Sheldon Leonard, the guy was always giving Jack Benny tips on the horses, died. He bacame a wealthy TV producer.
Jim Stokes
Starter of this subject: Don Neagle
Last post in this subject: 12/8/2000
Messages in this subject: 5
| Don Neagle | 12/8/2000 5 replies |
| Are any of the performers who appeared on the Jack Benny radio program still alive? I assume all the major performers are now deceased, but is anyone still living who played minor roles on an occasional basis? |
| Jim Stokes | 12/8/2000 4 replies |
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I am not sure. But I think that Elliot Lewis might still be with us. He played Remley, the drunken member of Phil Harris's band. Elliot Lewis had quite a distinguished career. He was a radio producer for "Suspense." If you want see what he looks like as an actor, then go rent the Ma & Pa Kettle movie where the win a vacation in New York. You'll have to dig out the title yourself. I don't recall it. Anyway, Elliot Lewis plays a mobster, and so does Jim Backus, who later was the millionaire on Gilligan's Island and who was the voice of Mr. Magoo in the cartoons. That movie has some wonderful shots of New York in the late 40's!
Sheldon Leonard, the guy was always giving Jack Benny tips on the horses, died. He bacame a wealthy TV producer.
Jim Stokes |
| Don Stoffel | 12/8/2000 3 replies |
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Mary Livingstone (real name Sadie Marks Kubelski), Don Wilson, Mel Blanc have all left us, unfortunately. Not sure about Frank Nelson ("Yeeeessssss ?"), Dennis Day, Sara Berner (Gladys Zsybisco). I feel certain that Eddie "Rochester" Anderson has gone on to his reward. Verna Felton (Dennis' mother) is also departed, I am sure. Phil Harris died about a year or so ago.
Sheldon Leonard (Hey, Bud ---- c'mere.) was the producer of the old Danny Thomas "Make Room For Daddy" show. |
| Ted Hering | 12/11/2000 2 replies |
| Frank Nelson died in the 1980s, I believe. Dennis Day has been gone even longer than that. Wasn't Iris Adrian a semi-regular on the show? She died during the Northridge earthquake. www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base) would probably give you more details on these and others. |
| Scott T | 12/12/2000 1 replies |
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I think Elliot Lewis died in the early 90's. He did alot for radio. Producer,director,writer, and actor on Suspense. Producer and director of Crime Classics, On Stage, and Broadway is my Beat.
He was a radio Genius!! |
| Walt | 2/27/2001 0 replies |
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Unfortunately, everyone I can think of have left us. There are a couple writers but no characters come to mind. Of the people mentioned, as well as a few others I thought of, here's a list of the years of their parting:
Frank Nelson -- 1986 Elliot Lewis -- 1990 Bea Benaderet-- 1968 Sara Bernier -- 1969 Frank Nelson -- 1986 Dennis Day -- 1988 Verna Felton -- 1966 Rochester -- 1977 Bob Crosby -- 1993 Sheldon Leonard -- past couple years Thanks to Jay Hickerson's Necrology of Radio Personalities.
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