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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 11, 2017 16:13:33 GMT
Joe Flynn was a familiar face during my youth, appearing in so many Disney movies geared towards kids, playing over and over on TV. He was also well known for appearing on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and McHale's Navy on TV. I just watched The Rescuers on Netflix, a movie it's taken me 40 years to finally see. He was the voice of "Mr. Snoops" so I read his IMDb bio which states he "died of a heart attack in the swimming pool of his Beverly Hills home. Apparently, he had gone into the pool with a cast on his broken leg. His body was found at the pool's bottom, held down by the weight of the cast. He was 49 years old." Is this really what happened to him? Wow, random and weird.  |
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Post by snsurone on Sept 11, 2017 16:42:41 GMT
He also played Joey Barnes' brother-in-law on THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW, and was apparently so good in his role that he upstaged Bishop.
As a result, Bishop had Flynn fired from the show.
I also saw him in an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, where he played a husband who killed cheating wife.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2017 18:27:23 GMT
Interesting piece on Joe FlynnSeemed to be a naturally funny guy.  Million $$$ Duck ^^^^ thanks for stirring the memories |
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Post by neurosturgeon on Sept 11, 2017 20:48:28 GMT
My boss at the time of Flynn death was a friend of his. I can remember being told Flynn drown in his swimming pool, but not the rest of it.
Reminds me of the death of Van Heflin, as noted on IMDb:
The heart attack that killed Heflin happened while he was swimming. He managed to get to the pool's ladder, where he held on until found hours later, unconscious but still alive. He died 17 days later, never having regained consciousness. At his request no funeral was held and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2017 22:31:32 GMT
Reading the biog it sounds like he died of a heart attack and the cast on his leg had nothing to do with his death. Sad in any case.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 12, 2017 1:44:24 GMT
Reading the biog it sounds like he died of a heart attack and the cast on his leg had nothing to do with his death. Sad in any case. Seems like an odd thing to do, go swimming with a leg cast though. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2017 2:10:24 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞I liked this part of the biog He was watching himself in Indestructible Man (1956) when the audience began laughing, even though he was playing a serious role. This made him realize that comedy was his forte. 
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Post by telegonus on Sept 12, 2017 8:23:55 GMT
Another one like that was a Highway Patrol episode with Joe holding a gun on Broderick Crawford. It was a good episode, and Flynn wasn't really bad. By that time memories of the later comedic actor made it nearly impossible for me to take him serious in a dramatic role, much less a threatening one.
Richard Deacon, only a sometime comedic actor prior to playing Fred Rutherford and Mel Cooley, and who also died at a fairly young age, had about him a somewhat comical or ironic quality that made him seem like a "latent comedian" even when playing it straight. Joe Flynn seemed rather a bit more serious in the few non-comedy roles I've seen him in.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 12, 2017 15:00:22 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 I liked this part of the biog He was watching himself in Indestructible Man (1956) when the audience began laughing, even though he was playing a serious role. This made him realize that comedy was his forte. He found his niche, not every actor is so lucky. |
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