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Roger Perry, Actor on 'Star Trek,' 'The Munsters' and 'The Facts of Life,' Dies at 85
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | July 13, 2018 | Mike Barnes

Posted on 07/13/2018 3:27:42 PM PDT by EveningStar

Discovered by Lucille Ball, he also appeared in 'The Thing With Two Heads' and was married to actresses Jo Anne Worley and Joyce Bulifant.

Roger Perry, the veteran character actor who guest-starred on a memorable episode of the original Star Trek and portrayed Eastland headmaster Charles Parker on The Facts of Life, has died. He was 85.

Perry died Thursday night at his home in Indian Wells, California, after a battle with prostate cancer, his daughter, Dana Perry McNerney, told The Hollywood Reporter.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dcfontana; hollywood; obituary; rogerperry; startrek
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To: EveningStar

I didn’t recognize the name, but as soon as I saw his face I recognized him from so many TV shows. Good actor. RIP.


21 posted on 07/13/2018 3:46:35 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: EveningStar
p01c

Cmon, it's 1967 and you act like you've never seen a miniskirt.

22 posted on 07/13/2018 3:57:27 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: colorado tanker

I had an idea a long time ago for a coffee table book called “Characters” about great character actors. Each two pages would be pics from movies and TV roles on one side, and a bio on the other.


23 posted on 07/13/2018 3:59:22 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I remember in, I think 1964, when one of the prettiest girls in school showed up wearing a mini skirt. It really was short.

The principal immediately sent her home.


24 posted on 07/13/2018 4:01:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: COBOL2Java
Pat Sajak???


25 posted on 07/13/2018 4:05:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: EveningStar

Aww.. what a shame. I remember him well.


26 posted on 07/13/2018 4:06:07 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Hugin

Great idea!


27 posted on 07/13/2018 4:06:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

>> She also wrote my favorite Star trek episode of all time “This side of paradise” which was a huge dig at the hippy drug movement at the time, and even addiction how the real cost is wasted time. Brilliant episode.

I get the impression that was one of the things Brian Wilson was warning about on Pet Sounds in Hang Onto Your Ego/I Know There’s An Answer

I know so many people who think they can do it alone
They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zone
But what can you tell them
What can you say that won’t make them defensive
Hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know that you’re gonna lose the fight.
They come on like they’re peaceful
But inside they’re so uptight
They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night
But how can I say it
How can I come on when I know I’m guilty
Hang on to your ego
Hang on because I know that you’re gonna lose the fight
And how can I say it
How can I come on when I know I’m guilty
Hang on to your ego
Hang on
Hang on but I know that you’re gonna lose the fight


I don’t see the uptight people being the ones taking LSD, I see it as a reflective look at uptight people who take LSD to seek THE answers to life only to trip all day and waste their thoughts at night (any illusion of enlightenment or discovery is lost and wasted).

Drug guides of the time advised thrill seekers to surrender their egos and be born anew by the LSD experience but Brian is saying hang onto your ego and that he’s guilty of the same errors, losing your ego can be a crushing experience. It took Brian a long time to come back...


28 posted on 07/13/2018 4:16:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: OttawaFreeper

No clue .


29 posted on 07/13/2018 4:18:38 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: OttawaFreeper

One over my faves, too!


30 posted on 07/13/2018 4:20:54 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
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To: W.

One of my faves, stupid autocorrect errors...


31 posted on 07/13/2018 4:22:51 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
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To: katykelly
Probably more familiar in this pic, Bonnie Franklin of "One Day at a Time" fame.
32 posted on 07/13/2018 4:26:40 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Bonnie Franklin from “One Day At A Time”?


33 posted on 07/13/2018 4:28:58 PM PDT by princeofdarkness (Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
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To: SeaDragon

Ping


34 posted on 07/13/2018 4:29:43 PM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: yarddog
Maybe that girl was following the wisdom of this ad, lol.
35 posted on 07/13/2018 4:31:34 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: princeofdarkness

Yes, indeed.


36 posted on 07/13/2018 4:32:21 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: OttawaFreeper

I kept looking at the pictures she looked familiar but I knew the hair was wrong. Kept thinking Debbie Reynold but she was already a star by then. It was a strawberry blond though wasn’t it? I just remember this actress from her sitcom with a young Valerie Bertonelli. Right or wrong?


37 posted on 07/13/2018 4:43:20 PM PDT by heylady
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To: OttawaFreeper

Well she did accomplish one thing in the short time she was at school that day. She was the topic of conversation for weeks.

Probably what she wanted.


38 posted on 07/13/2018 4:47:53 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: OttawaFreeper

Ken ‘Eddie Haskell’ Osmond is in that same episode!


39 posted on 07/13/2018 4:49:20 PM PDT by jjotto (Nex eek, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: heylady
Correct, it is indeed Bonnie Franklin who starred along with Valerie Bertinelli. Here's another future star of the same show (One Day at a Time), Pat Harrington, Jr. guesting on a separate episode of "The Munsters":
40 posted on 07/13/2018 4:50:58 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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