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Obituary: Bill Daily, 91, known for his roles in sitcoms like I Dream of Jeannie and The Bob Newhart Show, has passed away.
Interesting he employed Bob Newhart as his account in the years before both of them became famous.
A self-described "second banana," Daily spent five seasons (and 131 episodes) on NBC's I Dream of Jeannie, which aired from 1965-70, then worked for six seasons (and 140 episodes) on CBS' The Bob Newhart Show, which ran from 1972-78. The whole time, he battled dyslexia and had to memorize all his lines to keep going._____
After appearances on the TV comedies Bewitched and The Farmer's Daughter, Daily attracted the attention of I Dream of Jeannie creator Sidney Sheldon and landed the role of the goofy Roger Healey, the best friend of another NASA astronaut, Anthony Nelson (Larry Hagman), on the fantasy comedy that starred Barbara Eden as a rather attractive genie.
In 1972, Daily guest-starred as an incompetent city councilman on a second-season installment of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The episode was created by writer-producers Lorenzo Music and David Davis as a showcase for him to star in a pilot.
From 2010 is this study that is guaranteed to make my blood pressure rise to the boiling point.
If there is an able-bodied man in the house, why would housework need to be "outsourced" to begin with? I think we know the answer to that one.
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Late obit: Actor Robert Wolders, 81, died in July. He starred in the television western, Loredo, in its last season, but he is best known for his relationships with Merle Oberon, to whom he was married for a few years in the seventies, Audrey Hepburn, and Shirlee Fonda. All of these women were close friends, and Wolders hung out in the same social circle. None of these women ever had a bad word to say about him. Far from being some kind of golddigger, he was loyal to all of them.
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Wolders was born on Sept. 28, 1936, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The son of an actress, he came to the U.S. and enrolled at the University of Rochester, then studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. He appeared on a 1965 episode of NBC's Flipper and signed a contract with Universal._____
Wolders played the French soldier Fouchet in the 1966 remake of Beau Geste that starred Guy Stockwell and was a military man who is slain in the Rock Hudson-George Peppard drama Tobruk (1967).
Wolders joined NBC's lighthearted Laredo for its second and final season, 1966-67, as Erik Hunter, a rookie Texas Ranger from somewhere in Europe who wore colorful clothing. He once described his character as "a combination of Errol Flynn, 007 and Casanova."
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