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Posted on 03/17/2019 9:09:30 AM PDT by EveningStar
Los Angeles actor, writer and television host Tom Hatten, whose long and diverse career included hosting "Family Film Festival" on KTLA, died Saturday at age 92, according to longtime friend and former KTLA producer Joe Quasarano.
Hatten was a fixture on Los Angeles television since the 1950s as an announcer, actor, singer, producer, writer and television host...
He delighted children with his "Popeye and His Friends" show from 1976 to 1988, and hosted KTLA's "The Family Film Festival" from 1978 to 1992...
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I used to watch him as a kid. But then I date myself. RIP, Tom.
I was on his show The Pier 5 Club in December of 1962. Still have the stuff they gave the kids on the show and my Pier 5 Club hat and membership card!
Especially if you watched him when he was a kid!
How cool is that !!!
I have the postcard shown in the story too!
He grew up with my father-in-law and used to go to my wife’s house for dinner when she was a kid. My wife said neighbor kids would wait outside their house for him to draw pictures.
LOL! He was young at heart. I was the kid enjoying Popeye cartoons.
I remember his show and his cartoon drawings.
RIP. Veteran.
We watched him a lot. RIP.
I still draw “squiggles” for the grandkids. Learned that game from Tom. I also have an Olive Oyl drawing he gave me at the San Berdoo Orange Show. Rest In Peace, Tom.
Before streaming, before TCM, before AMC, before VCRs and film rentals, and before internet access to all of the knowledge and trivia in the world, every town’s classic movie fans relied on local hosts like Tom Hatten in Los Angeles (or Dave Smith’s ‘When Movies Were Movies’ in Indianapolis) for their weekly dose of knowledge of the great films that came before us. Tom Hatten introduced us to Hope and Crosby’s Road pictures, Rathbone’s Sherlock, the inside scoop on Bogart and Bacall, and endless anecdotes from Hollywood lore like WC Fields filling in his fish pond after Anthony Quinn’s child fell in and drowned. Before we all became self-proclaimed experts by looking at Wikipedia, Tom Hatten and so many more movie hosts were our collective Hollywood knowledge base.
Requiescat in pace, old friend.
They are all gone. Tom Hatten, Engineer Bill. Sheriff John, Bozo the Clown. Sad.
I was on a local TV kids’ show, when I was a kid. Wasn’t that fun? I think they gave me $5 or something.
And Skipper Frank.
Enjoyed his hosting movies.
RIP
-PJ
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