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Dick Gautier, Hymie the Robot on 'Get Smart,' Dies at 85
Hollywood Reporter ^
| 1/14/2017
| Mike Barnes
Posted on 01/14/2017 11:41:54 AM PST by chrisinoc
Dick Gautier, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Bye, Bye Birdie and then famously played Hymie the Robot on the sitcom Get Smart, has died. He was 85.
Gautier died Friday night at an assisted living facility in Arcadia, Calif., after a long illness, his daughter Denise told The Hollywood Reporter.
Gautier, who started his career as a stand-up comic, received a Tony nomination for playing Conrad Birdie, the character based on Elvis Presley, in the memorable, original 1960 production of Bye, Bye Birdie, starring Dick Van Dyke.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dickgautier; gautier; obituary
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:41:54 AM PST
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chrisinoc
To: chrisinoc
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:43:42 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: chrisinoc
Back when "comedies" were actually funny.
RIP
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:46:02 AM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(FUMSM)
To: chrisinoc
One of my favorite shows as a kid. RIP, Hymie.
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:46:28 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
To: chrisinoc
I was a Marine at 29 Palms on a CAX when I went into Palm Springs. I met Gautier. What a nice guy. Hung out for a little while. I was a 19 year old nobody.
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:46:50 AM PST
by
rey
To: DannyTN
A classic fellow.
Here is an outtake of Gautier as *Hymie the Robot* in the season 2 episode "Anatomy of a Lover."
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:49:51 AM PST
by
ASOC
(Have *you* visited the World of the Chernyi?)
To: chrisinoc
The original Conrad Birdie. I once had lunch with him and others at the Magic Castle in LA. Wild guy!!
To: chrisinoc
I was in college when the show was popular.
It spawned a lot of quotes such as “Would you believe”?
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posted on
01/14/2017 11:54:28 AM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: chrisinoc
One of my favorite character actors.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:00:47 PM PST
by
tanuki
(Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
To: chrisinoc
Hymie, would you answer the door please?
Hello, door ... what was that question again?
Loved that show ... especially Hymie.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:03:14 PM PST
by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: miss marmelstein
He played Robin Hood in “When Things Were Rotten” the short-lived Mel Brooks TV series.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:05:10 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
To: chrisinoc
To: dfwgator
“He played Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten the short-lived Mel Brooks TV series.”
That’s what I was going to say.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:18:02 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: miss marmelstein
I was devastated when it was cancelled.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:20:10 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ifinnegan; dfwgator
"He played Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten the short-lived Mel Brooks TV series. Thats what I was going to say."
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:22:35 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: chrisinoc
RIP.
But I had to start laughing at my first thought.
“Hymietown” - Jesse Jackson
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:25:21 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: BlueLancer
I asked you not to tell me that!
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:25:54 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ASOC
As Hymie he had the classic men's haircut.
I was disappointed later when in When Things Were Rotten he had that gay 70's long hair men's style.
Looks stupid but people were (and are) lemmings.
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:30:20 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: al_c
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posted on
01/14/2017 12:36:36 PM PST
by
I-ambush
(If we make it, we'll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying)
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