Posted on 01/16/2014 12:04:13 PM PST by lowbridge
Dawn Wells has posted on her facebook page that Russell Johnson passed away this morning.
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He was actually in 2 episodes of the Twilight Zone. See post 41.
You know you’re walking down the south side of the mountain when Mrs. Howell is looking good to you.
I don’t know if it’s an urban legend but I was told that the name “Gilligan” came from from Newton Minnow, the then Chair of the FCC who called TV back in 1961 a “vast wasteland”.
He also co-starred with William Shatner in a classic “Thriller” tv show hosted by Boris Karloff.
Try to catch Dawn Wells in one of her pre-Gilligan, black-and-white appearances. She’s actually even prettier. Almost stunningly so. I recall seeing her in roles in things like “Surfside Six” and whatnot, and being quite impressed. Nice gal, too. I met her once.
Roy Hinkley.
No. However, he did apparently appear in some westerns.
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Movie and television career:
He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared with him in three of his films, Column South and Tumbleweed in 1953 and Ride Clear of Diablo in 1954. Johnson’s Hollywood career began in 1952, with the college fraternity hazing exposé For Men Only, and with Loan Shark, also released in 1952 and starring George Raft. His early roles were primarily in westerns and science fiction such as It Came from Outer Space (1953), This Island Earth (1955), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1956), and The Space Children (1958). He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955).
During the 1950s, he guest starred on Rod Cameron’s syndicated crime drama, City Detective. He played the head of a gang of crooks in Episode 17 of season 1 of The Adventures of Superman (January, 1953). He was cast on the religion anthology series, Crossroads. He played “The Sundown Kid” in an episode of the 1958 NBC western series, Jefferson Drum. He guest starred too in another NBC western series, The Californians.
Late in 1958, Johnson and Joe Flynn were cast in the episode “The Bells of Fear” of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. In the story line, an elderly clockmaker trying to repair the chimes in a church clock is trapped inside the instrument just before Christmas Eve.[1]
Johnson was cast in the role of Darius in the 1959 episode, “The Unwilling”, of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds. In the story line, businessman Dan Simpson, played by Eddie Albert, attempts to open a general store in the American West despite a raid from Mississippi River pirates who stole from him $20,000 in merchandise. Debra Paget is cast in this episode as Lela Russell; John M. Pickard, uncredited, as a river pirate.[2]
Johnson appeared three times on the syndicated military drama The Silent Service, based on actual stories of the submarine section of the United States Navy. Johnson was cast as Hugh Grafton and as Tom Richards in two 1960 episodes, “Intermission” and “The Desperate Challenge”, both with June Allyson on her CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Johnson was cast as John T. Metcalf in the 1962 episode “Mile-Long Shot to Kill” of CBS’s anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. In 1963, he was cast in an episode of the short-lived ABC/Warner Brothers western series, The Dakota. Later in that same year, he was cast in the series premiere of the ABC medical drama Breaking Point starring Paul Richards and Eduard Franz.
Black Saddle:
From 1959 to 1960, Johnson had a recurring role as Marshal Gib Scott on the ABC half-hour western series, Black Saddle, with Peter Breck as the gunslinger-turned-lawyer Clay Culhane, Anna-Lisa as Nora Travers, J. Pat O’Malley as Judge Caleb Marsh, and Walter Burke as Tim Potter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Johnson#Military_career
Holy Moses. She was Smoking Hot! Scenes of her in a slip with that push-up bra? Oh my..
(excusing myself here)
Maybe we change to Saber Cat.
A Cougar can hold its prey.
Sorry, gave the wrong link in 109.
Here’s the right one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Johnson#Movie_and_television_career
Skipper too, as I recall.
I remember that movie about fraternity hazing, “For Men Only” (1952), although on tv it was retitled “The Big Lie,” I believe. Haven’t seen it in over thirty years, but I remember it being rather hard-hitting. A pledge was taken out to the woods and was supposed to shoot a dog, and there was a scene in which a gal ripped her blouse in a schoolroom and ran screaming in order to frame a prof.
That's correct. Unfortunately, you replied to post 92 instead of 91, and so we cannot present you with the prize. :)
She's OK, no doubt about it.
But I think any number of TV hotties were better than her at the time.
Besides Dawn Wells, there's Barbara Eden, and... well...
Does anyone remember the two or three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in which Sharon Tate appeared?
I saw her on that show when I was about eight years old, and I had never seen anyone as pretty in my life. She really grabbed my attention, even though I was way to young to be interested in the opposite sex. There was just something about her though.
It wasn't until the internet - and Google - that I was able to find out that that had been Sharon Tate. She played a character named Janet Trego.
That never happened....you must have dreamed it.
“Johnson played Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan’s Island.”
http://classictelevisionshows.blogspot.com/2013/04/gilligans-island-will-they-ever-come.html
Skipper- Jonas Grumby
Professor- Roy Hinkley
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