Goodbye Professor
January 16th, 2014, 01:05 PM
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Goodbye Professor
No, not me.
He was a hero to me.
The actor who played the Professor in "Gilligan's Island" has died ... TMZ has learned.
Russell Johnson, who played Professor Roy Hinkley, died of natural causes at his home in Washington.
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann, just posted on Facebook, "My 2 favorite people are now gone. The professor past (sic) away this morning. My heart is broken."
The other person who died is Bob Denver, who played Gilligan. He died in 2005.
Johnson was on the show from 1964 to 1967. Johnson was not in the original opening of the show. He and Mary Ann were referred to as "The rest." But Denver insisted that they be included and that happened later.
Wells went on: "Russell was a true gentleman, a good father, a great friend, and 'the rest.'"
Johnson was married -- this was his third wife. He passed away in hospice, surrounded by his wife and 2 kids.
Johnson was 89.
The only surviving members of the original cast are Mary Ann and Ginger, played by Tina Louise.
Russell Johnson, who played Professor Roy Hinkley, died of natural causes at his home in Washington.
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann, just posted on Facebook, "My 2 favorite people are now gone. The professor past (sic) away this morning. My heart is broken."
The other person who died is Bob Denver, who played Gilligan. He died in 2005.
Johnson was on the show from 1964 to 1967. Johnson was not in the original opening of the show. He and Mary Ann were referred to as "The rest." But Denver insisted that they be included and that happened later.
Wells went on: "Russell was a true gentleman, a good father, a great friend, and 'the rest.'"
Johnson was married -- this was his third wife. He passed away in hospice, surrounded by his wife and 2 kids.
Johnson was 89.
The only surviving members of the original cast are Mary Ann and Ginger, played by Tina Louise.
He was a hero to me.
January 16th, 2014, 01:44 PM
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They all had full character backgrounds so they could act the part. No computer generated special effects to distract audiences back then ... entertaining was up to the actors.
January 16th, 2014, 01:53 PM
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Great cast great show, I was young during the running's but watched many episodes. They certainly didn't make money at it either.
Still play the oldies on deja view up here. Nothing good on the tube anymore just Nascar and UFC. and deja view of course. RIP professor !!!
Still play the oldies on deja view up here. Nothing good on the tube anymore just Nascar and UFC. and deja view of course. RIP professor !!!
January 16th, 2014, 02:21 PM
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I just caught the news on MSN.com! I watch it on ME tv on cable on the weeknights. I grew up watching the re-runs! Always loved the show, even my step-daughter (11) sits right next to me and watches it with me
I liked all the cast, but as most gents would, always had a buring desire for Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) stranded my _ss
RIP Mr. Johnson!
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I liked all the cast, but as most gents would, always had a buring desire for Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) stranded my _ss
RIP Mr. Johnson!
Pat
January 16th, 2014, 02:42 PM
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[QUOTE=1970cs;641924] always had a buring desire for Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) stranded my _ss
LoL...... I had that burning going on with Wonder-Woman and her rope!!! I would have got a good slap maybe a swift kick in the ball$ if she roped me in to tell her the truth bout what I wanted to do with her.
LoL...... I had that burning going on with Wonder-Woman and her rope!!! I would have got a good slap maybe a swift kick in the ball$ if she roped me in to tell her the truth bout what I wanted to do with her.
January 16th, 2014, 04:16 PM
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Another 1 gone.
On a side note, so did Dave Madden.
The actor who played long-suffering band manager Ruben Kinkaid on the 1970s sitcom the Partridge Family, reportedly died Thursday after a long illness.
On a side note, so did Dave Madden.
The actor who played long-suffering band manager Ruben Kinkaid on the 1970s sitcom the Partridge Family, reportedly died Thursday after a long illness.
January 16th, 2014, 04:18 PM
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The only two surviving cast members are now Ginger (Tina Louise, age 79, who spent all of her post-Gilligan career trying to run away from the role), and Mary Ann (now 75, who has always embraced her role on Gilligan).
January 16th, 2014, 05:28 PM
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Names
Ginger Grant
Thurston Howell III
Lovey Howell
Prof. Roy Hinckley
Skipper Jonas Grumby
Gilligan
January 16th, 2014, 05:34 PM
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Wow, happened to be laying on the couch now with TV on and laptop on my chest. Gilligan's Island is on and I read about the professor. What a coincidence... I know I am getting old now cause I am thinking of doin Mrs Howell!
January 16th, 2014, 06:47 PM
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You're killin me!! I was watching the show the other day and I too was thinking about Mrs. Howell!! Boy that picture of Mary Ann is hot...
January 16th, 2014, 07:50 PM
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Yeah, it's kind of scary watching one of these shows for the first time in a number of years and realizing that the "old lady" characters weren't actually that old, and weren't bad looking. Saw Colonel Bellows's wife a few months ago - VaVaVaVoom!
I bet my 90 year old first grade teacher was probably younger than I am now, too.
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I bet my 90 year old first grade teacher was probably younger than I am now, too.
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January 16th, 2014, 08:23 PM
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At least that's what it says here, but I had heard this earlier from other sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilliga...%27s_Island%29
As also mentioned in the above entry, Bob Denver himself said that he thought the character's name might actually have been "Gil Egan," and "Gilligan" is what you get when you say those quickly.
But I like ***** Gilligan better as that was the name the creators apparently originally had in mind, even though it was never used on the air. It's Gilligan "canon."
January 16th, 2014, 08:31 PM
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Kinda cool how thinking of these shows...and associated fond memories come back so vividly, I recall watching Gilligans island when I would come home from school with my {at that time| new puppy. Good vibrations
January 17th, 2014, 07:53 AM
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January 18th, 2014, 05:25 AM
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Keep in mind that none of us are getting any younger, and the older we get, the more friends, acquaintances, and people we knew on television are all passing away at a faster rate. One day each of us will be one of those people, so be kind to your fellow man, so you to will be fondly remembered.
January 18th, 2014, 06:17 AM
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Keep in mind that none of us are getting any younger, and the older we get, the more friends, acquaintances, and people we knew on television are all passing away at a faster rate. One day each of us will be one of those people, so be kind to your fellow man, so you to will be fondly remembered.
X2 on that note. Be kind and find humor in our daily lifestyles, the world has become so serious in many ways. Live, love and laugh is the best way of life.
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January 18th, 2014, 01:24 PM
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I could of sworn Lovey and Thurston were still alive ..in fact they lived below me in the Condominium that I just moved out of. In fact..They were the reason I moved. Did I mention Mrs Kravetz
January 18th, 2014, 06:51 PM
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Not only a great actor but an American hero..he rec'd the purple heart and flew 24 missions in a B24. Amazed that he made it. Just google his name and you will find the info.
I think the thing I miss most about all these actors we are loosing is, they were average joes, no drama, no stupid stories and if you met them on the street they would stop and talk. I met Members of F troop at a diner in Califonia as a young kid and they were so nice. I met James Gardner while he was just hanging out on the beach and he was just the nicest guy you could ever meet. And you just would not believe how many of our childhood idols were war heroes...Mr Rodgers, Kaptain Kangaroo, the Professor, the skipper and many more. It's not that we are just getting old we are loosing another part of the greatest generation.
I had a garbage collector who never forgot to say hi to me or give me a football he found or a tire for my bike. When I got into HS I read a book called "Pacific War Diary".
A great account of life on a cruiser in WW2 and the many Sea battles. Well i found out my garbage man wrote the book! JAMES FAHEY. And ALL the money he made he gave to the Boys Club. He didn't take a dime and spent the rest of his life being a proud American collecting trash......Thats the type of person we are loosing today, thats why we seem so emotionaly touched by the loss of the professor and Mr Kinkaid, average joes like us...class, style, a heart and Character... They are becoming rare like the dodo
I think the thing I miss most about all these actors we are loosing is, they were average joes, no drama, no stupid stories and if you met them on the street they would stop and talk. I met Members of F troop at a diner in Califonia as a young kid and they were so nice. I met James Gardner while he was just hanging out on the beach and he was just the nicest guy you could ever meet. And you just would not believe how many of our childhood idols were war heroes...Mr Rodgers, Kaptain Kangaroo, the Professor, the skipper and many more. It's not that we are just getting old we are loosing another part of the greatest generation.
I had a garbage collector who never forgot to say hi to me or give me a football he found or a tire for my bike. When I got into HS I read a book called "Pacific War Diary".
A great account of life on a cruiser in WW2 and the many Sea battles. Well i found out my garbage man wrote the book! JAMES FAHEY. And ALL the money he made he gave to the Boys Club. He didn't take a dime and spent the rest of his life being a proud American collecting trash......Thats the type of person we are loosing today, thats why we seem so emotionaly touched by the loss of the professor and Mr Kinkaid, average joes like us...class, style, a heart and Character... They are becoming rare like the dodo
January 18th, 2014, 08:13 PM
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NavVet, you are so right. I won't start running on here (and, like all of us, I could), but I think you really hit it.
These folks didn't think of themselves as being special, or heroes, or anything of the sort.
As far as they were concerned, they did what they had to, just like everyone else they knew, and there was nothing unusual about that. These were the adults we grew up with, and were raised to look up to, and hoped to be able to measure up to.
Neither of my grandfathers was in the military - one was in the merchant marine, though I don't know anything about where he sailed. The other was 4F (hernia), and spent the days of the war in the shipyard, sloshing ankle-deep in carbon-tet in the engine rooms of ships he was refitting, and the nights in the local bars, settling "discussions" about why he wasn't in uniform.
My father in law was a SSGT running a mobile tank repair unit. He used to drive up to the front, pick up damaged tanks, fix them, and bring them back to the front. My wife's mom was a nurse in the army (1LT), and her sister was also a nurse (CPT), who went into Hiroshima after we dropped the bomb, to care for the children burned in the bombing. She has never talked about it, to my knowledge.
These actors were the same - just regular people doing their part, like everybody else.
Others we could include, off the top of my head, are James Doohan (LtCdr Montgomery Scott on Star Trek), who lost a finger in the D-Day invasion, and hid it from the cameras throughout his acting career, and Ed McMahon, who was a Marine flight instructor during the War, flew 85 combat missions as an artillery spotter in the Korean War, earned six Air Medals, and retired from the reserves as a colonel in 1966.
I feel like I'm getting old.
Except the ones who are back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and who may be looking for work, or having some trouble waking up in the middle of the night too much, or getting nervous when they see a garbage bag on the side of the highway...
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These folks didn't think of themselves as being special, or heroes, or anything of the sort.
As far as they were concerned, they did what they had to, just like everyone else they knew, and there was nothing unusual about that. These were the adults we grew up with, and were raised to look up to, and hoped to be able to measure up to.
Neither of my grandfathers was in the military - one was in the merchant marine, though I don't know anything about where he sailed. The other was 4F (hernia), and spent the days of the war in the shipyard, sloshing ankle-deep in carbon-tet in the engine rooms of ships he was refitting, and the nights in the local bars, settling "discussions" about why he wasn't in uniform.
My father in law was a SSGT running a mobile tank repair unit. He used to drive up to the front, pick up damaged tanks, fix them, and bring them back to the front. My wife's mom was a nurse in the army (1LT), and her sister was also a nurse (CPT), who went into Hiroshima after we dropped the bomb, to care for the children burned in the bombing. She has never talked about it, to my knowledge.
These actors were the same - just regular people doing their part, like everybody else.
Others we could include, off the top of my head, are James Doohan (LtCdr Montgomery Scott on Star Trek), who lost a finger in the D-Day invasion, and hid it from the cameras throughout his acting career, and Ed McMahon, who was a Marine flight instructor during the War, flew 85 combat missions as an artillery spotter in the Korean War, earned six Air Medals, and retired from the reserves as a colonel in 1966.
I feel like I'm getting old.
- Eric
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January 19th, 2014, 06:53 AM
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One important point. I do look up to our men and woman who have served in the Gulf wars. They are coming home...no complaints, and trying hard to just be regular Joes.
January 19th, 2014, 06:57 AM
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Never doubted that you or Eric did.
I just wanted to be sure to mention them.
The guys who were downrange feel as weird coming back to "the world" as they guys from Vietnam did.
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I just wanted to be sure to mention them.
The guys who were downrange feel as weird coming back to "the world" as they guys from Vietnam did.
- Eric
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