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Walter Tetley (born Walter Campbell Tetzlaff; [1] June 2, 1915 – September 4, 1975) [2] was an American actor specializing in child impersonation during radio's classic era. . He had regular roles as Leroy Forrester on The Great Gildersleeve and Julius Abbruzzio on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, as well as continuing as a voice-over artist in animated cartoons, commercials, and spoken-word ...
The show's humor, like that of McGee, was drawn through clever word-play and phrasemaking as well as Gildersleeve's earnest stumbling and basically warmhearted nature. His on-screen nemesis was Judge Horace Hooker ( Earle Ross ), who oversaw his guardianship of Marjorie and Leroy and became a friend and periodic rival in various schemes.
The Great Gildersleeve premiered on NBC on August 31, 1941. It moves the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve oversees his late sister and brother-in-law's estate (said to have both been killed in a car accident) and rears his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie and Leroy Forrester.
Willard Lewis Waterman (August 29, 1914 – February 2, 1995) [1] was an American character actor in films, TV and on radio, remembered best for replacing Harold Peary as the title character of The Great Gildersleeve at the height of that show's popularity.
Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee; July 29, 1933) is a retired American actor.Fuller was known for his deep “charcoal” voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, and as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the medical/action drama Emergency!
"NCIS: Origins" has cast its Gibbs. Austin Stowell will play the younger version of Mark Harmon's signature "NCIS" character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, in the drama's upcoming CBS prequel.
James Wade Hampton (July 9, 1936 – April 7, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his TV roles such as Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs on F Troop (1965–1967), Leroy B. Simpson on The Doris Day Show (1968–1969), Love, American Style (1969–1974), and his movie roles such as "Caretaker" in The Longest Yard (1974), a role which garnered him ...
Today, CBS announced that Austin Stowell has been cast as young Leroy Jethro Gibbs—the role made famous by Mark Harmon—in NCIS: Origins, which is slated to premiere in the fall 2024-2025 season.