That's Larry on the left as the Groovy Guru.
Barbara Feldon in the middle, 10 years younger, is still around.
Posted on 07/08/2022 8:17:16 AM PDT by Borges
Veteran comedian Larry Storch, best remembered for starring on 1960’s F Troop, has passed away at 99. The death was officially announced on his Facebook page this morning.
Storch was born in 1923 in New York. As a teenager, he started doing stand-up earning $12 a week. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he was discovered at Ciro’s (now The Comedy Store) in Los Angeles by none other than Lucille Ball. A big staple of his act was his impressions that included Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Frank Morgan, and Basil Rathbone.
As an actor, Storch is best remember for his role in F Troop, where he played Corporal Randolph Agarn. He also starred on the 1975 children’s show The Ghostbusters, which pre-dates the Ivan Reitman movie by almost a decade.
If you had a television show in the 1960’s or 1970’s, there’s a good chance Storch made an appearance on it. Other credits include Gilligan’s Island, The Love Boat, Car 54, Where Are You?, Get Smart, Married with Children, That Girl, I Dream of Jeanie, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Gomer Pyle, Fantasy Island, and even as the voice of The Joker in Batman, among countless others.
Storch had a career that spanned from the 1940’s all the way until his last public appearance last July. Check out some highlights from his long career below.
His appearances as General Gomez on Gomer Pyle had me rolling in the floor!
“These ARE my fatigues!”
And thanks for your service.
RIP....
Passaic NJ honored him in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkn5DPRGwx8&ab_channel=NorthJersey
One of his best bits.
RIP Corporal Agarn.
Doing spot on imitations of Claude Rains, Frank Morgan, and Basil Rathbone really has no market. You spend way too much time explaining who they are/were. I’m old enough to recall those actors, and old enough to sometimes catch myself making references to too young an audience to understand.
Really appreciated Storch and was rooting for him to hit 100. RIP.
That's Larry on the left as the Groovy Guru.
Barbara Feldon in the middle, 10 years younger, is still around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihcd1XInF24&ab_channel=TeeVeesGreatest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihj5rNhyitA&ab_channel=JohnLindsay
Sorry, on the right.
1)The original TV series
2)The BATF
3)The FBI
For one dolla, only one indian ride up, cry one war woop, and ride away.
For five dolla, two indians ride up, shoot arrow at wagon, then ride off.
For ten dolla, two indian bite dust!
Gunther and Francis tried to get Charlie a job at the barber shop but Charlie drank the blue water they soak combs in. Then they got him a job at the morticians but Charlie drank the embalming fluid.
Funny guy.
Storch and Don Adams (Get Smart) were high school classmates in the Bronx. Storch did not graduate from high school due to the Great Depression. Storch was in the Navy in World War II and he was shipmates with Tony Curtis on the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Storch
RIP
“Sorry, on the right.”
...and I thought he was just doing a great impression of Don Adams.
RIP Larry.
Wrangler Jane: “...right after dinner Randolph’s taking me to pick wildflowers”
Captain Parmenter: “you’re going to pick wildflowers...at night?”
Agarn: “yes...that’s what makes it...so wild”
They were originally meant to be called the Fukawi tribe.
Not acceptable at that time.
Catch a movie called “Who Was That Lady?” with Dean Martin and Tony Curtis. Storch plays a Russian spy and is hysterical.
RIP.
Henry Kissinger just turned 99 a couple months ago.
The actress Janis Paige is also 99. I know, she’s not that well known at this point.
I was hoping Larry Storch would have made it to 100.
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