Tag: Lucille Ball
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RIP PAT CARROLL
1927-2022 Patricia Ann Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was an actress and comedian best known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid as well as having a long acting career on stage and screen. Her first brush with Lucille Ball was through appearing in an episode of the Desilu sitcom “The Ann Sothern Show” titled…
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On ABC TV’s reality show “Claim To Fame” a contestant in a talent show competition paints her childhood idol Lucille Ball.
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RIP LARRY STORCH
1923-2022 Lawrence Samuel Storch was an actor and comedian best known for his comic television roles, including the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on “F Troop” (1965-67). He started acting on television in 1951. Several of his early appearances were at or for Desilu. In February 1955, Larry Storch appeared on the Desilu variety series “Shower of Stars”…
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RIP JAMES CAAN
1940 -2022 James Caan was born in New York City and came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) – a performance which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. This would prove to be his signature role, and one which he reprised in The Godfather Part II…
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RIP ROBERT MORSE
1931-2022 Robert Alan Morse was born in Newton, Mass. He was probably best known as the star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, both the 1961 original Broadway production, for which he won a Tony Award, and the 1967 film adaptation. That same year (1967) Morse appeared with Walter Matthau, Lucille Ball, and…