Elder Gays Tell Me About Robert Reed

That's the best pic I've ever seen of him, OP.

He looks really handsome in that shot

Life in the closet caused him a lot of problems.

R2, He looks he fathered Bradley Cooper, that's what he looks like. I remember when going through my gay discovery phase I was watching a Bunch episode and thinking dayum, Mike Brady is kinda hot. Then I learned he was gay and stayed in my classic Hollywood radar.

How will we ever know if he resented the Brady stuff, OP?

[quote] In fact, he often embraced his role and spoke about this with the media.

Oh yeah, that's ^ in the article you linked, but didn't read. Ya lazy scrote.

I remember his episode of Biography. It was pretty sad. He was very closeted and got married young and had a kid. He lost custody of his daughter because of his sexuality.

He sucked dick.

R5, I think I need to be punished and fucked senseless. But real talk, other cast members particularly the mom have said this over the years. He warmed up to the shows legacy over the years but resented when filming while it was actually on, not syndication.

He loved the actors on the show.

He hated the show.

He was shirtless in the Hawaii episodes.

Years ago a DL claimed to have hooked up with him back in the day

I'm not convinced he was gay. Maybe bi but even that doesn't really line up with his life.

Borrrring.

He was straight! He got AIDS from a blood transfusion!

R12

That pix is a cutie pie. I’d do him. And come back for seconds.

Although I hate when actors have a great gig going and complain and criticize it. Easy money.

I think we all know how this ends. Editor!

Yeah, he looked great but then he permed his hair and that killed that look.

I read one of the Brady kids memoirs—Marcia’s, I think. She said all the kids adored him and he would take them all on vacations with him. He came across as a very sweet, warm guy. But he really hated the show—fought with the writers constantly. But sounded like very professional fights about the writing making sense in terms of characters—not diva fits..

R12 is trolling. There is always somebody who does that on these threads to go against established truths. He was gay and closeted, his colleagues and his daughter all acknowledge.

My Hero !!!!

Who knew that he was ever handsome? Well done, OP

I knew.

R21, Oh wow. Interesting. I wonder if he won an Emmy for that.

He was a huge bitch.

Fought with the writers on the show like he was debating Shakespeare.

He was a ridiculous person.

It never dawned on me as a kid that he was a dick licker until I saw that episode of "Medical Center".

Then I remember thinking he must be gay, because no straight actor would take such a role.

R25, hi there. Were you a set grip, 2nd assistant producer? Your venom seems quite personal.

OMG. Was that a PERM? It was awful and funny.

He was in a "Medical Center" episode where he played a man transitioning into a woman. At the end he was in full drag, makeup, wearing a dress. He didn't look like a woman he looked like a man in drag. But maybe that's the best trannies could hope for back then.

He did a tv movie where he played a warden who raped girls at the prison.

He did another tv movie where he played an obscene phone caller.

I guess he was trying to get away from being the good guy Dad image he has on the Brady Bunch.

Buried in the same cemetery as Elaine Stritch and Karyn Kupcinet. It's a great trip for DL pilgrimages.

He hated the original show but was oddly enthusiastic about all of the reunions they did. He even loved doing that absurd Variety Hour.

Died in 1991 at the age of 59. He had colon cancer and was HIV+ which significantly contributed to his death.

Sorry 1992!!!

R11, Really? Did they follow up with details. A couple weeks ago someone posted Mark Wahlberg was bi and into black guys, and even liked being pissed on. When I asked for more info about such hot juice....crickets.

He did not appear in the final BB episode that aired. And then the show was not renewed. The producers considered recasting his part if the show had continued.

Florence Henderson said that she didn't know he was gay when she took the BB gig. It finally dawned on her when they were shooting the pilot because she could sense he was really apprehensive about kissing her. It took several takes. She then evidently went to Sherwood Schwartz and said, "This boy ain't straight."

R36, she shouldn't have kissed him until seeing his entire medical physical and report.

He blew me in the parking lot at a gay bar in Pasadena.

Read that he liked to cruise for MUUUUCH younger boys than he.

Like Liberace and many others death outed Robert Reed. While he did suffer from colon cancer and that was the mortal illness which took his life, Robert Reed's death certificate still notes he was HIV+ and that was a "contributing factor" in COD

More.....

"Really? Did they follow up with details"

I think he said he was pretty young when he hooked up with RR - like maybe 19. RR would have been at least 35 at the time. I think this was around the time Brady Bunch was airing or just after it ended

Susan Olsen said he was masculine off camera too . He loved carpentry and camping . He also loved the arts . Back then it was a terrible time to be gay

On the one hand, my heart goes out for Robert Reed in that he was slumming on a sitcom. On the other hand, he really coulda picked better battles.

R36 I remember hearing somethibg similar, Flo saying something to the effect that he would get really nervous and uncomfortable during their bed scenes in TBB but now knowing he had a kid makes me think she may have been reading into it a bit since clearly he had been with women before.

As an aside I am an avid Mistery Science theatre 3000 fan and he pops ups as a protagonist in an oddly enjoyable 50's B horror movie called Bloodlust, he's very young and handsome here. Check it out, it's a hoot

R43

Oh I don't know; things certainly were a mixed bag.

Jack Larson, Hayden Rorke and others were openly gay, well they lived with life partners and pretty much much of Hollywood knew...., and seemed to get on rather well.

Of course much would depend one supposes on where someone saw their acting career going. Robert Reed as "Mr. All American Dad" thanks to Brady Bunch probably either would never have been cast as "Mike Brady" if he was openly gay.

Think those who managed likely learned not to want what they hadn't got.

Dick Sargent made the move, and largely nothing happened.

r46 But of course Sargent didn't come out while he was on "Bewitched". Nothing happened because in 1991 it didn't matter anymore.

I wonder if this every caught Bob's eye? Damn!

True....

r48 But c'mon, Greg Brady was one ugly kid though. Lets be real. Haha.

He actually didn't get perms -- his hair was naturally curly.

He hated the show much that he came back and did every possible follow-up series ... Variety Hour, The Bradys, The Brady Brides ...

He ate Greg's ass more than Flo.

[quote]Who knew that he was ever handsome? Well done, OP

He was very handsome in Rich Man Poor Man, which I re-saw quite recently.

[quote] He actually didn't get perms -- his hair was naturally curly.

r51 Dude, he had a classic 70's perm job. Vidal Sassoon.

He was insufficiently important to be named on the poster.

Cutie!

Too bad he was a bottom.

He was rarely photographed in profile because he didn't like his long nose.

Robert Reed died before his mother, how sad.

He played Peter Bogdanovich in that film about Dorothy Stratten. He was handsome in that.

He was Jewish, I believe. But he never talked about that, either.

[quote] He actually didn't get perms -- his hair was naturally curly.

[quote] Dude, he had a classic 70's perm job. Vidal Sassoon.

Nope, he had curly hair and the kids told the story where the second he got off the plane for the Hawaii episodes, his hair went crazy in the humidity and they decided to leave it.

He had the gay cancer.

With what's been posted here, you'd think Robert Reed hadn't had much of a TV career before TBB. He had trained to be a 'serious' actor. And yes, this was a thing in the 50s. He co-starred on The Defenders with EG Marshall for, I think five or six years. The Defenders was a weekly, Emmy-nominated, legal drama. And Reed joined NY's Actor's Studio while working with Marshall.

After that work and his stage efforts, yes, he thought The Brady Bunch was silly fluff (he did have a more serious, occasional role as a cop on Mannix) at the same time on and he would argue with writers to improve the scripts. So what if he did? He was an actor, working at improving how he was seen on screen with better scripts.

For a man born in 1932, coming to turns with being gay and calculating that acknowledgment on a career in film and TV would make 90% stay in the closet, which is/was really unfortunate.

I love that all of the kids from TBB remember speak fondly and highly of him. His daughter loved him as well. That is a nice legacy to leave behind.

Stay away from the anal sex kids!

In the 80s I saw him on Broadway in Deathtrap. If you know the plot, it was interesting that he chose to do that play.

R12=FRAU

" His daughter loved him as well."

I thought one of the articles said they weren't speaking at the end.

Notice in some episodes of the Brady Bunch that Robert Reed gently spanks a Tush here and there, which I consider quite innocent in the way he did it in a father/child interaction way. He almost went for Florence Henderson at one point, but she coyly shielded her butt with her hands from behinf, you can see them both smiling laughing in the moment ... I have fond memories of the show, even today. :-)

^^from Behind

Was nominated for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "Rich Man, Poor Man".

Was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series-"Roots"

In every single role I've seen him in besides Mike Brady, he comes off as sour and pissy. Every single role!

Try to find even one picture of him smiling post-Bradys. Good luck!

I seem to recall reading that during the run of the show, his relationship with Sherwood Schwartz became strained because he wanted the scripts to be better. He had been a serious actor before BB.

After BB, he seems to have mellowed and changed his mind about it. His career definitely suffered as he got few parts after the show ended.

Those stories about him taking all the actor kids on vacation together seem both really sweet and creepy as well. Like are we sure when they went to London he wasn’t sex trafficking Jan and Marcia to Prince Andrew or Peter and Greg to Stephen Fry?

He was such a prissy queen on Search For Tomorrow.

R76 is a fkin troll. How the fuck can something be both sweet and creepy. They want to inflame the comments with drama and malicious accusations. Of course we at DL are known for that, but the trolls comment is not rooted in any factual evidence.

He was adored by all his costars on a long running TV show - that’s a rare achievement in itself.

Singing and performing was traumatizing for Christopher Knight.

So his whole life was a big fat lie ?

^More like a big fat dick, judging by the way he died.

He didn’t have AIDS at time of death even though he was HIV+

I saw him when he replaced Robert Redford on Broadway in Barefoot in the Park.

Did he fuck Greg?

UCLA had (and perhaps still has) The Robert Reed Award for Shakespearean Acting. When I was there, he was a judge. One kid flubbed his monologue and covered by going into the song"Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Robert Reed was really kind and supportive, praise him for a great recover, etc.

When you read all of the Golden Girls inconsistency threads here, you have an idea of what he was up against. He wasn't fighting to make the show Shakespeare, he was fighting to make the show coherent.

Many years ago, someone posted that he had slept with RR. The poster said he was into leather, and became a real jerk after sex. Basically tossing the poster out.

I think he liked to suck cock on the sly. That's really all I know.

[quote]He didn’t have AIDS at time of death even though he was HIV+

Were you his doctor?

R76 Do you have even the slightest evidence to back up your slander of Stephen Fry? Of course you don't, you slimy fuck.

Who ever convinced him to take on looking like Richard Simmons twin should be shot.

Straightening your hair is time consuming, r90.

R91

There were long since various pomades, creams and lotions that would "slick down" unruly hair.

His performance, as a transsexual, was sublime. I was 12, when I saw it, on "Medical Center." I never forgot it. He deserved an Emmy. At least he was nominated for one.

If Brylcreem wouldn't work there was always Murray's pomade.

he looks like Betty Bacall

Read a recent interview with one of the cast, they said they got paid peanuts. I don't think they made much from repeats either, even though the show was almost never off the air.

Oh for chrissakes, we didn't do slicked down hair in the '70s.

Before the two theatrical movies, he was funny in the parody episode of [italic]Day by Day[/italic] (the NBC sitcom that co-starred the movies' Greg, Christopher Daniel Barnes).

R90 There was that whole permanent-wave-for-men trend back then. I remember it more from the 80s. Short-lived, not surprisingly.

[quote]He did another tv movie where he played an obscene phone caller.

"The Secret Night Caller" is on YouTube. While the phone bits are restrained (you don't hear what he says), he goes for it in the scene where he attacks his wife (played by Hope Lange). Sylvia Sidney briefly shows up as his terrible mother.

^ That sounds like a camp hoot

Say what you will, but Robert Reed's Find-A-Grave page is filled with over 2k tributes, and many of those are recent as in 2022. The man must have done some good in the world for so many to keep that flame burning.

His real name was John Rietz Junior.

He only made 9 movies and never got his name above the title.

R103, you hateful cunt.

He took all the kids with his own daughter on a special transatlantic cruise to Europe.

He didn't like doing the show because the scripts were so bad, but he LOVED doing the variety hour because he loved singing. He had a decent voice, but nothing spectacular, and he knew it; but he also knew he would get to sing with someone with a spectacular voice (Florence Henderson) who would make him sound all the better. And plus Barry Williams, Geri Reischl, Mike Lookinland, and Maureen McCormack all had splendid singing voices too (and Susan Olsen's voice was perfectly fine--only Christopher Knight couldn't sing).

R104 = a Datalounger unable to cope with reality.

David Hedison said he was offered the part of Mr. Brady when they were casting the show and he turned it down, because after years of battling monsters on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, he didn't want to get stuck in a series where he'd have to act with kids and a dog.

I was probably too young to appreciate it (I was 9-13 during its run), but my parents watched "The Defenders" and I recall watching it with them and thinking Reed was attractive.

[quote] his hair was naturally curly

Did his hair go curly the same time as Babs did?

That 2nd scene from Medical Center with Robert Reed is quite well done—both actors handled it so well…

SIZE MEAT VERIFICATIA?

Well, he was no Donna Reed, that’s for sure.

He had sec with Tiger

Sex!

Tigger?

He was under contract (to Paramount, I believe), so it was probably this or not getting money or being cast in something equally horrible. Even if you accept the premise that the show was meant to appeal to kids, it made earlier shows like Ozzie and Harriet or Donna Reed seem like Ibsen.

I think Donna Reed fashioned her show after A Doll’s House if I’m not mistaken.

Robert Reed Daughter REFUSES To License His Image For Brady Products

On all licensed "Brady"-related lunchboxes, T-shirts and other merchandise currently available (since it appears Brady stuff will always be available) Mike Brady has been rubbed out.

Not long before he died, however, Robert Reed took the advice of his then-lawyer Dan Kossow (a well-known entertainment attorney who also represented Adam "Batman" West) and refused to sign a deal with Viacom/Paramount that would let the corporation use his '70s-era visage on Brady products. The rest of the cast had agreed, so Viacom decided it could carry on without Mr. Brady.

Reed's estate is now handled by Chicago attorney Cary S. Fleischer.

"There's no question that his daughter and his grandson care deeply about his image," Fleischer says. "They're happy the Brady show is played and replayed, and sometimes, when someone wants to use his image for a charitable purpose, we say fine. But we take this very seriously."

Fleischer said he reviewed the Viacom/Paramount offer years ago and still advised Karen Baldwin (Robert Reed's daughter) not to take it. "I told her it would be to her benefit to keep these rights, that any money that could come from it was going to be insignificant." (When pressed, Fleischer says he considers $5,000 to be "significant" and that the merchandise potential was "a lot less than that.")

"The family has turned down offer after offer," Fleischer says, from producers and writers who want to tell the "whole" Robert Reed story: "A lot of the publicity about him has gone toward one part of his life, rather than the way the family wants him remembered."

And in this way, Mr. Brady abdicated part of his throne.

"Does it matter that he's not on T-shirts?" Fleischer says. "I don't think so. His presence still exists. He's the all-American father. He always will be."

[quote]David Hedison said he was offered the part of Mr. Brady when they were casting the show and he turned it down, because after years of battling monsters on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, he didn't want to get stuck in a series where he'd have to act with kids and a dog.

I used to watch reruns of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. On Saturday afternoons in syndication. My little gay self used to think David Hedison was so handsome and sexy.

Hedison had been in grade-Z movies and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea got hokey after awhile. You knew that he recognized that "Brady Bunch" was not a step up for his career.

Sam the butcher fucked this man silly. Ann B Davis had to be kept away from the girls. According to Sherwood Swartz's autobiography.

Shit whoever said Bradley Cooper is spot on.

Also I can’t stand people who are on fluff shows and take the money and then proceed to make complaints to TPTB as if they were doing Shakespeare. From what I’ve read on here Kate Jackson was another one like that.

Just take the $ and enjoy the fame - or don’t.

R116, and yet people still watch the Brady Bunch, while no one gives two shits about The Donna Reed Show

R40 I don’t quite think you needed death to “out” Liberace.

Liberace wasn't gay. He was a nice boy.

R62 I always suspected that, too. What about Barry Williams? My Jewdar always went way off for him.

R61 no that was John Ritter. They gave him glasses and all that to make him look more “nerdy” and Bogdanovich-like. I never saw most of that movie though.

If you watch the first season of BB you'll see RR in OP's look. Minus the facial hair. After that...

Haters gotta hate but I think he was exceptionally brave to do that Medical Center. Good for Mr. Brady.

There were rumors that Robert Reed cruised Pasadena looking for young guys, but that seemed like rumor rather than anything with first person observation.

He looked cute with the perm.

No guy ever looked cute with a 70s perm job

Even as a kid I sensed his discomfort in kissing scenes etc . I wonder if he was molested as a kid . Gay actors can be very into heterosexual love Scenes

Yes only sex abuse victims might not to act well enough to fake a kiss…you’ve hit a nail on the head by Jove!

Rumor has it that he liked the black boys.

He was very much like Tina Louise: very serious about his craft and probably shouldn’t have been on a corny sitcom. He got mad and stormed off the set of The Brady Bunch final episode and does not appear in that episode.

Fun fact: DL fave Joyce Bulifant was a serious contender to play Carol Brady.

Even in OP picture. There is a distant , detached look

Gene Hackman was supposedly the other choice for Mike Brady. I’m not sure if he passed or the studio passed on him but he was coming off an Oscar nod for Bonnie and Clyde so he couldn’t have been considered too unknown. You have to wonder if Reed knew Hackman was the other choice and was jealous since hackmans career really took off in 1970.

Reeds closest friend at the time of his death was actress Anne Haney who was a pretty prolific character actress and didn’t start acting until she was almost 40 and was Thelma Harpers nemesis Alberta meachum on mamas family.

[quote] Even in OP picture. There is a distant , detached look

Yes, it's almost as though he doesn't want to be there. He couldn't be compared with someone like Alan Rickman.

R122, the thing about it is the Brady Bunch was not a hit during its initial run; it became a hit during syndication. It was a mediocre show with mediocre ratings. The Bradys were not household faces. I guess Reed was attempting to inject some life into a fluff show with mediocre ratings. The Bradys became huge during syndication hence all the one off specials and reunions. I guess Brady was pragmatic at that point; he wasn't A list so he could make some bank to live comfortably and still be a working actor.

Many of you shill for companies you do not like making a whole lot less.

I believe the ratings suddenly shot up when he got the perm.

It isn't rumors, he sucked my dick in the parking lot of a gay bar in Pasadena. Don't remember the name.

Sherwood never paid anyone for anything. Gilligan's Island or BB. He died a rich Jew.

He sucked me in the meat locker.

R140 -- Encounters?? I love that 70s Gay Bar Name

Tina, at least they still take your bad checks! I had to shove lamb chops up my cuz.

r140 - details?

In his prime David Hedison was hot as fuck.

Fine, I'll do it. It *wasn't* a goddam perm!

[quote] r12 I'm not convinced he was gay. Maybe bi but even that doesn't really line up with his life.

[quote] r20 [R12] is trolling. There is always somebody who does that on these threads to go against established truths. He was gay and closeted, his colleagues and his daughter all acknowledge.

Hmmm. I see that a lot here. Anybody who disagrees with the perceived hivemind's version of truth is labelled a troll. Don't contradict us!

He's not trolling. Reed has a biological daughter. His bisexuality is evident.

Yeah, and John Travolta has biological children, but he's still a 'mo

I thought I blocked you. Try again, Platonic.

Well I guess if you consider bisexuality because he produced an offspring from a marriage he didn't want to be in. We must remember the times. Most men got married back then, even closeted gay actors. Was he ever linked to any other women. I mean I do see your point. I mean suppose Richard Simmons had a one night stand with Liza 30 years ago and she got pregnant with twins. Would we consider Richard Simmons bi?

r151 I guess my larger point here is that one is not a troll merely because they "go against established truths". "Established truths"? Haha.

I mean c'mon, r20 's boast that he knows the truth and there can be no other opinion spells BLOWHARD. And I'm not even gonna dismiss r20 as a troll.

Reed may be as gay as Richard Simmons and the sugarplum fairy. But he has a daughter. It's not trolling to suggest he might be bi.

His daughter needed a good tight perm.

Platonic=DeFucktard/Edwiener/sock*puppet

Perms are back, and Toni's got em!

There were many fads during 1970's, perms were one of them.

White guys had the "man perm". Coloured guys had the "Jherri Curl". Either way during 1970's lots of guys were getting permanent waves.

More..

Bowie

Perms are back apparently, they're all the rage on TikTok....

[quote] Perms are back apparently, they're all the rage on TikTok....

r159 And they look as awful now as they did then. If bell bottoms came back I wouldn't wear them either. Some of us have a fashion sense which transcends fads.

r158 Those oversized rose tinted shades didn't do La Bowie any favors either. Lol.

EVERYBODY got perms then.

R156, jherri curl was 80s. Black people were rockin fros in the 70s.

[quote]Coloured...?

R154, I don't know if he is those people but he seems trollish because trolls always double down on their original argument without engaging what you are saying.

R153 she needed slapped

Never understood the appeal of this

His beard was later drawn in using a black sharpie

In the 1980s, he did a tour of the play “Doubles” with Gabe Kaplan. He must have had a crap agent to be second billed to Gabe Kaplan.

His career was not going to take off like Hackman's. Hackman was a character actor who was able to play leads and he could do comedy. Reed belonged on an hour drama like "The Defenders".

Schwartz, like everyone else gave people standard contracts and, with mediocre ratings, there isn't much room for re-negotiation. Esp. in those days, it was a gamble to sign on to a series---if it flopped, you made rather little for a year. If it was a hit, you might make a little for a long time, but could do personal appearances and probably get a percentage of merchandising. Real stars had percentage ownership deals---again a gamble because there might be nothing to syndicate---but they did it to avoid high marginal taxes as much or more than to make more money overall.

Is it true that Tina is barred from entering Bristol Farms and they have old cast photos up from Gillian Island to identify her as such?

R140: Pasadena has never been brimming with gay bars, with a little effort, you probably could name it.

and Ann B Davis as

the

LESBIAN 🦾

What's the up side to having had sex with a celebrity who had a raging HIV infection at the time of the illicit act?

Did Tina make a play for young Brad?

Read it and weep.

Some people just can't keep their private lives private.

r62 r126 Robert Reed was not Jewish.

oy

R95, Bacall's voice was deeper.

Howard Hawks, the director of her first movie, thought her voice wasn't husky, if you can imagine. It didn't fit the film character and her image. She lowered it. Then, the years of smoking further deepen her voice.

I think OP’s photo was from an episode of “Family Affair”. Specifically season 1, episode 14, titled “think deep”. RR was a hippy dippy teacher of niece Cissy. She fell under his spell based on his dreamy looks and bedroom eyes,as did I when I saw it in syndication years later. Did not realize until later it was Mike Brady.

Of course, Uncle Biiiiil set Cissy straight so to speak. I think French had a crush on him. I did.

^ Oh brother, talk about in the weeds.

r181 - It's Uncle B.O., Midge.

[quote]Then, the years of smoking further deepen her voice.

Not to mention all that High Point coffee.

(I'll assume she never partook of the cat food.)

The swimsuit could pass for a today's sexy square cut.

He was in Hurry Sundown and Star!

Maureen McCormick had such a huge crush on him while they were filming the show. All the girls did.

And Florence Henderson hated her itchy costumes, and would strip down topless in between takes whenever she could.

R186 I saw both of those but have NO memory of him in them.

[quote]The swimsuit could pass for a today's sexy square cut.

... but square-cut does not go well with pear-shaped.

^Oblivious? Or maybe "obvious" works, too.

He had a nice furry chest

I can’t think of many shows, if any, where the majority of the cast has reunited for a new series (like their variety show) or a retrospective (the 35th anniversary reunion special) multiple times. Think about it. The show premiered in 1969 and they appeared in A Very Brady Renovation in 2019. That’s a 50 year span. People loved the show and the actors. I do as well. I grew up with them.

From R36, [quote]She then evidently went to Sherwood Schwartz and said, "This boy ain't straight."

What a bitch!

Is this a perm or hairspray?

The hairstylists on the Brady Bunch were miracle workers I tell ya!

Hairspray!

*

I've heard from people who were around the business back in those days that even though he was deeply closeted, he was pretty much a sexual athlete on the same level as Rock Hudson. Supposedly insatiable and liked 'em hot and masculine with big peckers. In other words he was a major league bottom who enjoyed having his second mussy split open.

Joyce actually had the role of Carol Brady. Everything was set up and then big Flo got the role.

None of the BB kids knew he was gay, but Henderson said she knew all along.

I recently saw Robert in two episodes of the 1983-1988 TV series Hotel. In one episode, he played a guy engaged to a woman and he was molesting her young daughter! In the other episode, he was married to DL fave Deidre Hall but he was having an affair with his male colleague!

One of his three "Murder She Wrote"s.

Poor Robert, forced to do a bottom-rated daytime soap. He starts at :15. Just awful. I mean seriously awful.

Robert Reed did Love American Style. He played a straight swinger. 🤣🤣🤣. He was trying to get a woman into bed. It was the worst acting I’ve ever seen from him.

[quote]he was married to DL fave Deidre Hall but he was having an affair with his male colleague!

That would explain her ribbon reluctance.

Op’s pic was doctored with a sharpie beard

R203: I wonder if he complained about the scripts on "Search for Tomorrow"?

Bio book about our Robert, a work in progress.

r185 Damn was he was packing

Des Plaines. Now it makes sense. The John Wayne Gacy connection.

[quote]Is this a perm or hairspray?

Finger in electrical socket.

He was a working actor r203 not a big star, it probably paid decent and covered a few bills or his SAG insurance. Oddly it doesn’t show up on his list of IMDb credits. He worked right up until the end. It would’ve been fun to see him and Flo cameo together in the Brady Bunch movies.

Reed, Knight, Williams, Plumb, and McCormick all wound up slumming in soaps post-BB.

R213- It's not like the went from being on Upstairs Downstairs to Soaps

THAT would be slumming

[quote]Is this a perm or hairspray?

It's Wesson, R196!

Robert Reed’s greatest contribution was being a pass around bottom in the backseat of a Desoto.

[quote] Damn was he was packing

On no planet in the universe does that photo show any evidence that he was packing. There's not even any hint of bulgification or moundage. He did have a lovely body though.

Even Mary Stuart called Robert a bitter old queen when he was slumming on Search For Tomorrow.