I still have a few Photoshops to do on the passing of some real scumbag leftist musicians, so I think Keith Richards has a few years left yet...
Posted on 12/01/2018 9:39:54 PM PST by massmike
Ken Berry, the rubber-legged actor who delighted TV viewers as the blundering Capt. Wilton Parmenter on F Troop and as the accident-prone Vinton Harper on Mama's Family, has died. He was 85.
Berry, an agile song-and-dance man who was encouraged in show business by his U.S. Army sergeant, future Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy, died Saturday, his ex-wife, Jackie Joseph-Lawrence, reported.
The amiable Berry also was known for starring as town councilor Sam Jones on Mayberry R.F.D., the spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show that was created by CBS after Griffith exited the series — then the No. 1 show in the ratings — after its eighth and final season.
Berry came to fame for portraying the greenhorn Captain Parmenter on ABC's F Troop, which aired for only two seasons (65 episodes from September 1965 through April 1967) but lived on in syndication for decades.
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Played a great straight man.
I still have a few Photoshops to do on the passing of some real scumbag leftist musicians, so I think Keith Richards has a few years left yet...
Didn’t know that Nimoy as an Army Sergeant.
I ran into him when I worked at Universal Studios. I mean -— I literally RAN INTO HIM.
I was coming out of the alcove where the copy machine was & he was coming in. I didn’t knock him down, but I did run into him. I couldn’t apologize enough. He just laughed.
The TV tribe must have been an offshoot of the Fuggawi tribe. Glad someone remembers that old joke. Cracked me up when the chief told it on one of the episodes.
Absolutely. We will never again see clean, innocent, genuine humor like this again. Todays leftist zombies would recoil in horror that the entire cast was white, the Native American stereotypes, the gender stereo types...oh wait...Wrangler Jane was the best shot in town...oh, OK, the Guns.....oh, the guns!
That was fun. About every couple or months or so the teacher would give out the order forms for the books that were about 5 bucks each or so. I liked the ones based on recent TV shows or movies and also the Twistaplot ones (The Train of Terror and The Golden Sword of Dragonwalk).
Five bucks apiece! When I was getting them (1960s) they were more like 50 cents, perhaps even less. I liked all kinds of fiction (one I remember was The Guns of Navarone), but can’t recall many specifically. My brothers and sisters also got plenty of books from SBS and they all got mixed together. In those days I read pretty much anything I could get my hands on, including other siblings’ assigned reading.
Tim Conway made me howl with laughter in McHale’s Navy. What a great show. And Joe Flynn who played McHale did a great job too. As someone else has posted....”Those were the days”
Ernest Borgnine was on the show but Conway made me laugh more.
I didn’t see that show but I loved him on Carole Burnett’s show. His son is absolutely a natural, cracks me up every night on the radio. His bits are funny, sure. But just his reactions to things are funny - just the way he observes the world. And his show crew is great as well. You can listen on iHeartRadio.
RIP.
[I attended the Larry Storch School of Acting.
Did you run into Kelly Bundy there?]
I did! I did part of the camera work for “Sheos” which was a landmark film.
All of my scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. :(
Kelly handled the camera for some of the film. The greatest director-handles-the-camera work since Stanley Kubrick did his work inside the B-52 mock up when the missile detonated (and resulting mayhem).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQbfZUs3QM
Spock to Captain Kirk: “You would have made an excellent Nazi”.
“Patterns of Force” if memory serves. Ah good, it did. Just checked.
It must be owned by the same folks who own “Black Acting School”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASZ6K9cPNk
It was the "Citizen Kane" of shoe films.
It truly was. I enjoyed it once again.
Now there's a nice bit of TV Trivia to use at the next Trekkie Con..................
I referred some minority Millenials to watch MASH, as it was one of the most popular TV shows of all time. No interest whatsoever. They called it an old peoples show. I am sure the mostly white cast was a big issue as well.
Their loss.
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