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Howard Weston "Ted" Bessell Jr. (March 20, 1935 – October 6, 1996) was an American television actor and director widely known for his role as Donald Hollinger, the boyfriend and eventual fiancé of Marlo Thomas's character in the TV series That Girl (1966–1971).
That Girl is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from September 8, 1966, to March 19, 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring (but only sporadically employed) actress who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York , to try to make it big in New York City.
Aspiring actress Ann Marie is working at a newsstand in an office building, where she meets Donald Hollinger (Ted Bessell), a writer for Newsview magazine.Ann is cast in a television commercial filming in the lobby of the office building, but an encounter with the chivalrous Donald may end her job.
"It was the first, and the first is hopefully a launching pad — and it was," Thomas says, referring to the shows that came after That Girl. "There was never a show about a 21-year-old woman ...
The Detroit native rose to fame in the hit ABC sitcom "That Girl," in which she played Broadway dreamer Ann Marie. At the time, she was only the second woman ever to produce her own series! (The ...
That Girl has since become popular in syndication. Clairol was our sponsor and they wanted to end the show with a wedding. I said, "I just can't do that to these women and girls who followed Ann Marie's adventure. I can't now say that the only happy ending is a wedding, because I don't believe it." There was a big ruckus about it, but I wouldn ...
Cisar appeared in a 1965 episode of The Cara Williams Show with Cara Williams and portrayed character Donald Hollinger's father in That Girl, the Marlo Thomas sitcom which aired on ABC, and Cyrus Tankersley on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel Mayberry, R.F.D.
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