Posted on 06/10/2012 5:08:25 PM PDT by Borges
Frank Cady, 96, a character actor who played Hooterville general-store proprietor Sam Drucker on the TV sitcoms “Green Acres” and “Petticoat Junction,” died Friday at his home in Wilsonville, Ore., said his daughter, Catherine Turk. No specific cause was given.
Like Mr. Haney, Eb Dawson, Hank Kimball and Arnold the Pig, Cady’s Sam Drucker was a supporting cast member on “Green Acres” to lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas and his socialite wife, Lisa, played by Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor, who had ditched the high life in New York City for the charms of a farm in Hooterville.
Cady played Drucker for the entire run of “Green Acres” on CBS, from 1965 to 1971, when it was canceled.
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Eb also came by my Daughter’s Sunday School class and spoke to the kids.
If they remade “Gilligan’s Island”, Gilligan would have to be gay.
Come on guy - there was no air force in WWII
You probably mean the Army Air Corps
Hard to disagree. I watched reruns for years as a kid and that was one show when the laugh track had to remind you that a joke had been told. It was a very sleepy, gentle show during a time when things in the US were becoming increasingly turbulent socially. At the very least, it appealed to an older and nostalgic demographic.
Well, with no more attention than he paid to Mary Ann and Ginger it would have to be the Professor. How he could ignore Mary Ann I will never know:)
William Schallert Also played a part on “The trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek(the original series).
Didn't Druckers Store have a pickle barrel with plastic pickles in it? I think Oliver or somebody tried to bite into one. I'm old enough to remember when rural areas like mine had General Stores like Druckers. They were good for saving a trip too town.
The generation of Frank Cady were hardly innocent . They grew up in a time where medicine was still in it’s infancy. No anti-biotics, whooping cough ,flus,
and heart problems killed.
But they had stronger morals greater family cohesion perhaps less apathetic on social issues. For certain there were no guarantees. Those were the days when people could sleep outside in the hot summer nights. They knew crime and corruption exist. They knew what hunger was.
But by God they persevered through a depression and WWII.
No generation before them were”innocence”
The Baby Boomers and Gen X are the innocent , frivolous Generation.
They gave us clinton and Obama.
Perhaps they too will mature in these decisive times.
He was one of the good ones. RIP sir.
LOL! That struck me as funny, too. He WAS 96, fercryin'outloud!
Ah, yes...back when the days when entertainment just 'entertained''.
That reminds me of when my daughters were about 9 years old. They brought me a DVD we'd just gotten of the original Lone Ranger series to find out if they could watch it because it didn't have a rating on it.
They were so intrigued that shows once were watchable by everyone, it opened a whole new world of entertainment to them enjoying "clean programs".
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RIP, Mr. Cady. You and others of your generation knew what entertainment was all about.
TBH and the AGS also benefited from excellent writing keyed to some fine performances. Barney Fife and Granny were two of the greatest TV characters ever, surpassed only by Homer Simpson.
I always thought that PJ was too soft and gentle for a TV comedy. GA, on the other hand, felt like the writers were toking MJ.
As for hitting puberty in the midst of all that fine femininity, what you said.
Before television, radio shows were listened to and enjoyed by the whole family. Robert Bork made the astute observation, for which he is mocked by the Libertine Left, that the invention of the portable transistor radio facilitated the compartmentalizing of the generations. All of a sudden, teenagers could be specifically targeted and their youthful rebelliousness affirmed by the progressive cultural termites.
Those '60s shows were so great for lovely female characters. I wanted to be Billie Jo Bradley's boyfriend so bad. I had huge teen (and pre-teen) crushes on Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), Kathy Garver (Family Affair) and Dorothy Provine (Roaring 20s). Alas, Elizabeth and Dorothy, RIP...:-(
The thing that always struck me about Albert’s heroics, and those of so many like him, was the reluctance to accept any fuss or accolades over it. I saw an interview with him a couple years before his death. When the subject came up, he merely said something to the effect of “We were all just doing our job.”
BTW, Alvy Moore, who played the County Ag agent “Mr. Kimball” on Green Acres, was also in WW2. He was a Marine and fought at Iwo Jima.
All of this ultimately leading up to Silverman’s infamous 1980 season at NBC, a time and place of television so awful it has been redacted from history to a degree that would make Stalin proud.
I don't know nor care. I got this info from Wikipedia, for whatever that's worth.
That he served is what matters to me.
I don’t know nor care. I got this info from Wikipedia, for whatever that’s worth.
Yes, perhaps you see whats its worth now.
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