but I spent my adolescence mooning over Golden Age movies, and silent films. I can recognize Irene Dunne from any angle, but I can barely remember who was famous in the 1980s. I pretty much only went to art films, French films and Merchant & Ivory films that were new in the 80s. I take that back. I also saw sci-fi, and Children of a Lesser god. But I can name Sigourney Weaver, Marlee Marlin, and Jennifer Jason Leigh from my own time. I can name 50 people from the 20s, 30s and 40s without taking a breath.
I always wonder in there are still adolescents who fall in love with those great old films. Once in a while, I do see a recent post on IMDb under Irene Dunne or Katharine Hepburn, that starts “I’m 17, but I love these old films…”
The 1970s were the last hurrah for the TV variety show, and S&Y were part of that – they made a lot of appearances on other variety shows before getting their own show. It was also the same era that the mime / puppet / mask group Mummenschanz was popular.
I also suspect that S&Y had a very good agent. 
Lorene Yarnell was in Spaceballs – she was the actress inside the Dot Matrix droid costume.
Barbi Benton
Just out of curiosity … who the hell is Heidi Montag??? 
Don’t forget Jericho.
I saw Gary Sandy in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder.
Aye, and my wife just mentioned that he’s now in “This Is Us.”
Jeff Altman also was a regular guest on his friend David Letterman’s talk shows until Letterman retired last year. In fact, most people my age and younger and more likely to remember him from his Letterman appearances than his participation in one of the biggest American network TV fiascos of all time.
As for Richard Carpenter, his focus for the last 30 years has been overseeing (i.e., sponging off) his sister’s legacy. Also, in my view, he comes across as an extreme control freak and a petty dick which is probably why he didn’t continue to play a big role in the music industry.
I’m a 30-something and I couldn’t identify Gregory Peck. Maybe if he were in a more popular Hitchcock movie.
He was Atticus Finch. Doesn’t everyone watch To Kill a Mockingbird in Freshman English when they read the book?
He’s probably never seen Twelve O’Clock High, Gentleman’s Agreement, Roman Holiday, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Pork Chop Hill, or The Guns of Navarone either.
I always figured that Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek) and Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) were typecast by the success of WKRP, and couldn’t successfully move on to other roles. Wikipedia informs me that Bonner later played a headmaster of a Catholic school on a spin-off of Growing Pains, and Sanders had guest star spots in any number of sitcoms and movies, most recently in the 2000 Cuba Gooding Jr./Robert DeNiro film Men Of Honor. However, both men are now in their late seventies, so presumably retired.
Howard Hesseman (Johnny Fever) is the one I’m surprised seemed to disappear. My memory may be faulty, but he was the big breakout star of WKRP. He had one more series that I recall, but after that, I don’t remember hearing about him at all.
Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters, AKA “Ohmigod, she was the hot one, after all!”) apparently left show business in 1987.
A lot of 90s bands that I thought were part of the pantheon of, if not Rock Gods, at least really durable tour bands. The Lemonheads sank fast right after Evan Dando got a short haircut. I’m personally surprised Julianna Hatfield disappeared so utterly; Natalie Merchant, too. Wonder if she bumped into her old band on the way back down?
Of less note, Tim Reid was also Steven’s dad for 9 episodes of That 70s show.
Who remembers Flip Wilson? An African-American who had his own comedy TV show and was so well-known that quotes from his skits became memes (Here Come 'De Judge, and The Devil Made Me Do It). Then after that he more or less dropped off the face of the planet.
He had a short-lived series called Charlie and Co. in 1985, along with Gladys Knight. He died in 1998.
Wasn’t “Here come de Judge!” first done by Sammy Davis Jr on Laugh-In? :dubious:
With the exception of Goldie Hawn, the cast of that show pretty much sank into oblivion after it was cancelled, too. (I hated it, but I really, *really *dug JoAnne Worley! :o )
