No....RIP
I remember this guy in a movie with Nick Nolte but I don't recall the title...
Born in 1928 as William West Anderson in Walla Walla, Washington, West decided to pursue stardom from an early age. His mother, Audrey Speer, was an opera singer and concert pianist, but abandoned her Hollywood dreams to care for her children. After he graduated from Whitman College with a literature degree, he was drafted into the Army, where he worked as an announcer on American Forces Network television. After his discharge, West worked for a stint on the Hawaii childrenās program El Kini Popo Show, then moved to Hollywood in 1959 and changed his name. He liked the way Adam looked and sounded with his middle name, he wrote in his autobiography, so he combined the two to become Adam West.
In the ā60s, West appeared in films such as Geronimo, The Outlaws Is Coming and Robinson Crusoe on Mars. He rocketed to stardom with a lead role in ABCās Batman and will be remembered for his campy, slapstick portrayal of the Caped Crusader on a show that frequently edged into satire. āHe was bright, witty and fun to work with,ā Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman to Westās Batman, said in a statement Saturday. āI will miss him in the physical world and savour him always in the world of imagination and creativity.ā Though the network cancelled it after three seasons, NBC was set to pick up the rights for a fourth, but before they could begin production, someone destroyed the sets. The cost to rebuild them was too great, and the deal fell through.
October 1966: American actor Adam West with the actress Jill St John at the premiere of director John Huston's film, The Bible.
West was increasingly typecast and struggled to find work for a stretch after Batman, appearing in low-budget movies like Curse of the Moon Child through the 1970s. āYou get terribly typecast playing a character like that,ā he told The Associated Press in a 2014 interview. āBut in the overall, Iām delighted because my character became iconic and has opened a lot of doors in other ways, too.ā He was offered the role of James Bond in 1971ās Diamonds Are Forever, but turned it down because he believed the role should be played by a British actor.
He remained a pop culture icon, and reignited his career by lending his silky smooth voice to animated shows like The Fairly OddParents, The Simpsons and Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, and through appearances as himself on shows like The Big Bang Theory, The Drew Carey Show and 30 Rock. Most recently, he voiced the mayor of Quahog ā named Adam West ā in Family Guy. āOur dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight and aspired to make a positive impact on his fansā lives. He was and always will be our hero,ā his family said in a statement. West was married three times, and had six children. He had homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, but he and his wife, Marcelle, spent most of their time at their ranch near Sun Valley, Idaho.
Batman, Family Guy actor Adam West dead at 88 after battle with leukemia
Furst died Friday at his home in Moorpark, California, north of Los Angeles, said his son, Nathan Furst. Furst played Kent āFlounderā Dorfman in the 1978 film that also starred John Belushi. It was Belushi's character, Blutarsky, who drew Flounder into a prank that went terribly wrong and ended up with the frantic Flounder shooting a gun loaded with blanks into a ceiling, frightening a horse so much that it died of a heart attack.
Furstās long list of credits included the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere, on which he played Dr. Elliot Axelrod. He played Vir Coto and was an occasional director on the 1990s sci-fi series Babylon 5.
Actor Stephen Furst poses for a photo in Los Angeles in May 1986. Furst's family said the "Animal House" actor died of complications from diabetes
He also voiced characters on projects including TVās Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and the video The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea. āHe was proudest of his family, and he felt blessed and incredibly privileged to have the career that he had an enjoyed,ā Nathan Furst said Saturday.
Stephen Furst also was a director and producer, working with his other son, Griff. Their Curmudgeon Film projects included the movies My Sisterās Keeper and Cold Moon, a suspense thriller set for release in October, Griff Furst said. Stephen Furstās survivors include his wife, Lorraine, and two grandchildren, his sons said.
Stephen Furst, of āAnimal Houseā and āSt. Elsewhere,ā Dies at 63
Shepard died Thursday of complications from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) "and was with his family at the time of his death," his agent Chris Boneau said Monday. Born Samuel Shepard Rogers on Nov. 5, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, Shepard was an Army brat whose family lived in Italy, South Dakota, Utah, Guam and the Philippines before settling on a ranch in California. He described his dad as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic." "My father had a real short fuse," Shepard told The Guardian newspaper. "My father was full of terrifying anger." So as a child, Shepard learned to hold his tongue. And he grew up to be a man who rarely gave interviews but who poured his words into 44 plays along with numerous books, memoirs and short stories.
Shepard at first planned to become a veterinarian. But he caught the acting bug in college and wound up in a touring theater group. He was 19 when he arrived in New York City in 1963. He worked as a busboy and began writing. And he found his footing in an artsy crowd that included poet and rock singer Patti Smith. He made his first mark off-Broadway with edgy and often-bleak plays about rootless people on the fringes of society. In 1979, he won the Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child" and a year later was hailed by New York magazine as the "greatest American playwright of his generation," which dubbed his work "quintessentially American."
Playwright Sam Shepard with Jessica Lange at the opening of the New York Film Festival in 1984.
Two other Shepard plays, "True West" and "Fool for Love," were also nominated for Pulitzers and wound up being produced on Broadway. Shepard went on to write the screenplays for movies like "Zabriskie Point" and "Paris, Texas." He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of his play "Fool for Love." And his novel, "The One Inside," was published in February. But it was the square-jawed Shepard's turns in "Days of Heaven," "Black Hawk Down," "Steel Magnolias" and other movies that made him a familiar figures to millions more Americans. His most recent acting turn was playing the patriarch of a troubled Florida Keys family in the Netflix series "Bloodline."
He is survived by his writer son Jesse, from his marriage to actress O-Lan Jones, his other son Walker and daughter Hannah, from his 30-year relationship with actress Jessica Lange. Shepard and Lange met on the set of the movie "Frances" and were a couple until 2009, when they separated. Other survivors include Shepard's sisters Sandy and Roxanne Rogers. Boneau said Shepard's funeral will be private and "plans for a public memorial have not yet been determined."
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, dead at Age 73
Hall launched Letās Make a Deal in 1963. It first premiered as part of NBCās daytime line-up before moving to ABC in 1968, where it continued through 1976. A syndicated version of Deal aired on and off through the 1970s and 80s, before returning to NBC for a brief run from 1990-91. The show was eventually revived with host Wayne Brady in 2009, with Hall putting in occasional guest appearances. In addition to Letās Make a Deal, Hall headlined various other game shows, including The Hollywood Squares and Password All-Stars.
āWe are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Monty Hall, a television legend who hosted a show and created a format that has entertained audiences for more than 50 years,ā Angelica McDaniel, CBS Entertainmentās Exec VP of Daytime Programs and Syndicated Program Development, said in a statement. āMontyās infectious enthusiasm, humor and warmth were a winning combination that was evident to everyone he encountered, whether returning to make appearances on the current version of Letās Make a Deal, or gracing us with his presence at a photo shoot celebrating CBS Daytime earlier this year. On screen, Monty made the āBig Deals,ā but in the game of life, he himself was one. Our hearts go out to his children, his entire family and friends.ā
Hall is survived by his three children, including actress Joanna Gleason and TV producers Sharon Hall Kessler and Richard Hall.
Monty Hall, Iconic Let's Make a Deal Host, Dead at 96
