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My offering is Joe and Mike Mayer. Twins who both played the role of Little Ricky for 3 years on the hit tv show "I love Lucy".
http://www.idahopress.com/community/little-ricky-twins-now-live-in-gem-county/article_f53582bd-95bd-5feb-b45e-606b372a2fb8.html
skylucy
(3,739 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)don't make them like that anymore.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)skylucy
(3,739 posts)then in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)she meant so much to us "gals of certain age"
you just didn't see independent women that much on TV, and certainly not weekly (Nichelle Nichols playing Uhura was my other favorite, long with Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty)
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Her on tv brother Billy Anderson (Bud) is still alive too
rurallib
(62,406 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Mary was the daughter on the Donna Reed show, I think.
I need to go look and see if she's still alive. Off to wikipedia.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Her brother on the show Paul Petersen is still alive too.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,175 posts)that supports child actors and other child professionals.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Fairly sure both are still alive
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)So no relation. I remember Nanette Fabray mostly from all of the variety shows on tv. She is still alive and is 96!
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Probably helped somehow in the world of Hollywood. Thanks, for letting me know that tidbit.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)All I could find was that Shelley kept the original family name and that Nanette changed it. So we both learned some Hollywood trivia
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Did you know Martin Sheen's birth name is Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez? Emilio and Charlie's mom's name is Janet Sheen. That's where the Sheen came from.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I didn't know anything about them. I just know them as actors and never game them much thought past that.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)A nearby community college plays her very early "Life With Elizabeth" from time to time
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)Hopefully that will not change in the future.
https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/report-says-jim-nabors-marries-partner-in-seattle/
TexasBushwhacker
(20,175 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)PSPS
(13,593 posts)Also, Mel Brooks turns 91 in June and started as a writer for "Your show of shows" in 1950. He started appearing in front of the TV camera on The Steve Allen Show in 1961.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)He went to high school with life long friend Don Adams and served on a submarine tender ship, the USS Proteus, in the Navy during WWII with Tony Curtis.
"Future actors Tony Curtis whose birth name was Bernard Schwartz and Larry Storch were aboard Proteus at Tokyo Bay in AugustSeptember 1945 and watched much of the formal surrender activities aboard USS Missouri from Proteus's signal bridge"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Proteus_(AS-19)
doc03
(35,325 posts)UTUSN
(70,684 posts)LeftInTX
(25,259 posts)unc70
(6,110 posts)94 now.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Was first a mousekateer on Mickey Mouse Club. Now he conducts his own jazz orchestra.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)I think he's the only surviving cast member from that show.
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)True Dough
(17,302 posts)Old "living" celebrities get named here and then the worst happens...
LeftInTX
(25,259 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)UCLA (go Bruins), graduated during the final season
Harvard Law School
California State Assembly (term limited)
California State Senate (term limited)
Los Angeles County Supervisor
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)Tuesday Weld (my long time crush!)
Dwayne Hickman
Warren Beatty
Michael J Pollard
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Hell, if they were smart, they would have spun off Maynard G. Krebs and cousin Jerome into another TV show, but apparently Michael J. Pollard was just to quirky for the writers.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,175 posts)are still living.
John Astin had a long career as an actor and then taught drama for many years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He may still. He's 86.
Lisa Loring is 58. She was on a soap for a few years. She's had 4 marriages (including one for 5 years to 80s porn star Jerry Butler) and had a heroin addiction in her 30s.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,175 posts)Sherry Jackson is 74. She retired from acting in 1980.
Angela Cartwright is 64. She only had occassional cameos since the 80s. She's now a professional photographer.
Rusty Hamer, who played their brother, was never able to get a career going as an adult. He killed himself in 1990 at age 42.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)....brought to mind by Angela Cartwright since they were both on Lost in Space. But he'll always be the Cornfield Wish Kid to me from the classic Twilight Zone episode.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)ZoltarSpeaks
(90 posts)The episode was entitled "The Night the World Ended" from 1957. I spotted him right away even though he was around 14 at the time.
And he had been acting for 4 years already.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)JEEZ, I remember seeing him on TV over 50 years ago
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Phyllis Coates. The original Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman.
R. P. McMurphy
(834 posts)from Gilligan's Island.
Robert Clary from Hogan's Heroes.
Mendocino
(7,486 posts)Best brain surgeon/fry cook/double ought spy in TV history.
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)Chuck on the "Bob Cummings Show" in 1955-59 and then Dobie Gillis from 1959-63.
Wolf
Tom Kitten
(7,346 posts)Tim Conway from McHales Navy, etc.
Ken Osmond, "Eddie Haskell" from Leave It To Beaver
Johnny Whittaker and Kathy Garver from "Family Affair"
Jay North, "Dennis the Menace"...
June Lockhart, Lassie's mom!
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)Carol Burnett (goes all the way back to "The Gary Moore Show"
Bob Newhart
sl8
(13,748 posts)and the first series to show a woman's pregnancy on television:
(1947 - 1950)
Mary Kay Stearns:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_and_Johnny
Mary Kay and Johnny:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Stearns
I didn't know any of the preceeding (?) until today. Thank you, OP, for the stimulus to research.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)She's 83