What can I say.
What can I say.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
They usually come in threes.
Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, and Robert Conrad
RIP. Off the top of my head, Orson Bean was better known as a game show regular.
Didn't realize he had an acting career of sorts ( a long one at that ).
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
RIP. I loved The Wild Wild West.
I remember Conrad mostly for Wild Wild West and Bean for game/panel shows. Rest in peace.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Orson Bean voiced Bilbo Baggins in a cartoon version of The Hobbit, iirc. That should be worth some prog cred.
I remember Conrad from his battery commercials and Bean from the Match Game. RIP
"It's such a fine line between stupid and... clever" -- David St. Hubbins & Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
Orson Bean was in a twilight zone episode called "Mr Bevis".
My favorite of Mr. Conrad's shows was Black Sheep Squadron. In the mid 80s, I was stationed just south of Fresno at a Naval Air Station. When the real life "Pappy" Boyington died, it received wall to wall coverage on Fresno TV stations. During that time, Black Sheep Squadron was still in syndicated reruns.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Squid or jarhead?Originally Posted by progmatist
What makes Orson Bean's death a bit sadder is that he was in relatively good health - he was killed when he was hit by a car while crossing the street. He was 91.
In looking at Robert Conrad's imdb, I had no idea he played the Chief in 1 of my all-time favorite movies, the underrated 80's Comedy "Moving Violations."
I am much more familiar with Conrad's work than Bean. The Wild Wild West was proto-steampunk, way before steampunk was a thing. I loved that show as a kid. The villains were so ridiculous and fantastic. Black Sheep was fun but as Pappy once pointed out, utter fiction. Conrad's hyper competitiveness on Battles of the Network T&A was legendary. Bean was indeed the voice of Bilbo in an animated version of the Hobbit. It's sad that his life ended the way it did.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Obviously his reaction time was compromised.
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One of my favorite films/series EVER. 'Centennial' and Conrad played a fine role as Pasquinel a French Canadian trapper. Film is based on a James Michener book of the same name. Centennial explores the East to West movement and settling/building of this USA.
Carry On
Chris Buckley
Certainly. When I heard he'd died I figured.it would have been by natural causes due to his age.
For the record, the name of Robert Conrad's mid 70's show was Baa Baa Black Sheep. After that, he did a show I don't remember at all called The Duke, which only ran for one season, then followed that with another short lived show, which I do remember, A Man Called Sloan. I also remember his Eveready TV commercials, where he'd put the battery on his shoulder and dare the viewer to knock it off. He was also the captain of the NBC team on the first few Battle Of The Network Stars shows (and on a later one, he was a commentator, where he said that Tug Of War was the most physically grueling thing he ever did on camera).
I remember re-runs of Wild Wild West in the early and mid 80's, we watched it regularly in our house, though I think I was too young at the time to understand the whole "steampunk" aspect. There was also a reunion movie done around that time, had to have been like 79 or 80, as I recall that Ross Martin passed away in something like 80 or 81. I remember Martin's obituary running in Starlog.
I recall Orson from his star turn in Freebie And The Bean, although he was better known for an off-camera role on Mork & Mindy.
Good observation. It was a pretty cool show.
Uh, not necessarily. He was hit by one car, knocked to the ground and got hit by another, according to the reports I saw.
That's a funny movie. James Caan and Alan Arkin.
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Right. It was retitled "Black Sheep Squadron" for syndicated reruns, for some reason.
I never liked saying Baa Baa Blacksheep anyway.
I know, it makes you sound like some sort of whiffenpoof.
O Bean was in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman as a series regular. My daughter was totally into it. Quinn not Bean. Ewww!
I was a squid.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Baa Baa Blacksheep reminds me of that M.A.S.H. episode:
Igor: Yes
Maj. Burns: Yes what?!?
Igor: Yes sir
Maj. Burns: Yes sir what?!?
Igor: Yes sir.......yes sir.........three bags full?
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
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