Whatever became of...?

[NightTrain]

Barbara Bain (Space: 1999)
Robbie Benson (TV and film actor, late '70s/early '80s)
Debby Boone ("You Light Up My Life")
Jackson Bostwick (Shazam!)
Alicia Bridges ("I Love The Nightlife")
The Captain & Tennille
Captain Kool & The Kongs (Rock "band" on Saturday-morning TV, 1970s)
Mindy Cohn (Facts of Life)
Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy)
Richard Dimitri (When Things Were Rotten, 1984 movie "Johnny Dangerously")
Carol "Doctor's Orders" Douglas
Carl "Kung Fu Fighting" Douglas
Jane Dulo (Sha Na Na)
Sheena Easton (Early '80s pop star, "Morning Train," etc.)
Victor French (Little House on the Prairie, Carter Country)
Max Gail (Barney Miller)
Shelley Hack (Charlie's Angels)
Beth Howland (Alice)
Polly Holliday (Alice, Flo)
The Hudson Brothers (Ostensible singers and comedians)
France Joli (Teen-aged disco singer)
Stacy Lattisaw (Teen-aged R&B singer, early '80s)
Randy Mantooth (Emergency!)
Phillip and Nancy McKeon (Alice, Facts of Life)
George and Gwen McCrae ("Rock Your Baby," "Rockin' Chair")
Erin Moran (Happy Days)
Jimmy Osmond
JoAnn Pflug (TV actress)
Rodney Allen Rippy (TV child star)
Helen Reddy
Mason Reese (TV child star)
Nispey Russell ('50s-era comedian, '70s game-show regular)
David Soul (Starsky & Hutch)
Rick Springfield (General Hospital, string of bad '80s pop hits)
Berlinda Tolbert (The Jeffersons)
Fred Travelena ('70s-era comedian)
Vincent Van Patten (Apple's Way)
Lyle Waggoner (Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman)
Jimmie Walker (Good Times)
Jack Wild (H.R. Puf'n'stuf)
Anson Williams (Happy Days)

Just curious....

[OneBlueSky]

1. last I heard, Robbie Benson was teaching film . . .

at some university or other, I think in North Carolina or thereabouts . . .

Anson Williams is a very successful director, I hear . . .

[no_hypocrisy]

20. Married to Carla DeVito (sp?) female lead for Meatloaf. Voice of The

Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and producing.

[soleft]

37. They're currently in a show together, I think it's on Broadway

[waylon]

2. They are all over at my house, where the hell are you?

and the party is ragin!!!!

[mykpart]

3. David Soul was in "A Few Good Men"

with Jack Nicholson. He was the guy who killed himself so he wouldn't have to testify.

I think Robbie Benson was the voice of Aladdin in the Disney film.

Polly Holliday played Jill's mother on "Home Improvement."

I think Nipsy Russell is dead.

That's all I know about.

[ironflange]

5. No, Robby Benson was The Beast

I think :)

Most of the rest are probably doing small-town dinner theatre.

[Syrinx]

7. I may be wrong, but I think Nipsey is still alive

I think I saw him do a cameo on Letterman not terribly long ago. But I'm not certain.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

23. That was J.T. Walsh

who played Lt. Col. Markinson -- Walsh himself died in 1998.

[southpaw]

27. That was the late J.T. Walsh

Not David Soul... Sorry

[NicoleM]

29. nevermind

.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. David Soul turned up as a guest star

in "Dalziel and Pascoe" (British cop show - you might get it on A&E?) a few weeks ago.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

43. Robbie was the beast...

Scott something or other, he played DJ's boyfriend on Full House, did Aladdin.
Duckie

[Ysabel]

4. i saw flo in a movie...

the other day ( a bad one - starring that superman - from the television show - dude - i never liked him or his co-star that played lois lane either - i don't like her in commercials either - i think they must be buddy buddy with some producers - especially him - he has been in a whole slew of bad movies - but all she gets is bad commercials) - anyway he was a cop who thought he wanted to be a priest or something like that - he was psychologically torn betwween either killing people if he had to - or saving them - ahem - sure - sure - and she was some lady who opened a door when he came around snooping and asking questions - even though he'd gotten suspended for killing some kid - you know the story - and wasn't really supposed to be snooping - he even saved some old bum in the end who was living the high life on a boat - not sure what happened to the guy - most likely hauled off to some institution - i guess flo maybe was the only thing that made the movie worth while - if one likes her - i like her - oh yeah - and of course he decides - in the end that - yeah - he can kill some kids again if need be...

h.r. puffinstuff - i saw him somewhere recently - and he looked the pretty much the same - i thought that was weird...

edit - typo...

[Ysabel]

14. replying to self...

darn - i left out something - can't edit anymore though - the shooting was by mistake - so in the end he'd decided he could shoot by mistake again...

[Syrinx]

6. Max Gail guested on the Drew Carey show a few years ago

As a gay man. I can't remember who played his partner, but it was a similary kind of person.

One of the Hudson brothers fathered Kate Hudson.

Nancy McKeon does really bad tv-movies for Lifetime.

Beth Howland married some semi-famous guy, but I don't remember who.

Victor French died.

And I don't know about the others.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

44. Nancy McKeon is on a cop drama on Lifetime.

[Wapsie B]

8. Polly Holliday

is on a daytime soap. Don't remember which one. So is David Canary, who played Candy on Bonanza.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. HudsonBrothers link...

Bill and Brett did some good things. Mark... didnt fare as well. I'm going back in.



http://www.sunshineday.com/neugast/2nd%20Tier%20Pages/hudson%20brothers.html

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Mark married Goldie Hawn in the 70's, had children Kate and Oliver, and

was divorced before the end of the decade. Now married to Cindy Williams (unless you've heard otherwise).

[NicoleM]

30. Oliver Hudson

is a very, very attractive young man.

[BuelahWitch]

33. No, that was Bill Hudson who married Hawn and Williams n/t

[YellowRubberDuckie]

45. I do know that whatever Hudson Goldie did marry was dumb...

Apparently Kate and Oliver think of Kurt Russell as more of a dad than their own dad. Kurt gave Kate away at her wedding. So Sad. At least, though, they had someone.
Duckie

[Insider]

10. berlinda tolbert: on ER tonight, in fact

playing a pregnant grandmother.

and nipsey russell is 80 years old. i can guess what he's doing: sleeping.

[Syrinx]

12. was she Lionel's wife?

Damn, time flies away...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. Lyle Waggoner...

Did you know:

"Mr. Waggoner was the 'first' "Playgirl" centerfold in June, 1973."

..."He wondered if they would rent an even bigger trailer from him. He asked, they said yes, and so began his business, STAR WAGGONS INC. His company now provides more than 400 trailers to movie companies and studios."

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. JoAnn Pflug...

http://www.joannpflug.com/bio.html

Ok, I'm done.

:beer:

[VOX]

55. She runs seminars on "Business and Personal Protocol With Humor"

Go figure!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Debbie Boone is still singing that fucking song at any LA fundraiser

that'll have her...it is a bit campy so the gay community still wants to hear it.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. All this, and no Noel Neill?

Harrumph! No Jack Larson, either! I'm disappointed!

[FDRrocks]

17. The Turtles!

So happy together....

[Laughing Mirror]

18. Stacy Lattisaw got out of the business early to raise her family

I think. She seems to be very family oriented. I remember hearing that she got into the business in the first place (at what, 12 years old?) in order to help out her family, her brother, another potential bread earner, was serving time in prison at the time.

George and Gwen McRae busted up a long time ago. George apparently ran off with all their money, left the country. I believe he settled in the Netherlands, if I remember correctly, leaving Gwen to try to keep her career going and raise the family. Her career wasn't going anywhere and so she went to nursing school. The last I heard she was either in New York or Florida, working as a nurse, still raising the family by herself, without the help of deadbeat George.

France Joli, well she's not that old. She's only just 40, I think. She's probably still around, still performing whenever she can find a gig (such as a gay circuit party event) or a producer (such as Tony Green) to record her. I have a very good dance single of hers from about five years ago called Breakaway, but I'm not up on anything more recent that she's done. Where are you France Joli?

[Awsi Dooger]

19. For a decade I saw Jimmie "DY-NO-MITE!" Walker in Las Vegas sportsbooks

Strangely, not in the last year or so. Believe it or not, he loves to bet hockey, especially the "Grand Salami" (total combined goals in that day's hockey games).

Jimmie Walker works out regularly in sporting clubs and is anything but the frail pushover of his Good Times days. He loves the UNLV Rebel basketball team and would volunteer to play in the tiny basketball band during the Tarkanian heyday in the late '80s-early '90s.

I would see Jimmie several times per week -- usually in the Stardust -- often sitting in the sportsbook at night, sweating out his bets next to the sportsbook regulars. He was always personable and very frequently asked me the score of a hockey game if I ran into him while exiting a casino.

A few years ago the Stardust sportsbook brass invited Jimmie into their annual football handicapping contest, picking 7 games vs. the pointspread on Friday night on radio station KDWN 720, one-on-one against another handicapper. Jimmie Walker was hysterical, picking the most obscure games for bizarre reasons. His specialty was picking CFL games, which virtually no one pays any attention to. One year later, the Stardust barred the handicappers from selecting CFL games!

[RebelOne]

22. I see Nancy McKeon a lot on LMN and Lifetime channels.

[dolo amber]

24. Just for future reference...

This is very helpful for determining whether some famous person has, in fact, shuffled off this mortal coil. ;)

Didn't Rick Springfield get arrested a couple years ago for spousal abuse? Or did I hallucinate that...? :shrug:

[nuxvomica]

25. I saw Vince Van Patten co-hosting a poker TV show recently

Maybe a few months ago.

[WillParkinson]

39. He was also in Milwaukee last week...

But I'm not sure what he was doing here.

[Butterflies]

26. A few months ago I saw Jimmie Walker

on a celebrity dating show on "E" (I think.) He was polite to the women, he was still kind of funny, but the whole idea of the show was a little degrading. It's like those washed-up celebrities living in a house together ("The Surreal Life") because they miss having cameras on them.

Vincent Van Patten married a soap opera actress last year and they had a baby. The actress is on "The Young and the Restless" and plays Ashley (I happen to watch that soap when I can.) I don't know what he's doing career-wise.

[latebloomer]

28. I saw Jimmie Walker at "Bananas" comedy club last month!

He was pretty funny, though not hilarious, did some vaguely Bush-bashing jokes, though not biting enough for me. Mostly commentary on current media stars-- eh.

He was quite middle-aged, had gained a fair amount of weight.

Not once did he call out "Dy-no-mite!!" Guess he got thoroughly sick of that.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

31. Pam Dawber

She starred in "My Sister Sam" during the 1980s and subsequently got married to some guy whose name presently escapes me. She has appeared in several telemovies with stars such as Veronica Hamel, Lindsay Wagner and so on

[Flaxbee]

32. I think she married Mark Harmon...

Pam Dawber did, that is.

[gauguin57]

34. Jack Wild ...

Jack "Puf'n'stuf" Wild was in the Kevin Costner vehicle "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." I saw him interviewed around that time; he had gone through years of alcoholism, and looked pretty rung out. What a shame; I had such a crush on him as a kid. TV Land is promoting a Pufnstuf DVD collection, with an interview with Jack Wild.

Mindy Cohn was in some sort of Facts of Life reunion a few years back.

I saw Helen Reddy in concert a few years back (she sang standards and a few of her hits). Very enjoyable concert, actually. I also saw her on (cringe!) Dick Van Dyke's "Diagnosis, Murder" as a singer developing Alzheimer's (don't hurt me! I was watching it with my elderly mom!).

Jimmy Osmond became a businessman; ran the business affairs of all singing Osmonds (except Donny and Marie). Sings with the Osmond country quartet, I believe ... sometimes filling in for Alan Osmond, who has M.S. (I think it's Alan).

I think Erin Moran became a born-again Christian and abandoned showbiz.

I think Beth ("Alice") Howland is still married to Charles Kimbrough, who played Jim Dial on "Murphy Brown." They were in the original Broadway cast of "Company" together.

Rick Springfield was on "Behind the Music." And he was charged with spousal assault a few years ago. Still married to her. Always creeped me out that, when he was 25, he dated a 15-year-old Linda Blair. Ew. Speaking of Blair, she's an outspoken vegan and animal rights activist ... appears at local fundraisers for animal-rescue/animal-rights organizations.

David Soul's been married about five times. Didn't he assault one of those wives along the way? Of course, he and both Paul Michael Glaser are making cameos in the new Wilson/Stiller "Starsky and Hutch" movie. Speaking of Glaser ... did you spot him as Diane Keaton's editor/ex-husband in "Something's Gotta Give"?

Randolph Mantooth used to appear in sketches on John Henson's "Talk Soup" on E! network a few years ago.

And I, too, would LOVE to know what became of Rodney Allen Rippey!

[arwalden]

35. Did You Know The Vicki Sue Robinson Died?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=10737

[sistersofmercy]

36. Geez, Night Train...

You know as much as I thought I knew I about music...well, crap, you just blow me out of the water. Even your polls I go on to, whether 50's, 60's etc, half the time I'm sitting here at the keyboard totally clueless! You the man! :toast:

[WillParkinson]

40. SHAZAM!

Solomon
Hercules
Atlas
Zues
Achilles
Mercury

You can find out more about Bostwick here: http://www.jacksonbostwick.com/

[NightTrain]

41. Is there any washed-up showbiz personality who DOESN'T have a webpage?

By the way, I actually had that limited-edition SHAZAM! comic when I was a kid.

[aldian159]

42. Whatever happened to mike keaton?

That's the question, everybody.

[DoctorBombay]

46. Rick Springfield....

..is playing the flippin' House of Blues on Sunset Blvd. this weekend! He's still around!

[displacedtexan]

47. Barbara Bain died.

She had been married to Martin landau, who died recently (not long after playing abela Lugosi). They were divorced.

[kentdoa]

48. Barbara Bain and Martin Landau

Subject: Barbara Bain and Martin Landau
Message:
Barbara Bain and Martin Landau are both still among the living. Just thought you might want to know.

Kent
Webmaster - Dead or Alive?
(the site linked earlier by Dolo Amber)

[Spirochete]

49. Victor French is deceased

David Soul appears in the Starsky and Hutch movie.

[mitchum]

50. Robbie Benson was an artist in residence at my university...

in the late 80s. No shit. Pathetic.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

51. He directed several episodes of ELLEN

[WillParkinson]

52. Mindy Cohn is going to be on a new WB (not WillBowden) show...

"The Help" or something like that. She plays a maid.

[alwynsw]

53. Mantooth

Part of his time is spent going around the country educating, recruiting, and fundraising for EMS. Many rural areas rely upon private donations for a goodly share of their budgets. Also, nearly all of the EMT's in those areas are volunteers. The county I live in is in that boat.

He was here (Kentucky) recently to visit several towns and smaller cities to raise awareness of both the services offered by and the needs of these organizations.

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

54. I think Jimmy Osmond is in Branson...

along with the Osmond brothers. They play at the Andy Williams Moonriver Theatre sometimes.