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'Whirlybirds' Star Craig Hill Dies at 88
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| April 21, 2014
| Mike Barnes
Posted on 04/22/2014 9:50:19 AM PDT by EveningStar
Craig Hill, who played P.T. Moore, the co-owner of a helicopter chartering company, in the 1950s syndicated TV adventure series Whirlybirds, died Monday, the Spanish newspaper Ara reported. He was 88.
Hill, who also appeared as the prison-bound first-time offender at the beginning of the Kirk Douglas cop classic Detective Story (1951), died in Barcelona, family members told the newspaper. He had lived in Spain for decades.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: craighill; obituary; whirlybirds
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To: EveningStar
Bet his Spanish was good.
RIP Craig Hill, one of the heroes of my early life.
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posted on
04/22/2014 9:55:38 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: EveningStar
Wow! Watched it all the time. Had no idea he was still alive.
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posted on
04/22/2014 9:56:17 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I AM A FREE MAN!)
To: EveningStar
I barely remember that show.IIRC my older brother used to watch it.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:00:53 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
To: EveningStar
To this day, when I see a Blackhawk or a Huey overhead, I think: “There’s a Whirlybird.”
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:02:41 AM PDT
by
W.Lee
(After the first one, the rest are free.)
To: onedoug
And his partner, who was also “Festus” from Gunsmoke.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:02:46 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There's the Beef!)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:02:52 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: EveningStar
Should have been drafted for WWII but I can’t find any mentioned of military service.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:08:21 AM PDT
by
Portcall24
(aer)
To: EveningStar
OMG, I remember that show....one of the very first I can recall. I barely had permission to open the shutters on the Stromberg-Carlson on my own.
I’ll have to watch an episode or two, thank you!
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:09:08 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: G Larry
You’re thinking of Dennis Weaver. Hill’s co-chopper pilot was Kenneth Tobey.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:10:45 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: G Larry
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:13:10 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: EveningStar
According to the article, Robert Altman (MASH - the movie) directed 19 episodes of Whirlybirds.
It was his first full time job in Hollywood.
I wonder if he had all his characters in Whirlybirds talking at the same time like he did in MASH and McCabe and Mrs. Miller?
Whirlybirds came on right before dinner at my house, so I remember my Mom cooking and our “TV room” full of neighborhood kids whenever I think about that show.
To: EveningStar
Awwww. RIP
I had totally forgotten about that show. Used to LOVE it.
To: EveningStar
Loved the show. I must have drawn hundreds of helicopters in class when I should have been studying.
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04/22/2014 10:41:12 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
I loved this show as a kid. Chuck and P.T. are both gone now, RIP.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:43:51 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: EveningStar
That show taught me that a collective had nothing to do with Communists or (later) hippies.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:48:14 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(F the government)
To: llevrok
That show taught me that a collective had nothing to do with Communists or (later) hippies. It's the one collective that actually produces (lift) when applied.
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04/22/2014 10:52:11 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: CrazyIvan
I found it cool (not real), as a kid, they could hover and drop a rope and climb down with no pilot.
To: G Larry
"who was also Festus from Gunsmoke"....
I was thinking the same thing but it was another show called 'Ripcord' --[Operating their skydiving service company "Ripcord", Jim Buckley and Ted McKeever are able to get to places that others can't and get there much faster. This leads them on many exciting ..]
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04/22/2014 11:20:15 AM PDT
by
virgil283
('No king .... but King Jesus')
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