Posted on 01/10/2022 9:51:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Actor and CBS executive Dwayne Hickman has died.
Hickman passed away in Los Angeles on Sunday following a battle with Parkinson’s disease, his family confirmed, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was 87.
The television actor was best known for his starring, titular role in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” a teenage sitcom that aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS. Coincidentally, the date of Hickman’s passing, Jan. 9, is the birthday of his longtime friend and co-star on the show, Bob Denver, who died in 2005 at age 70.
Before he became the “poster child of the baby boomer generation” as high school playboy Dobie Gillis, Hickman previously starred in “The Bob Cummings Show” between 1955 and 1959, his breakout television role in which he played Cummings’ nephew Chuck.
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Rarely do teens make good actors — they are too much consumed with being teens to know how to act like one in a comprehensible manner on cue.
I’m a couple years younger than you - I was in third grade when the show started. And, like you, I thought “College looks great!” LOL.
It’s funny to think he was already 87.
May he Rest In Peace.
But… but… but… did he DIE SUDDENLY? /sarc
That was the best tv show ever. Nothing will ever beat that zany cast of characters and the droll comedy, the innovation of Dobie narrating the show, the interplay of Dobie and his many girlfriends all swooning over him, the poor unrequited Zelda, the great hapless parents. Even the hilarious stage names — whoever would have thought up “Maynard G Krebs”?
Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman)
Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver)
Herbert T. Gillis (Frank Faylen)
Winifred Gillis (Florida Friebus)
Zelda Gilroy (Sheila James Kuehl)
The number of cameo appearances in Dobie Gillis is amazing: Tuesday Weld, Warren Beatty, Ron Howard, Bill Bixby (My Favorite Martian), Marlo Thomas (That Girl), Susan Bay Nimoy (Leonard Nimoy’s wife), Thelonious Monk
R.I.P. One of my favorite shows as a young teenager.
One of my favorite shows as a OLD teenager...............................
Dobie’s father, Herbert T. Gillis, repeated the line, “I was in W-W-II—the big one—first sergeant, with the good conduct medal!”
Didn’t Maynard refer to Gilis as “Little Buddy?”
Like Skipper did Gilligan?...................
He was on Wagon Train just last week !
I don’t think anyone under the age of 70 would know either him or Dobie Gillis or the Bob Cummings Show...
RIP
If we had gaydar back then we could have spotted Zelda for what she is today . . . a ultra-left California gay Democrat.
I’m 67 this week and I remember all of them!...............
Don’t forget “I was a teenage Uncle Bob”
Zelda. Look her up. Very disappointing.
...Harvard Law School where she rose to the top of her class and was elected student council president. [that's impressive]The strong ultra-liberal subtext in that IMDB blurb is disappointing, as well.Sheila made bold moves into the political arena on feminist issues and went on to serve as the first openly gay member of the California State Assembly (6 years) and Senate (8 years). She later focused on community programs and policies as Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College and played host of the West Hollywood cable show "Get Used To It", that dealt with gays and gay issues. She also worked in tandem with Planned Parenthood of California in helping to develop legislation. To this day, the former child actress continues to be a strong and vital force in Los Angeles politics.
Hickman was funny as the horn dog nephew of glamour photographer playboy Bob Cummings.
Think that the whole series or at least a good amount of episodes can be found on yt.
I just assumed that was the guy who played Gilligan
The character Zelda added “propinquity” to my vocabulary. Zelda thought it would make Dobie more amenable to romancing her.
“Propinquity effect. The propinquity effect is the tendency for people to form friendships or romantic relationships with those whom they encounter often, forming a bond between subject and friend.”
LOL...that’s a nice little story. I don’t recall that from the show, but it sure describes Zelda. I always felt so sorry for her — good salt of the earth, always beaten out by the lookers. Zelda was no looker. The story of life!
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