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Post by teleadm on Jul 18, 2020 15:36:07 GMT
 This pleasant looking British man produced such TV series as Monty Pythons Flying Circus, The Goodies, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life and Mr Bean, and he sadly passes away the summer of 2011. His name was John Howard Davis, and it the same person who as a boy actor thrilled us in David Lean's Oliver Twist 1948 as Oliver Twist and as Tom Brown in Tom Brown's Schooldays 1951. Plus the dark Christmas movie The Rocking Horse Winner 1949.  |
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 18, 2020 16:09:48 GMT
Deanna DurbinExcerpt from the IMDb biog: "When she was at the top of her career as Hollywood's leading actress and singer, she turned her back on that world for a life of seclusion. Her first two marriages had failed, and before she married her third husband, director Charles David, she set one condition: he had to promise that she could have what she yearned for - "the life of nobody". She lives in the French village of Neauphlé-le-Château, and for over 35 years has resisted every approach from film companies. Her husband has told journalists that "Mario Lanza pleaded with her for years to make a film with him. But she will never go back to that life." She granted only one interview since 1949 to film historian David Shipman in 1983." She died in 2013. According to the film That's Entertainment, MGM had a choice of signing one of two promising starlets: Judy Garland or Deanna Durbin. They went with Garland, whom they proceeded to drive insane with overwork, crash dieting, drug abuse, a forced abortion, and possibly sexual abuse by studio heads (encourged by an evil stage mother). Garland burned out and died in her forties. Durbin had a modest career with another studio, retired to France, and survived into her 90s. By getting dumped by MGM, she apparently dodged a bullet. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2020 16:16:35 GMT
marianne48 Re: Garland comments Garland does not fit in this thread because her story is well known and not a "whatever became of ..." A reminder: No murder victims please or others with sad endings.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 18, 2020 22:54:56 GMT
I was just watching John Carpenter's Christine (1983) and noticed that both leads Keith Gordon and John Stockwell have since quit acting and became directors.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 18, 2020 23:02:20 GMT
A few more: David Peel Madeleine Stowe Vincent Cassel - is he still acting? Madeleine Stowe has a new TV series Soundtrack
Vincent Cassel is still acting he was in Underwater and the latest season of Westworld.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2020 23:05:48 GMT
Dwayne Hickman worked behind the scenes from the 1970s on as a publicist, a Las Vegas entertainment director and, most successfully, as a programming executive for CBS. Dwayne has returned to acting on occasion in "Dobie" retrospectives and other light comedy efforts. He is also a critically acclaimed artist, painting in oils. Hickman's use of vibrant colors and exquisite detail in his popular house and landscape series has become his trademark. His artwork has been featured on Good Morning America and national publications including USA Today. Hickman and his wife and business partner, Joan Roberts, publish his artwork, which is represented in galleries across the country and in many private and corporate collections.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 19, 2020 0:16:27 GMT
Daryl Hickman At one time, he was deemed one of Hollywood's most talented child stars of World War II and post-war film. In September of 1951, 20-year-old Darryl, who had grown unhappy and disenchanted with Hollywood and the studio system in its inability to protect child actors, abandoned his career and entered a monastery, the Passionist Seminary, with the intent on becoming a priest. Within a year, however, he left when he realized he was not cut out for a life in the priesthood. He appeared in numerus TV shows and by the early 1960's, as film and TV offers began to dry up, Darryl wisely moved behind the scenes. Starting out as a TV writer, he eventually became a program executive. In the 70's he briefly attempted TV producing. In later years he would also become a respected acting coach in the Los Angeles area.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 19, 2020 2:56:42 GMT
Last thing I saw Linda Purl in was MIGHTY JOE YOUNG the remake.
But from her IMDB I see she has remained active.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 19, 2020 23:15:30 GMT
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