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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Dobie Gillis trivia:
Does anyone know what The “G” stood for in Maynard G Krebbs?
As Maynard explained,
“Walter”
RIP.
35 year old Steve McQueen played a 16 year-old Max Sand.
Can’t forget my favorite character. Doris Packer played the mother of Chatsworth Osborne Jr. Her hilarious catch phrase was “You nasty boy!” Just so funny the way she delivered the line.
She also played principal of Beaver’s school on Leave It to Beaver. The character name there was Mrs. Rayburn.
“Chatsworth Osborne Jr.” — that name always cracked me up. I forgot about him.
Wasn’t he an Eddie Haskell type?
Very true; Doris Packard was a great character actress. She also played Principal Rayburn on ‘’Leave It to Beaver.’’
Maynard & Gilligan were both played by Bob Denver. Maynard was a Beatnik type character.................
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