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Died three days after live broadcast of the 13th episode. Ripley's friends and associates filled in as presenters for the remainder of the first season. Robert St. John took over as host for the second season. The series' final episode was on October 5, 1950, more than a year-and-a-half following Ripley's death. Don "Creesh" Hornsby
Dixon originally hosted a show on rival station WCPO-TV with Dottie Mack and Wanda Lewis called Paul Dixon's Song Shop. The show consisted of Dixon, Mack, and Lewis pantomiming to popular songs of the day, and also featured in-studio commercials. Fresh from a career in radio news, Dixon quickly endeared himself to countless viewers for years to ...
George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. [1] He was best known as the star of his own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from 1954 to 1959 and on CBS from 1959 to 1960 [1] (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program).
Scott died on July 13, 1960, from a heart attack at the age of 45; in the wake of his death, the producers decided not to replace him and instead canceled the show. [8] Benjamin Stoloff, the series director, died September 8 of the same year. [9]
On 12 October 1984, the cast and crew of the TV series Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity", on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum's character to load blanks into a .44 Magnum handgun.
He died of a heart attack on Cavett's couch while New York Post columnist Pete Hamill was being interviewed. As he was talking to Hamill, he heard a loud snoring sound.
The documentary “Belushi” about the short but legendary career of “SNL” star John Belushi, airs on Showtime this weekend. He’s one of several iconic comedians who passed away too soon ...
Like Reagan, Taylor appeared as a character in some of the shows, including "The Day All Marriages Were Cancelled" (1966), also based on the career of Charles Poston. He portrayed Horace Bell in another 1967 episode, "Major Horace Bell." [7] That same year in the episode "Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party," Taylor played James Kelly of San ...