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Jack Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. He began his career in 1949 and started television and film work with roles in 12 Angry Men (1957) and Cry Terror!
Randall with Jack Klugman in a publicity photo of The Odd Couple, 1972. Randall returned to television in 1970 as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, opposite Jack Klugman, a role that lasted five years. The names of Felix's children in The Odd Couple were Edna and Leonard, named for Randall's sister and Randall himself.
The Odd Couple (titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple) is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC.The show, which stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television.
In a flashback to Chicago in the Roaring Twenties, Oscar's and Felix's fathers (Klugman and Randall in dual roles) meet, as do the young Oscar (Adam Klugman) and Felix (Sean Manning). Elisha Cook, Jr. and Giorgio Tozzi guest star.
The success of the film was the basis for ABC to produce a popular sitcom series starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman as Felix and Oscar. Almost three decades later, a sequel—The Odd Couple II, in which Lemmon and Matthau reprised their roles—was released, but it was a critical and commercial failure. [4]
Randall and Klugman also reunited in 1993 for a made-for-TV reunion film based upon the series, The Odd Couple Together Again. The movie was initially broadcast on CBS on September 24, 1993. Robert Klane was the writer and director, with a cast that included Barbara Barrie as Felix's wife, Penny Marshall as Myrna and Dick Van Patten .
Tony Randall (Left) as Lamberto Laudisi in Pirandello's comedy "Right You Are," National Actors Theatre (2003) The National Actors Theatre (NAT) was a theatre company founded in 1991 by actor Tony Randall, who served as the company's chairman. Randall stated he had long dreamed of creating such an organization.
The Odd Couple Together Again is a 1993 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively. It is a sequel to the original Odd Couple series in which Felix is once again rooming with Oscar, but only temporarily due to his daughter, Edna, getting married.