This just in.......Lena Horne is still dead....................
Posted on 05/14/2019 9:33:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
The beloved actor is best known for characters like the Oldest Man and Mr. Tudball
Tim Conway has died at the age of 85.
He passed away at 8:45 a.m. in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, his rep Howard Bragman confirms to PEOPLE.
Prior to his death, he suffered complications from Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) and had no signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Conway is survived by his wife of 35 years, his stepdaughter, his six biological children and two granddaughters. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family would like donations to be made to The Lou Ruvo Brain Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The beloved actor is best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show, winning viewers over with characters like the Oldest Man and Mr. Tudball, whose accent he has said was inspired by his Romanian mother. He was known to ad-lib his sketches — even surprising his scene partners — and won a Golden Globe Award for the series in 1976, along with Emmys in 1973, 1977 and 1978.
At a 2013 event promoting his memoir, What’s So Funny? My Hilarious Life, Burnett, now 86, painted her collaborator as an on-set prankster.
“Tim’s goal in life was to destroy [costar] Harvey Korman,” she told the crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Harvey wet his pants,” Conway bragged.
It’s an anecdote he also recalled in a 2013 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
“Harvey never saw what I was going to do until he was actually doing the sketch,” he said. “As a matter of fact in the dentist sketch you can actually see Harvey wet his pants from laughing.”
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I thought Vicki’s ad lib was, “you gonna tell me when that little @zzhole’s through?” She was a great scene stealer.
Tim fell off the couch and dissolved into helpless giggles and couldn’t even pick himself up off the floor.
Tim Conway will be missed.
I thought Lena Horne died in 2010.
This just in.......Lena Horne is still dead....................
Just watched the dentist sketch again and laughed until the back of my head hurt. It was really funny when he would get tickled over making someone else laugh.
He was a master at being silly funny.
Very sad but not unexpected. I had heard he was in poor health some time ago. Memory eternal.
I remember that!
His ‘dentist’ skit with Harvey Korman was one of the funniest skits ever on TV.
Korman admitted later that he was laughing so hard in the dentist chair that he wet himself.
The original was in March of 1969. I think they repeated the skit a few years later in another rendition of the CB Show. It wasn’t quite as funny as the original, but it seems to be the version on Youtube.
I recall him saying something like he couldn’t understand why he was being harassed by sharks when he was swimming. After all, “I was wearing my lucky ham!”
Eerie. It was just days ago I was wondering if he was still with us. I was watching some stupid game show with my mom and an older Black lady gave him as answer for a famous person with the initials TC that someone would want to have dinner with (the answer was Tom Cruise, my mom said she’d rather eat with Conway).
RIP
Lena Horne died in 2010
My dad met him once and he was a really nice guy, RIP.
That’s a good one.
Conway was one of those rare people everyone liked.That’s quite a legacy in itself, let alone his incomparable ability to make us laugh. RIP
You know you’re getting old when stars you watched as a kid dies. RIP and prayers to his family.
One of the best.
Lot of laughter based on his abilities.
:( :(
I still watch him and Harvey on youtube
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LOL, sorry sometimes I open a page, walk away (usually because of something my kids do) and forget to refresh it when I get back (thus missing all the replies). I would’ve deleted it if the option were available.
Wait til you hear about Arnold Horshack.
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