Actor Tony Randall Passes Away

MSNBC | May 18, 2004

[Howlin]

Per MSNBC, Tony Randall has passed away.

Details to follow.

[alancarp]

...and Fox News, per my wife, He was 83.

[nuconvert]

Ohhh.....

[Central Scrutiniser]

Major bummer, funny guy, lots of class.

[AmishDude]

Very sad.

BTW, he had served in the precursor to the NSA during WWII. As a mathematician, I think that's pretty cool.

[Howlin]

FYI.

Dies at 84 in NYC.

[Old Sarge]

Aw, Geez! PING.

[arbee4bush]

RIP Mr Peepers

[carton253]

That is so sad. Rest in peace - Felix Unger. You made me laugh...

[skeeter]

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar...

[BluH2o]

Hollywood's old guard is passing on ... RIP Tony.

[stevio]

R.I.P.

[Mo1]

Sad news ..

Sending prayers for him and his family

[Rum Tum Tugger]

RIP Mr Peepers

Actually, it was Wally Cox who played Mr. Peepers, but Randall was on that show.

[Mr. Lucky]

Some years ago, Mr. Randall had been scheduled to serve as the Grand Marshall of a festival parade in our local county seat. When Mr. Randall discovered that a local high school ROTC unit would also be marching in the parade and that they would be carrying 1903 Springfield rifles, he gave the parade organizers an ultimatum: either the rifles are not in the parade or he was not in the parade. The rifles were in the parade.

I never thought much of the guy afterwards.

[wtc911]

Nee Leonard Rosenberg of the Tulsa Rosenbergs. A good, long, productive, scandal-free life. We should all do as well.

[Howlin]

From Fox News on April 20th:

Beloved actor, humanitarian and New York icon Tony Randall has had a rough winter. He'd already been in the hospital for eight weeks when he celebrated his 83rd birthday on February 26. He's still there now.

Randall went into the hospital on December 21, 2003 for a triple bypass. The operation was successful, but it left Randall with a severe case of pneumonia.

The pneumonia spread, became more difficult to treat, and culminated in affecting his eating. Since then he's been on IV fluids, working with a physical therapist to get his strength back and just now starting to eat solid foods again.

[PISANO]

Both Felix's are gone, two of the 3 Oscars are gone, I believe the only one left from the Broadway, Movie and TV Series is Jack Klugman.

[MeekOneGOP]

Actor Tony Randall Passes Away

Aw. Rest in peace, Tony Randall .....

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[NautiNurse]

Tony Randall

TONY RANDALL. Born Leonard Rosenbergin Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., 26 February 1920. Educated at Northwestern University, Chicago; Columbia University, New York; the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City, 1938-40; and the Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Married 1) Florence Gibbs (died, 1992); 2) Heather Harlan, 1995; one child. Served as private and first lieutenant in U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1942-46. Announcer and actor in radio soap operas; New York debut as stage actor, A Circle of Chalk, 1941; various theater and radio work, 1947-52; television actor, from 1952; continues to star in film, on stage, and on television. Member: Actors' Equity Association; Screen Actors Guild; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Association of the Metropolitan Opera Company; founder and artistic director of the National Actors' Theatre in New York City. Recipient: Emmy Award, 1975. Address: c/o National Actors' Theatre, 1560 Broadway, Suite 409, New York, New York 10036, U.S.A.

TELEVISION SERIES

1949-52 One Man's Family
1952-55 Mr. Peepers
1970-75 The Odd Couple
1976-78 The Tony Randall Show
1981-83 Love, Sidney

MADE-FOR-TELEVISION MOVIES

1978 Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1981 Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend
1984 Off Sides
1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1986 Sunday Drive
1988 Save the Dog
1989 The Man in the Brown Suit
1993 The Odd Couple: Together Again

TELEVISION SPECIALS (selection)

1956 Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (host)
1960 Four For Tonight (co-star)
1960 So Help Me Aphrodite (Ernest)
1962 Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer Brewster
1967 The Wide Open Door (Inspector Berry/Geoffrey         Judge)
1969 The Littlest Angel (Democritus)
1977 They Said it With Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime         (co-host)
1981 Tony Randall's All-Star Circus (host)
1985 Curtain's Up (host)
1987 Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus (host)

FILMS

Oh Men, Oh Women, 1957, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, 1957, The Mating Game, 1959, Pillow Talk, 1959, Let's Make Love, 1960, Lover Come Back, 1962, Send Me No Flowers, 1964, The Brass Bottle, 1964, Fluffy, 1965, Bang, Bang, You're Dead, 1966, Hello Down There, 1969, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex..., 1972; Huckleberry Finn, 1974, Scavenger Hunt, 1979, Foolin' Around, 1980, The King of Comedy, 1983, My Little Pony, 1986, That's Adequate, 1989, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (voice), 1990, Fatal Instinct, 1993.

STAGE (selection)

Circle of Chalk, 1941, Candida, 1941, The Corn Is Green, 1942, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1947, Anthony and Cleopatra, 1948, Caesar and Cleopatra, 1950, Oh Men, Oh Women, 1954, Inherit the Wind, 1955-56, Oh Captain, 1958, UTBU, 1966, Two Into One, 1988, M. Butterfly, 1989, A Little Hotel on the Side, 1992, Three Men on a Horse, 1993, The Government Inspector, 1994, The Odd Couple, 1994.

RADIO

I Love a Mystery; Portia Faces Life; When a Girl Marries; Life's True Story

PUBLICATION

Which Reminds Me, with Michael Mindlin. New York: Delacorte Press, 1989.