Random actors no one remembers but you

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Andrew Rubin. Played bi-racial Alan Willis on "The Jeffersons" in just one episode. Was in one of those stupid "Police Academy" movies. Appeared on shows like "The Odd Couple" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "Lou Grant." Was once Debra Winger's boyfriend. Was a cute guy when young. Died at the relatively early age of 69.

Renny Temple

Paul Provenza

Season Hubley

Cliff Potts

Natasha Bobo

Dixie Dunbar

Richard Farnsworth

Lisa Eilbacher

Woody Strode

Andy Devine

Scott Jacoby aka Bad Ronald.

Leigh McCloskey shows his dick in Cameron's Closet, OP.

That's Leigh "J." McCloskey; get it right!

Christina Crawford

Some of those actors are pretty familiar to film fans. Richard Farnsworth has an Oscar nomination. Not being a know all but more obscure picks needed.

Brenda Sykes

Gloria Hendry

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Felice Orlandi

Angela Bruce.

Clu Gulager was on TCM chatting about "The Killers" with Eddie Muller (the film noir guy) a few days ago. He's 93.

Thomas Nock - so hot in "Alpine Fire" (1985).

Cliff DeYoung

Lisa Eilbacher

Paul Le Mat

Kathleen Quinlan

Richard Jaeckel

Heather Menzies

When I was a kid I would read TV Guide cover to cover each week. I could do this all day.

Twenty posts to reach...

Dack Rambo

whatever happened to lisa eilbacher? she was pretty successful and in demand for a few years and them bam! zilch, nada, nothing?..

Vince Van Patten

Ta Tanisha

Lindsay Wagner.

the once-handsome Esmond Knight

Canadian actor Lothaire Bluteau

I’m pretty sure he’s family.

Jim J Bullock

Debrah Farentino. Started in soaps, then did a ton of primetime TV in the 80s and 90s. I thought she had a beautiful classic look. I found her Instagram, and it appears that she lives on a farm in Connecticut.

Debrah is a cunt.

Dodo Denney

Nana Visitor

Salome Jens

"Richard Farnsworth."

I think Richard Farnsworth is probably remembered by more people than you. He had a long career, was nominated for an Oscar twice. He's not forgotten.

R29 Back when IMDB's message board existed, one very angry Michelle Lee fan (or Michelle herself?) posted many comments like on Debrah's.

Prior to that, I had always assumed that James Farentino was Debrah's father. He was definitely old enough to be.

Dolph Sweet

Quinn Cummings

I've mentioned him before, but Marshall Colt. Played Bobby Slade in Jagged Edge and was on an ill-fated one season TV show called Lottery in the 80s. I wrote to him when Lottery was on c/o ABC and got back an 8x10 glossy.

I feel as though I should know him— but I don't really.

I loved Farnsworth in "The Straight Story" . His confessional in the bar about his time in the war really blew me away.

Shirl Conway

William McNamara and Brian McNamara. No relation.

Vincent Ventresca

Jennifer Salt

Grand L. Bush

R36- I best remember Richard Farnsworth for Anne Of Green Gables 1985ca.

You guys are just making all these names up. Stop it.

Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Lydia Cornell

Ken Wahl

Mitzi Mayfair

Bridget Hanley. I loved her in the 80’s comedies opposite Barbara Eden.

Kaye Ballard

Shirley Hemphill

Daniel Spencer

David Birney

R45- He was GOOD looking in the 1970's. My tastes were set in stone as a gayling in the 1970's. The men in those day were ALL - Slim with natural bodies, NO muscles, tattoos, piercing, rings or shaved pubic hair.

R45 He was Mr. Meredith Baxter (Birney). Reminds me of James Mason.

R24 wrong. I watch the Bionic Woman every day on Cozi.

Wrong r33. Quinn Cummings is a ❤️ fave.

Emmaline Henry

Sada Thompson

Gary Frank

Pat Priest

The adorable Corbin Allred, Jordan Brower, & Mike Damus—best known as the trip of young leads for ABC/TGIF’s very funny but sadly-forgotten 1997 sitcom TEEN ANGEL.

Incredibly, all three are pushing forty now. Today, only Damus is still a working actor, and he’s grievously underemployed considering his level of experience and ability. Allred quit the business long ago, and is now a fully-trained paramedic with almost a decade on the job, though he occasionally takes time out to teach acting to local youths. Not a soul knows what Brower does for a living, only that he doesn’t act anymore. Allred has a wife and a passel of kids (Mormons, pity), while as far as anyone can tell Damus & Brower are still unmarried and childless.

Super handsome Barry Coe.

Lany o Grady

R56- It's LANI not Lany

Well excuse me for not knowing how to spell that well remembered famous actress! Everyone should automatically know it’s Lani and not Lany!

The on.y reason you know about her is because she was that show’s token lesbian character.

Kevin Brophy. Was watching a random bad movie the other day and was reminded of him in the short-lived TV series “Lucan the Wild Boy.”

I googled him and read an interesting factoid about him—a complete stranger left him $500,000 in his will. They had never met. The deceased guy was a loner who lived on a farm; he bequeathed Brophy and another actor his $1 million dollar fortune in his will.

[quote] Pat Priest

Beverley Owen

Hermione Gingold

R58- You're excused. JUST don't do it again.

Mary McCarty

Some of these people are still acting, they’re just not in the spotlight anymore or are in less high profile work.

Morgan Stevens worked for over 20 years as an actor until he was viciously assaulted by the police after a minor traffic accident in 1989. The actor suffered a broken nose, a fractured cheek, a dislocated jaw and nerve damage to the right side of his face as a result of the beatings. His career basically ended as a result of this. He will be 70 this year.

I just saw Pat Priest earlier today on MTM, r53. She played Sue Ann's kid sister.

Tricia Leigh Fisher

Teresa Saldana

My good lord some of you are posting very famous names.

Paul Benedict on "The Jeffersons"

Paul Sand

Susan Tolsky

There was an actress named Beverly Hills in the 1950s.

Magdalena Montezuma

Marjoe Gortner

I always think no one remembers them but me. Then I look them up, and learn they're starring in some highly popular show I've never seen, now in its eighth season.

R73- He played a CREEP in the 1974 movie EARTHQUAKE.

Edna Purviance

Contorto Colona

Li'l Slimy

Luana Lee Mehlberg

Glamora

Austin Pendleton. His first credited screen role was in Otto Preminger's Skidoo! (1968).

R33 Quinn Cummings is or was pretty popular on Twitter. I think she's political, although aren't they all now? I briefly met her once, she came across odd as advertised.

R43 Bridget Hanley is a good one. I remember her from "Here Come the Brides."

Kevin Tighe

I remember Clu Gulager. His son won Project Greenlight, didn't he? And then Clu appeared in the movie. I am surprised to read that he's still alive though.

Ellen Brie

The curly-headed Marilyn Jones was in a lot of teen shows back in the day.

[quote]Austin Pendleton. His first credited screen role was in Otto Preminger's Skidoo! (1968).

He's also in one of my favorites "My Cousin Vinny"

OP, Clu Gulager is still around at 90 or so. He recently did an interview on TCM's Noir Alley

R35, Isham was a baronet who quit acting after inheriting his father's title. He was also a WW2 veteran and GAY. I thought I was the only person who had heard of him!

Horst Caspar

R81 shit, PROJECT GREENLIGHT!

The most memorable entertaining part of that show was drunk Ben Affleck doing impressions. To this day, I still quote his Chris Moore: “that’s what I’m tryna say...nobody listen to me..”

Tim Considine

William Windom

You couldn't read up to r17, r85???

He was handsome when he was younger. Homo? Can't find anything about a wife or gf

R84 Pendleton also starred with Ralph Macchio in, HE’S WAY MORE FAMOUS THAN YOU.

Mare Winningham

ZaSu Pitts

R92 Bruce Cowling? He was beautiful.

Judy Strangis. I know lots of us boomers remember her, but still, no longer a peep.

Renne Jarrett, who starred in a sitcom called "Nancy." She started out as a Manhattan debutante.

Julie Sommars, star of "The Governor and JJ."

These shows were all over my mother's late-60s movie magazines.

Lance Kerwin

Lois Chiles

R94 ok, no. Mare has won Emmys, she’s fantastic and has a great profile, plus she’s considered a minor 80s icon. She’s not even close to obscurity.

She was show-stealing in HATFIELDS & MCCOYS (2013).

R94-,She was REALLY good in that TV movie about a woman who has a brain transplant- it's posted on youtube.

^ I meant my post for R99

Frederick Koehler

I was just reading about Renne Jarrett. She's Rachel Bilson's stepgrandmother.

R103 I'm laughing - I don't know either of those people. This is the perfect thread for me.

Beverly LaSalle

Maxine Markinson

R104 And here I thought I was being pretty hep citing Rachel Bilson - a young star of the 2000s, wasn't she?

"Teresa Saldana."

I'm sure there are people who remember Teresa Saldana, but maybe not for her acting work. She was in "Raging Bull" and "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"; she was in the tv series "The Commish." She did quite a bit of tv work. But I think she's best known for being a high profile stalking victim. She was stalked by a crazy man from Scotland; she was stabbed almost to death. She was stabbed 10 times and spent four months in the hospital. She starred in a tv movie based on that experience. The guy who almost killed her spent almost 14 years in prison for his crime; he was then deported to the United Kingdom to be tried for 1966 robbery and murder. He was found not guilty by "diminished responsibility" and placed in a mental institution where he eventually died of heart failure. The bastard should have been locked up in prison for life for what he did to Saldana. As for Saldana, she went on with her career. She divorced, remarried, and had a child. She died at age 61, of pneumonia.

Every other poster says- How can you say she's forgotten she's a gay icon!- Just because some QUEEN remembers a forgotten actor/actress it doesn't mean ANYONE else remembers them.

Richard Farnsworth? I remember him for the wonderful "The Grey Fox" - just released recently on Kino Lorber.

William Russ

Garrett Maggart

Bruce A. Young

Arlene Golonka

Only lesbians remember Mandana Jones.

She’s actually posh and straight and primarily a stage actress, but her short brush with fame saw her playing a lower-middleclass lesbian on telly. She’s gone grey and basically retired, now.

Judy Carne

Hamilton Camp "uncredited" as per IMDB in Titanic (1953) Lots of credits thereafter.

Paul Sands among other credits he was in The Hot Rock (1972) with Robert Redford and George Segal

[quote]Frederick Koehler

He's been popping up in my mind lately because when they announced the impending reboot of KATE & ALLIE I had just seen him in HBO Max's THE LITTLE THING. And last year Netflix picked up the series KINGDOM and I could never forget him because he was in a pivotal two-parter of series. As a fan of OZ I could never forget him as one of Vern's punk sons.

Brigitte Neilsen

Marjorie Mains

Laurie Handler

R1116- You also didn't forget him because on OZ you got to see his PENIS.

The FAT accountant on Cheers

I love my sex toys!

There was only *one*, r118.

Everyone remembers Austin Pendleton from What's Up, Doc?

but I will give you Olive Deering as forgotten.

R124- Someone mentioned him earlier.

Plus Kathleen Quinlan also got an Oscar nomination for Apollo 13 way back in 1996 so that helps her profile.

Anne Archer

Dan Montgomery

Rita Gam

Doris and Constance Dowling

Anne Archer? Ah, come on! Fatal Attraction?!

R129, I had a crush on Dan Montgomery. Then I forgot about him.

Michael Burns

Brenda Scott

Dennis Olivieri

Zooey Hall

Karen Valentine

Radames Pera

^ Remember him from Little House!

Arlene Martel

Katherine Crawford

Lowell Gilmore

Brendon Boone

Rudy Solari

Don Francks

John Leyton

John Leyton was hot. Homo?

Not to mention that unfortunate quaalude business, r127!

Doug McClure, my childhood crush

Merritt Butrick

David Oliver

R140 My crush as well. I loved the opener of "The Virginian" where they were all bouncing up and down on the horses. Tingle!

[quote]Doug McClure, my childhood crush

I only knew Doug McClure from this late 80s kids show called "Out of This World" (with DL fave Donna Pescow) so when THE SIMPSON's character Troy McClure appeared I thought it weird to base a character on a guy from a random syndicated series. Had no idea about his earlier work.

[quote]R19 Heather Menzies

It’s spelled [italic]Menses.

Bobby DiCicco

Jennifer Edwards

Jamie Smith-Jackson

Anjanette Comer

Brandon Maggart, Paul Regina, and Robert Walden of "Brothers," groundbreaking gay sitcom.

Shannen Doherty

Rebecca Schaefer

Pamelyn Ferdin

Doug McClure.

How DARE you, OP! I love Clu Gulager!

I also swooned over Michael Burns ("Wagon Train") and Tommy Rettig ("Lassie")!

Catherine Burns. She was nominated for an Oscar for "Last Summer" ; that was her biggest success. I would guess most people don't remember her but there was a thread about her on Datalounge a while back. Seems that there were people on Datalounge who found her very interesting.

For anyone OTHER than Dataloungers: Susan Richardson!

It was started a year ago, r153...

R109, Whatever! Greats are now forgotten (ask a young adult about Johnny Carson---or any of his guests, for that matter).

But that's to competing media; lack of interest in the past, particularly pop culture; and no common "must-see" TV in families.

For example, Boomers know about Greta Garbo and Carole Lombard and their era because we watched their old movies with our parents. We followed the bouncing ball with Skitch Henderson and also listened to the Beatles.

But it's not only in popular entertainment. The greatest athletes of the 20th Century are probably forgotten by or unknown to many Americans.

Jodi Thelen

Peggy Ann Garner

r156, I'd wager a ton of boomers couldn't name a Garbo film if you paid them

Yvonne Furneaux

Michael Craig

John Stockwell. He was so hot in Christine and Top Gun.

R159, Off the top of my head, "Ninotchka". Anyway, that isn't the topic is it? Plus, I just said "know about" the actors through old movies.

Me too, R19!

Do you remember a little gem called “Children of Divorce”?!

It’s fantastic!

Ike Eisenmann

Mary Page Keller

Thomas Ian Griffin

Steven Schnetzer

Clark Brandon

Ike Eisenmann

Moosie Drier

Billy Jacoby

David Hollander

Marie Windsor

Danny Nucci

Susan Tyrell.

Pretty much every actor in Hollywood for the last 100 years.

Alejandro Rey

from Argentina. on the Flying Nun with Sally Field. I remember he was shirtless a lot. My whole body tingled at age 7. It was my favorite show.

Grant Goodeve. We elders should remember him. I dreamed of exploring what was under his shirt and pants. I just found this. Happy trails to me.

I think it would lead to a magic forest, a dense forest. I'd knock on wood.

Kristoffer Tabori. I used to have such a crush on him.

Jeremy Garrett. I had a huge crush on him, but he faded away pretty quickly

Joby Baker ..... Teresa Ganzel ..... Steve Shortridge

Fred Berry

William Christopher

Keith Andes

I don't think the name Wallace Ford would ring a bell with just about anybody, but he acted in over 150 films and his career lasted 30 years. He was in movies with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford and James Cagney and Loretta Young and James Stewart. The director John Ford used him in a lot of his movies. He was working right up the end of his life; his last role was as "Ole Pa" in "A Patch of Blue." He was nominated for a Golden Globe for that. But I think if anyone does remember him it's because he was in Todd Browning's "Freaks." There's a wonderful scene in that movie where he teases Schlitzie the Pinhead about getting "her (actually, Schlitzie was a male) " a hat with a "long, beautiful feather" on it. Wallace Ford was really a very good actor. He deserves to be remembered.

Mary Astor

Aileen Quinn.

I've met Leigh; he's amazing; still sexy and comes at you with all this intense friendliness and warmth

You're easily reminded Lucy Ewing was the luckiest bitch ever on prime time TV.

R156, Mitch Miller had the bouncing ball, not Skitch Henderson.

Yvette Mimieux

The queens of 70s made-for-tv movies:

Cristina Raines, Kay Lenz, Stephanie Zimbalist and Belinda Montgomery

Edna May Oliver. I enjoyed her best in her series of crime mystery comedies where she played spinster teacher Hildegarde Withers.

Freddie Bartholomew. At one time one of the most famous and popular child actors, now only seen on Turner Classic Movies.

Larry Breeding

Actually, most everyone who was on The Love Boat from 2-4 episodes.

René Auberjonois

Do people remember Dody Goodman? I don't.

Fritzi Scheff. A famous beauty in her youth and an international star.

Sydney Goldsmith. She was the second banana in both of Stockard Channing’s failed sitcoms. I remember her being on Carson and other talk shows. When I was a kid I thought she was funny. Her last IMDb credit is from 1988.

Fritzi -- the toast of Berlin, Paris, London and New York.

R180 - I know Wallace Ford. Do you know Gene Lockhart?

Mary Kay Adams

R184, Oops! Well, then I watched Mitch Miller!

Only thing I recall Leigh McCloskey from is Dario Argento's "Inferno"

Elisabeth Peters (She Devil)

Alan Marshal. So hot. Sustained a career for decades and usually played leading men but never made it to A list because he kept having nervous breakdowns.

Leigh McCloskey was in multiple fucking classics... just one of the guys, Santa Barbara

Douglas Dick Dick Hogan

Jan Smithers

Pandora Spoxx

Lisa Gerritson

I will always remember Leigh, OP, because my mom wanted my middle name to be Lee, but saw his name spelled “Leigh” in some movie rag while she was waiting for me to shoot out, and used that spelling. She told me that story when he was on Dallas. I’ve always found him sexy.

R60 Peter Barton got the other half of the inheritance

R161 John Stockwell also showed his cute ass in Dangerously Close

Kevin Corcorran -"Moochie" in old Disney movies

[quote]There's a wonderful scene in that movie where he teases Schlitzie the Pinhead about getting "her (actually, Schlitzie was a male) " a hat with a "long, beautiful feather" on it. Wallace Ford was really a very good actor. He deserves to be remembered.

R180 Another Wallace Ford line from "Freaks" to the female lead, "You should have seen me before the operation." No one knows what that's supposed to mean although every Freaks fan has their own explanation!

Jonny Whitaker

Mimsy Farmer

Ly;nda Goodfriend

Susan Tolsky

Burt Mustin

Cheerio Meredith

Klinton Spilsbury

Reva Rose

Peter Lind Hayes

Anthony Eisley

Regis Toomey

Dorothy Michaels

[quote]Leigh McCloskey was in multiple fucking classics... just one of the guys, Santa Barbara

And General Hospital.

Zina Bethune

Nedra Volz, The old lady they would bring on to every 70s sitcom to call someone a jive turkey. The audience would bore with laughter.

**roar with laughter **

Clu Gulager also directed a Palme d’Or nominated short named “A Day with the Boys”, and he had a bit part in Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.

Pearl Bailey

[quote]Nedra Volz, The old lady they would bring on to every 70s sitcom to call someone a jive turkey. The audience would bore with laughter.

I was going to list her yesterday! She was a film no one remembers called "Moving Violations".

Helen Twelvetrees

[quote]René Auberjonois

I saw him when he was a complete unknown on stage at the ACT (San Francisco) in "Sleuth" with G. Wood, fucked if I remember what year.

Harry Townes

Dorothy Provine

Bridget Hanley

r222, I beleve you mean Bridget Ann Elizabeth Hanley Swackhamer.

Caryn Richman

Helen Lawson

Maggie McNamara

R219 Who is G. Wood?

Laura Jill Miller

R148 most people who are Gen X know who Shannen Doherty is. She's been in the news recently because of her breast cancer battle, too.

R149 Rebecca Schaeffer is another tragic story of a stalker killing a starlet.

Madonna

Hayden Rourke

Audrey Christie

Poncie Ponce

Anne Revere, who specialized in Worried Mother roles....She won the Oscar for "National Velvet." I AM ANNE REVERE.

Patrick Vaughn

And, r234, she won a Tony for Toys in the Attic.

Outside of DL: Constance Ford

Ruth Chatterton

Constance Towers

Leon Lontoc

"Mary Astor."

Oh, come on. People remember Mary Astor. She had a long career and she won an Oscar. She was in classic movies like "The Maltese Falcon" And Meet Me In St. Louis." She wrote a well received autobiography. But it's possible all that was overshadowed by a huge scandal she was involved in. She kept a diary and her husband attempted to use it in a custody battle over their daughter. Seems she was carrying on a torrid affair with the married, misanthropic, plug ugly writer George S. Kaufman and gushed about it in her diary. The scandal was so tawdry that it rated an entire chapter in Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon." The diary quotes her as saying that Kaufman was 'hard all the time" and that he "fucked the living daylights out of me." Some Mary Astor apologists insist that the lurid parts of her diary was "forged" or "made up" but I doubt that. She was an idiot when it came to Kaufman; she thought they had something very special going, but for him she was just another fuck buddy. Silly woman.

Zach Galligan, I wanted his 80s office boy ass

" I know Wallace Ford. Do you know Gene Lockhart?"

No, can't say as I do. I was familiar with Wallace Ford because I've seen several movies he was in: "Harvey", "Freaks", "Beast of the City", "A Patch of Blue."

Madge Evans

Oh Anne, R234, I heard you are a crazy Commie.

Nancy Davis.

Denny Miller

Ed Ames

James Gleason

Will Wright

Cynthia Pepper

Margalo Gilmore

Josephine Hull

Richard Greene

Barbara Lawrence, Barbara Ruick, Barbara Pepper

Christopher Jones

Audrey Dalton

R250 everyone who's a real fan of I Love Lucy should know who Barbara Pepper is.

R246 really? "Just say no!" Nancy Davis Reagan is very well known.

Lucille Watson

I've been reading this thread and thinking there must be something wrong with me because I recognize nearly 3/4 of the names mentioned.

Then I realized there's nothing wrong with me, I'm just a typical DL eldergay.

John David Carson who had 22 years of acting credits on IMDB. He died of lymphoma at 57 in 2009. In this episode of TAXI he appears at the 1:30 mark. He played a bisexual man who was interested in both Elaine and Tony.

Robert F Lyons

Susan Lucci

Lawrence Tierney

Sue Ane Langdon, Nancy Kovack, Selena Royle

Sal Viscuso

Wendel Meldrum

Demian Slade

Lola Albright

Dash Riprock

MacDonald Parke

Michael Gray

Jon Provost

Robyn Milan (sp?)

Mari Aldon

Jane Rose

Why has no one mentioned me yet!?!?

R266 Why can't you read?

[quote] everyone who's a real fan of I Love Lucy should know who Barbara Pepper is.

Not to mention "Green Acres" fans.

Gene Lockhart was in a lot of classic movies like His Girl Friday, Algiers, Meet John Doe, Leave Her to Heaven, Carousel, and Going My Way. and is the father of June Lockhart.

Adrian Ross Magenty Rupert Wainwright Tristan Oliver -

Another Country - what a film!

Abraham Bebrubi

Sorry, Abraham Benrubi the huge guy from ER.

clu gulager was so hot in The Killers.....and in ev thing.

robert horton was nother babe from Wagon train.

For those who don't know about Barbara Pepper, she was an old Hollywood friend of Lucy. When Lucy's first choice for Ethel, Bea Benaderet, wasn't available because she was under contract to The Burns and Allen Show, Pepper was her second choice. But CBS had already agreed to cast one old drunk, Frawley, and they weren't about to agree to an even more notorious lush, Pepper. Desi found Vance performing in a local play and convinced Lucy to cast her while Pepper ended up making occasional guest appearances.

John Hoyt

Jay North

Don Grady

June Lockhart

Jane Withers

Harriet E. MacGibbon

Eleanor Audley

Doris Packer

Shirley Mitchell

was at a soiree with don grady in 1969....bit quiet, but hot as heck, classy guy.

John Fiedler

George "Murdered By Rough Trade" Rose

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Edd Byrnes

Roger Smith

Jacqueline Beer

Louis Quinn

Byron Keith

Robert Logan

Berlinda Tolbert

Roz Kelley

Lisa Gerritsen

Butch Patrick

Persis Khambatta

Tamara Dobson

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Gerald Anthony

Alejandro Rey

Marge Redmond

I'll see your Marge Redmond and raise you a Madeleine Sherwood, r284.

"René Auberjonois."

He was part of the Star Trek franchise. Of course people remember him.

ann b davis

dwayne hickman

Darryl Hickman

gabby hayes...

Lynn Kellogg

Joan O'Brien

Ina Balin

Flip Mark

JJ Paul

Zazu Pitts

R281 was just listing some the popular TV series stars of the 60s. Thanks for the memories! I loved 77 Sunset Strip!

R288, R289:

Darryl Hickman was the older brother of Dwayne Hickman, who was famous for playing Dobie Gillis on TV.

Darryl Hickman had a successful career as a child and adolescent film performer and later was a successful TV writer, producer and network executive. He would occasionally resume his acting career on TV and replaced Robert Morse as Finch in the original Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying to excellent reviews.

I didn't have to look up any of that. I must be so old.

Anyone remember Paul Mantee from "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"?

R296 Nope. You might have nailed the topic with that one.

Kiss me, kiss me again, r297.

Jesse Pearson, Dick Gautier, Susan Watson, Carole Demas

Tannis Valelly

Khrystyne Haje(or however the fuck you spell her name)

Avery Brooks

Lassie

Mr Ed.

William Demarest

Susan Watson lives forever.

Shirley Booth

R299 Dick Gautier had a thread dedicated to him on DL - I think it was last year. He was a doll!

There's an existing thread about Successful Actors Who Fly Under the Radar...many of the people listed here belong on that list

Maila Nurmi

I love Susan Watson! ......Here is to Doug Momary and Emily Peden!

I remember Maila

Season Hubley was married to Kurt Russell from 1979 to 1983. They have a son, Boston Oliver Grant Russell.

I remember Clu!

Child/adolescent actor Barry Gordon.

Macdonald Carey

Henry Jones

Barbara Baxley

I'm watching MeTV and an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents just came on co-starring the two of them.

Cantinflas

Denise Miller

i met maila nurmi in Safeway in 1970...she was old but quite jolly and fun. she was the original vampira that whats her name swiped from her....james dean and that group used to hang at her house in the fiftys, she was a stoner.

Pat Finley...... Barbara Sharma ........Susan Luckey

June Harding

Dean Jones

Annette Funicello

Bet these two queens are browsing this thread for material. Maybe they even started it to get fresh ideas.

R322 Thank you! I never saw those two before --- they're great!

Lothaire Bluteau is family. I tricked with him a few times in the eighties. He talked about his career a lot.

In your heated passion, r324, did you scream out "Oh Lothaire, Lothaire!!!" ?

R325 I would have called him "LoLo" in the heat of passion.

R9, Scott Jacoby is remembered on DL as Dorothy's son Michael on Golden Girls.

Sian Barbara Allen

JoAnn Pflug

Norma Varden

I screamed out "Ah mon pettite gambon"

Keith Michell

[quote]Tannis Valelly Khrystyne Haje(or however the fuck you spell her name) Avery Brooks

An ABC viewer, I see.

My boss had a theory that Samuel L. Jackson stole Avery Brooks' career. So similar in style, one had to win out and it was Sam.

Tannis is a casting director. She even turned up in an episode of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT as a casting director. Her father Jim was a writer and producer on AD. He was also in the series DOUBLE TROUBLE with the Sagal Twins.

Julia Marlowe

Micheline Presle

JOY BANG

Patti Deutsch

Lauri Peters ..... Janice Rule ..... Sandra Church

Margaret Leighton

Zina Bethune

Candy Johnson

Joy Harmon

Falconetti

Falconetti was Ok but Ingrid was prettier. A lousy movie though.

That reminds me, r342...

Ingrid Thulin

i remember momma

Ed Westwick.

for some of us, Clu will never be forgotten

michael parks

Michael Burns

Dennis Olivieri

Gordon Pinsent

Kevin Brophy

Michael. Brandon

Jack Bender

Bethel Leslie

Raphael Sbarge

R346 and R347 - wow, Clu and Michael look an awful lot alike!

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Musidora

Raimu

*This* is Mr. Michael Parks, r347...puff puff.

Harry Andrews

Amzie Strickland

Paul Lieber. His main claim to fame was playing a character named Eric Dorsey on "Barney Miller." I found him attractive; he had a face kind of like Richard Gere's; he had unusual hair, a prematurely grey Jewish afro. His did a lot of tv work, was on shows like 'Hill Street Blues", "St. Elsewhere", "The X-files", "Law and Order." He seemed to get a lot of parts that required him to play a sleazebag, which he did very well. I don't think he acts anymore. He had a radio show where he discussed poetry; he was a poet himself. He's a faculty member at a performing arts college now.

Darrell Larson

Lane Bradbury

Laurie Prange

mister greenjeans...

Suzy Gilstrap

John P. Navin Jr.

Wonder if any of these folks have gotten google alerts for this thread.

Ewa Aulin

Don Chastain

Edward Andrews

Stacy Harris

Peter Parros

Jean Byron

Jack Kruschen

Andy Clyde

Carmen Matthews

mister peepers

Ann Doran

Zara Cully

R364 Wally Cox? He's a DL favorite. FB of Marlon Brando.

Pert Kelton

Ethel Owen

Priscilla Pointer

ZEBO THE CLOWN

Jared Martin

Ethel Owen? Never heard of her. Great choice, R369. I enjoy finding choices on this thread that I've never heard of.

Robert Arthur

R373- She played Alice Kramden's mother on the original Honeymooners.

Gene Raymond Lee Ayres

Happy Derman

R376 The same Gene Raymond who was the host of Match Game? I never knew he was an actor...

Jeremy Gelbwaks

No, r378. Gene Raymond was Jeanette MacDonald's slightly too pretty and closeted gay husband who was a B list film star. Gene Rayburn hosted The Match Game.

And Gene Rayburn replaced DVD in Birdie.

Gene Rayburn also starred in the original London production of Birdie with Chita. The OLCR is available.

Rayburn had a long and distinguished career in both TV and radio news before he went into game shows. He was a regular guest host of Today on NBC TV and a leading anchor on the fabled NBC radio news program Monitor. He was a regular guest panelist on both To Tell the Truth and What's My Line, to bring his career around to DL. He was smart and funny and well liked whatever he did.

Thanks everyone for clearing up the Gene Rayburn / Gene Raymond mixup.

Well, r383, he certainly didn't do the weather like the lovely Estelle!

Sue Randall

Warren Oates, how did anyone that fugly ever have a career in movies?

Ask Maria Ouspenskaya, r387.

"Warren Oates, how did anyone that fugly ever have a career in movies?"

I don't see anything "fugly" about Warren Oates. And he's far from forgotten. He has a devoted cult following. He was in movies like "The Wild Bunch", "Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia", "In The Heat of the NIght", "Two Lane Blacktop." He had a documentary made about him. Not forgotten by a long shot.

Simone Simon

I always found Gene Rayburn oddly but very attractive. Not at all conventionally handsome but still, very attractive.

He was certainly no Wink Martindale!

The very handsome (and gay!) Michael Whalen

Neville Brand - sort of 'Warren Oates' fugly and masculine. Mostly appeared in Westerns.

Hugh O'Brien and Gene Barry -- Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. They made me tingle in the 50s.

Another very attractive gay actor - Charles Drake

You think nobody remembers Leigh McCloskey but you?

LOL. You just called dataloungers a bunch of nobodies. Not that you're wrong.

Anne Seymour

Miss Audrey Totter

Marilyn Maxwell

I don't know whether this is right or wrong but I'm using the W/W to vote "Good one!" on actors I remember. Should I be doing the opposite (W/W for actors I don't recognize) or should I just drop this thread?

As luck would have it, every single man in this thread went inside of my mother in Myrtle Beach.

And one of them is my father.

And incidentally-

Which one of you BITCHES is my mother?

Ann Savage

Warren William

George Brent

Lee Bowman

Gilbert Roland

Ricardo Cortez

Lee Tracy

I have a weird crush on Warren William

No crush is 'weird' -- enjoy!

That lump of flesh who played Chip on Kate & Allie

Tina Cole

Ann Starr Roberts

r407: See r102 and R116

Vera Hruba Ralston

Belita

Teensy & Weensy from I Love Lucy

Belita was beloved worldwide!!!

That scared Queen from I Love Lucy who tried to contact Tilly via a seance with Lucy and Ethel.

Speaking of ILL...

Mrs. Gordon MacRae!

That stupid bitch who played Tina in Dark Victory.

I meant Now Votager

Voyager

R416- What about that CHUBBY faced average looking actor who played Bette Davis's love interest in Now Voyager- he's forgotten

Paul Henreid '

r419 None of the stars of "Casablanca" will ever be forgotten.

Speaking of Casablanca...

Scott Jacoby

Scott Brady

Scott Brady will never be forgotten, he’s the goddamn Dancin Kid!

Anne Shirley

Who, by the way, was an absolute doll.

Madge Evans

Wes Stern (briefly did a sitcom with Bobby Sherman)

Una Merkel

I'll take "Lawrence Tierney" for $300, Gene.

I mentioned Lawrence Tierney upthread

Letch Feeley

My wife, the actress Coral Browne.

Nancy Allen.

Toby Wing.

Do a google image search. She was actually quite pretty and almost made it out of B class.

Van Williams

Lee Patterson

Poncie Ponce

Pip the Piper

Carole Landis

Twin singers David and Andy Williams from the 70s. David came out as gay in 1994. They appeared in an episode of THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY as well.

Maria Montez

Anybody who doesn't know who Maria Montez is needs to turn in their gay card.

Yeah, right.

Ann Carter

Verna Felton

"Denise Miller."

I remember her. She was in some episodes of "Barney Miller" and was one of the cast of the short lived Barney Miller spin-off "Fish." She played Archie Bunker's niece on "Archie Bunker's Place." And she was in a ridiculous teen tv move where she played a 13 year girl, who, with makeup, managed to look 16. It is this that helped her become a love interest for a 17 year old musician, played by Rex Smith. He starts pressuring her for sex, and finally she fesses up to being 13. He leaves in anger and she thinks it's over but of course he comes back, tells her he loves her, and agrees that they should "take it slow." He's 17 and wants a 13 year old girlfriend? Blech! But I imagine the teen girls who watched the move swooned over it. As for Denise Miller...well, she got a lot of work as a youth actress but I think her career dried up as she got older. She was very cute; I don't think she ever lost her little girl cuteness.

Margarita Sierra (played Cha-Cha O'Brian on "Surfside Six")

Noreen Corcoran

R445 - and ruined every episode she was in.

Nobody was paying attention to Miss Sierra, r447.

Marie (The Body) McDonald

Art Acord

Arthur Hunnicut

Arthur O’Connell

Frank Nelson

Claudia Lonow

David Bacon, the "Masked Marvel" actor who was murdered

Paul Sand

Deborah Walley

Barrie Longfellow

Michael Anderson

Or rather, r456, Barrie Youngfellow as Jan.

Blanche Yurka

Dolores Costello. Although she had a long and successful career, she's probably best remembered today for incandescent performance as part of an ensemble cast in Orson Welles' studio butchered The Magnificent Ambersons.

She was also married to John Barrymore and is Drew Barrymore's grandmother.

Linda Kaye Henning, Lori Saunders, Pat Woodall

Olan Soulé

Oh, I knew Blanche, r459. She was with us there that night at Reynolda House. But we don't talk about that. She sang opera at The Met and played Gertrude to Barrymore's Hamlet.

the insufferably adorable Ginny Tiu

Pilar Seurat

Gina Gillespie

Colleen Camp

Shirley Mitchell

Cathy Lewis

Maudie Prickett

Priscilla Weems ... Tonya Crowe

Crystal Bernard

Beeson Carroll

Todd Turquand

John Cassisi

Dennis Bowen

Kandice Stroh

Melanie Watson

Rhonda Bates

Yes I am pleased to say I know none of the last 4 posts (my brain is full of useless trivia gained over the decades)

Conky Johnston

Jack Soo

Ron Glass

Cliff Gorman

Paul Sand's real name is Paul Sanchez. That was kind of surprising.

Woody Strode. In his day a famous football player as well as an actor.

R457 Do you mean Michael Anderson Junior?

He was real cutey who appeared in at least ten major movies. And he was one of Jesus' disciples!

Alastair Sim but I hope I'm wrong.

"She was a film no one remembers called "Moving Violations".

Exsqueeze me?

r472, I'm with you but I did recognize Maudie Prickett. She was a well known character actress with dozens if not hundreds of credits across film, Broadway, TV and radio. She usually (not always) played a nosy neighbor or a neighborhood busybody. She was a semi regular on Hazel as one of Hazel's friends. I'm sure you'd recognize her immediately if you saw her.

Robin Bernard

Maudie Prickett was who you hired if Mary Wickes wasn't available.

Max Showalter. He's another one you'll recognize immediately when you see him but no one remembers his name. He began acting under his own name but Fox put him under contract in the early 50s and renamed him Casey Adams. He hated that and when his contract was over, he went back to Max Showalter.

Hundred's of credits in film, TV and stage. He did many stage musicals, including long stints in Hello, Dolly! as Vandergelder. He was the original Ward Cleaver in the pilot of Leave It to Beaver but was replaced by Hugh Beaumont when the series was picked up for broadcast.

He's one of the traveling salesmen The Music Man but uncredited.

Below, Showalter (as Casey Adams) as Ward Cleaver in the Leave It to Beaver pilot.

^ Hundreds, not Hundred's.

Max Showalter used to be in everything! My most vivid memory of Mr Showalter was in Elmer Gantry. He played a deaf man - beautiful evangelist Jean Simmons laid hands on him and ordered “Heal! Heal!” And restored his hearing - it was a really showy scene!

Noreen Corcoran, mentioned above, co-star of TV's Bachelor Father with John Forsyth, was the sister of Kevin Corcoran, aka Disney's Moochie, also mentioned above.

Arthur O’Connell .... Arthur Kennedy ... Dean Jagger

Vince Edwards....compulsive gambler...

Michael Dudikoff

Cathy Lewis was an *A* number one cunt, r468!

Miss Luba Lisa

Max Showalter was family

Meeno Peluce

Trini Alvarado

Mae Murray

Mr. Showalter with Miss Jean Peters in NIAGARA...

I do remember Leigh McCloskey. I think he was one of my crushes growing up - thought he's hot.

Gwynneth Paltow. Won an Oscar wearing pink, was an excellent English-accented Emma and had her head cut off in something else. And now apparently the poor dear is reduced to selling things for blocking up your twat. It’s a shame, as she wasn’t a terrible actress.

WEHT Trini Alvarado? I liked her

R498 Last I saw any mention of her was in this thread....

Judy Canova

Kaz Garas

Burr DeBenning

Jon Cypher

Jason Evers

Miss Judith Evelyn

Geoffrey Toone

Cara Williams

Howard Merritt Kaye

Nita Naldi

Pola Bara

R492, do tell! Dear lord! Even if it was just his films from the 50s, what a career! I want Max Showalter to highjack this thread.

R507 - is she related to Theda Negri?

And he got to add a Barbara Cook flop to his resume!

Miss Viveca Lindfors

Max Showalter was supposedly a very nice man in person, but a terrible actor. He sttod out as so over-the-top in Niagara, a movie with notably hammy performances from Monroe and Cotten.

Ahhh - here is a good one this late in the thread: Ms. Julia Meade!

I have a story for you, r513. I saw Miss Julia Meade in Move Over, Mrs. Markham. While she signed my program, I told her I wished I'd brought a Chinet plate for her to sign. Thankfully looks don't kill as I'm here, at present, regaling DL with tales from my *distant* youth.

Congrats on the success of this thread, OP. Very fun.

I was going to list all of agent Henry Wilsson's "discoveries" from the casting couch, but the list would be too long.

Jennifer Salt

Missy Gold

Boner Bain

Max Showalter is guest starring on Perry Mason right now on MeTV.

Hari Rhodes

Florida Friebus

Yale Summers

Richard Denning

Don Francks

Eric Blore

Anjanette Comer

Allan Jenkins

Showalter got killed off on Perry Mason. He was trying to extort a wealthy woman, turned up dead and Mason is defending her on murder charges.

Checking IMDB, he guest starred in six episodes between 1960 and 1965.

Watch quite a bit of 1970's LE and detective dramas on MeTV (Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones), and Clu Gulager is in rotation as a jobbing actor for roles in such shows. He was in a Cannon episode caught last week and said to myself "hmmmmm"

For a man near or past 90, Clu Gulager keeps himself busy working. His last acting credit was in 2019!

I just saw Colleen Camp in They All Laughed. Boy that was a Bogdanovich stinker. I remember her from Apocalypse now as one of the Playboy bunnies but by the time she was in that Lily Tomlin film Grandma she had gotten fat.

Andrew Duggan

Ina Balin

Haya Harareet

Doro Merande

Louis Calhern

Arnold Stang

Alida Valli

Indus Arthur

Roger Bowen

Gerald Mohr

Frank Lovejoy

Anna Sten

Nina Foch

Ruth Roman

Ruth Roman is in Strangers on a Train, and the camp classic The Baby.

Nancy Parsons

Pat Ast

Andrea Feldman

Richard Davalos

William Reynolds

Nita Talbot

Bernadette Withers

Lee Aaker

Mary La Roche

Jane Dulo

Naomi Stevens

Lilia Skala

Katina Paxinou

Alice Backes

Vivi Janiss

Paul Wallace

Harry Hickox

Sara Seegar

Parker Fennelly

Betty Lou Gerson

John Gallaudet

Ernest Truex

Hampton Fancher

Royal Dano

Ruth Roman also survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

R526 - I love Nita Talbot!

r523, I believe you mean Alida (sometimes just Valli) Valli.

Fess Parker

Nick Adams

Leigh McCloskey was gorgeous, but it seems he wasn't in many high-profile shows or movies, so that's probably why he's not very well remembered. I didn't know until I just looked him up that he was clasically trained at Juilliard!

I would say that both Andy Devine and Woody Strode are well remembered. Woody had quite an amazing life and career, but it would have been even more amazing if there were more opportunities for actors of color when he was in his prime.

R532- His acting was NEVER anything special which make me come to the conclusion that Julliard ( at least in the past) accepted people into their program if they had GOOD ALL AMERICAN looks rather than any GREAT talent.

Eddie Hodges

R533, or maybe he was actually better at classical acting but was cast in TV movies, soaps, etc. for his looks.

Barbara Colby.

Pat Crowley

E.J. Peaker

Paula Raymond

Kim Milford

Penelope Milford

Milford Plaza

Sabrina!

Biff McGuire

^ And McGuire's wife, Jeannie Carson. I saw them in a bus and truck tour of Camelot. They also starred in the first Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow, which led to the first stereo recording of the score.

You are most definitely wrong R478. Thankfully. He also had a sideline!

Catinflas

Cantinflas

Bonita Granville

Alfred Hitchcock doppelganger Jesslyn Fax

Mylene Demongeot

Taina Elg

I remember Bonita Granville. A child I would like to slap the shit out of.

[quote]Paul Sand's real name is Paul Sanchez. That was kind of surprising.

So THAT'S why [italic]Gimme A Break![/italic] cast him as a white guy pretending to be Mexican to own a Mexican restaurant.

The mama pajama rolled out of bed And she ran to the police station When the papa found out he began to shout And he started the investigation It's against the law It was against the law What the mama saw It was against the law The mama looked down and spit on the ground Every time my name gets mentioned The papa said, "oy, if I get that boy I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention" Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona Seein' me and Julio Down by the schoolyard Seein' me and Julio Down by the schoolyard Whoa, in a couple days they come and take me away But the press let the story leak And when the radical priest Come to get me released We was all on the cover of Newsweek And I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona Seein' me and Julio Down by the schoolyard Seein' me and Julio Down by the schoolyard Seein' me and Julio Down by the schoolyard

Judi Strangis

David Haskell

Glynis Johns

Frank Aletter

Senta Berger

Coleen Gray

Cecil Kellaway

Albert Salmi

Cathleen Nesbitt

Debra Paget

Pedro Armendariz

Marj Dusay

Broderick Crawford

Johnny Crawford

Joan Caulfield

Valli and Ruth Roman are, and remain known, for their classic roles in "The Third Man" and "Strangers on a Train" respectively

Dick Kallman, sitcom "Hank" star, broadway wannabe, and Delores Gray's BFF; murdered in home robbery

Broderick Crawford??? Really??? do people live under a rock?

any actor who starred in classic films that are constantly on TCM or in revival (All The King's Men, e.g.) are remembered by millions of fans.

I remember Valli from Miracle of the Bells, r562. Watching it as a kid I thought she seemed to be the poor man's Ingrid Bergman.

R564, I think you're overestimating the popularity of some of these people

Warren Oates, how did anyone that fugly ever have a career in movies?

r387 , Warren Oates was a terrific actor, that's why he had a career in movies. He often played villains, tough guys, and turned in great performances even in guest roles on tv series. He was quite good looking when he was young, but he really showed his stuff as he grew older. He was memorable in many movies, including "Stripes" and "The Wild Bunch."

Nope R566

out of 330m americans, there must be a few million that are not ignorant dopes

The movie [All the King's Men]won three Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, the award for Best Actor, which went to Broderick Crawford, and the award for Best Supporting Actress, won by Mercedes McCambridge.

In 2001, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[10][11] The Academy Film Archive preserved All the King's Men in 2000.[12] To date, it is the last Best Picture winner to be based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Miss Luana Anders

R568, I know tons of highly educated people who don't follow pop culture at all. They can't even name most of the actors who are popular today, let alone ones who were famous 60 years ago

Kristina Holland

Ronnie Shell ....... Parley Baer ......Skip Young

MICHAEL BECK

Lynette Winter

Who was that bitch actress next to him, r573?

Skip Homeier

I saw Dick Kallman in the First National Tour of the original How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with an unknown Dyan Cannon as Rosemary. He and the show were fabulous.

MeTV is running Highway Patrol, Broderick Crawford's syndicated cop show, every morning at 5:00 am. What a curious time capsule.

Skip Homeier was the poor man's Keith Andes -- another name that belongs on this list.

Jack LaRue - so handsome and swarthy!

Virginia Gregg

Lash Larue

Crash Corrigan

One good thing about QUINN-MARTIN PRODUCTIONS is, they always showed and announced the guest stars names so you got to know them real fast.

Someone already mentioned Burr DeBenning so I say:

Don Stroud

who, not only is he still alive ( I thought he had peaked as Murph the Surf), he is still working and has a huge credit list.

Cass Daley

Don Stroud modeled very early for Playgirl but I don't think he went full frontal.

^ I was wrong, Stroud did go full frontal. Give me a break, it was 40 years ago.

Harry Ellerbe

Me

Nehemia Persoff

Carlotta Romero

r589 NehemiaH, and he's still alive at 101 years old.

Gail Strickland

Forbesy Russell

Liberty (Louise) Williams

Laurette Spang

Karen Obediear

Rachel Longaker

Louanne

Michael Link

Christian and Shelly Juttner

Anton Diffring.

Martin Kosleck.

Helmut Dantine.

Parkyakarkus

r595 He was the father of Albert Brooks and "Super Dave" Osborne.

Ari Sorrentino,

failed actor/dancer? gay-for-pay?

Cora Sue Collins.

Sybil Jason.

Edith Fellows.

R596 - I admit I did not know that!

Bajour!