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Dobie's often apoplectic father, Herbert T. Gillis (Frank Faylen), owned a grocery store and was only happy when Dobie was behind a broom. Dobie's mother, Winifred ( Florida Friebus ), was a usually calm and serene woman who protected Dobie to the best of her ability and tended to baby him.
Frank Faylen (born Charles Francis Ruf; [1] December 8, 1905 [citation needed] – August 2, 1985) was an American film and television actor.Largely a bit player and character actor, he occasionally played more fleshed-out supporting roles during his forty-two year acting career, during which he appeared in some 223 film and television productions, often without credit.
Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis; Frank Faylen as Herbert T. Gillis (32 episodes) Florida Friebus as Winifred "Winnie" Gillis (32 episodes) Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs (34 episodes) Michael J. Pollard as Jerome Krebs (2 episodes)
Hickman with co-stars Bob Denver and Danielle De Metz in a 1960 publicity shot for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. In 1958, Hickman was cast as the lead of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired from 1959 to 1963. At the show's debut, the Dobie character was a teenager in high school, and Hickman was then 25 years old.
This season continues with the misadventures of Dobie Gillis and his best friend Maynard G. Krebs at Central City's S. Peter Pryor Junior College, Dobie continuing to deal with life with his parents, Herbert and Winifred Gillis, and working in (or trying not to work in) his father's grocery store. Two new recurring characters were added: Virgil ...
This is a list of episodes from the third season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; the series' on-screen title was shortened to Dobie Gillis during this season.. This season begins with the enrollment of Dobie Gllis, Maynard G. Krebs, and Zelda Gilroy at Central City's S. Peter Pryor Junior College, after Dobie's and Maynard's discharges from the U.S. Army.
Dwayne Hickman starred as lovestruck Dobie in 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' from 1959 to 1963.
Florida Friebus (October 10, 1909 [note 1] [1] – May 27, 1988) was an American writer and actress of stage, film, and television. Friebus's best-known roles were Winifred "Winnie" Gillis, the sympathetic mother of Dwayne Hickman's character Dobie Gillis on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, [2]: 267 and Mrs. Lillian Bakerman on The Bob Newhart Show.