Comedian Larry Storch, star of “F Troop,” dead at 99

The Laugh Button ^ | 7/8/22 | Andrew Buss

[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.

[Vaduz]

Bob Hope and George Burns nod.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Already 3.
Nazareth lead guitarist died................

[PJ-Comix]

F-Troop was great

F-Troop was featured in the Coen Bros "A Serious Man." The main character's son had a panic attack when he had trouble receiving F-Troop on his TV.

[Delta 21]

Good ‘ol F-Troop.

[Steely Tom]

Wow had no idea (as a child) that he was older than my father.

[pghoilman]

I still remember the theme song:

“Where Indian fights are colorful sights and nobody takes a lickin’! Where paleface and redskin both turn chicken!”

[marktwain]

12 dollars a week was good money for a young man in 1923.

Unskilled labor was a dollar a day.

[fhayek]

It was reported that James Caan was a good friend of Don Adams as well. Weird.

[dfwgator]

Between him and Betty White, both just couldn’t quite get there.

[shotgun]

Didn’t see that one

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That’s 2. Who will be next? Celebrity deaths come in 3’s

The actor playing president?

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Stage left...

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Not bad? That sounds almost ideal.

What made it a good run wasn't the years, but how well he spent his dash.

1921 - 2022.
That ↑ dash.

He spent his bringing joy and enjoyment to millions. That's 99 years of well earned and well spent health!

[Mopp4]

Corporal Agarn - “any palomino is a palomineo”

[blueunicorn6]

A funny, funny man.

RIP

[Conservative4Life]

Even though I remember F troop as a kid, I loved him on Married With Children. Self deprecating humorist, funny guy.

[OneVike]

“F Troop” lasted 65 episodes, from September 14, 1965, to April 6, 1967

I remember the show well, because watched every episode I could. I turned 9 a few days after it’s first episode, and I loved all the characters.

Gosh, television was in its prime as I was growing up in the “60”s. As with everything, liberals destroyed all that was good about it.

Hell, the shows that never made it past a few weeks were better than 99% of the crap on television today.

[OneVike]

Between him and Betty White, both just couldn’t quite get there.

Betty White spent more time screwing everyone than she did acting. The biggest slut in Hollywood. Long before the public heard about the casting couch she was setting the standard.

She slept her way in almost every roll she ever had. Wasn't until she was too old for a guy to want her that she started getting rolls based upon her own acting skills.

Some of the stories she shared through the last 20 years about her sexual appetite, is enough to make a prostitute blush.

[dfwgator]

Yep, “The Rural Purge” did incalculable damage to our society.