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I didn't know he was the lead in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

I think I remember him from the Golden Girls episode where he was a widower and asked Blanche to marry him.

One of many actors who never got their due but continued to work and work and show generations how it's done.

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:o Very sorry to hear this. 96, that's a great number of years, I hope the final ones were peaceful and pain-free.

Yes Carl, that was him in that ep of TGG, he wanted Blanche to be a mother to his children while he was off being a dashing millionaire. I particularly remember him in his Jiminy Glick glasses on The Colbys.

Mr. McCarthy was in that infamous Actors Studio production of The Three Sisters starring Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, and Shirley Knight/Sandy Dennis. He was Vershinin to Stanley's Masha and he remarked that he made his paycheck having to kiss her every performance as she was an alcoholic and prone to losing the contents of her stomach. (This of course was the show that was thrashed by critics and audience alike in London and made Kim Stanley vow to never return to the stage again... she didn't.)

I also remember him from the HBO show Dream On where he played the lead's gay dad. There was an awkward scene where he walked in on his dad and some other old guy making out on the couch. :lol:

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The other guy was Paul Dooley right? I could never remember who the father was. I remember a scene where the father told his son that it was just natural for a man to check out the a$$ on a ballplayer, and the son said...no, it isn't.

That Three Sisters production sounds crazy, was there any other gossip with that.

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:lol: :lol: That's funny. My cousin loved that show and introduced it to me, I only saw bits and pieces and I really should get it on Netflix or something. Hm, that's funny, could have been Paul Dooley, at that time I wouldn't have had a name for the face. It wasn't until Waiting For Guffman that I really cemented him in my brain and would later realize it was him in two episodes of The Golden Girls as two different characters (Issac Newton who they set up on a blind date for Rose, and George in the god awful backdoor pilot for Empty Nest starring Rita Moreno).

I think The Three Sisters did just fine in NY, they actually recorded it as a film, I have a copy. It looks like an old kinescope of a soap/golden era live television. But England wasn't ready for all of the Methody tics and pauses and stammers (Sandy Dennis being the worst offender) when this piece had always been played like Shakespeare in their neck of the woods and they just HATED it. Even Strasberg's son said it was long and boring and he swears there were boos at curtain call. A former teacher of mine was an understudy. You can read more juice here: http://books.google.com/books?id=l01ieBMKcrUC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false

ETA: Sucks that the Google Books preview edits out so many pages. :angry:

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