unclecharlie Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I'm going to be MIA for a few days and don't want to tie up this thread. The answer is Buddy Ebsen. Thread is open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I was born in Britain. I began as an accounting apprentice and while serving as a business manager for an impresario, took an interest in acting., first appearing on the London stage before WW I, in which I fought. During the '20s, I was a popular leading man in London and NY theaters. I married an actress and we appeared together in many productions. In the early '30s, I began appearing exclusively in films, where I had the persona of an urbane, mature romantic lead.. But advancing age and my reserved manner gradually forced me into character parts, relying on a charming personality and a mellifluous voice. In a career that spanned 4 decades, I appeared opposite many of Hollywood's most glamorous female stars. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I was born in Britain. I began as an accounting apprentice and while serving as a business manager for an impresario, took an interest in acting., first appearing on the London stage before WW I, in which I fought. During the '20s, I was a popular leading man in London and NY theaters. I married an actress and we appeared together in many productions. In the early '30s, I began appearing exclusively in films, where I had the persona of an urbane, mature romantic lead.. But advancing age and my reserved manner gradually forced me into character parts, relying on a charming personality and a mellifluous voice. In a career that spanned 4 decades, I appeared opposite many of Hollywood's most glamorous female stars. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 are you Ralph Richardson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 No, I am NOT Ralph Richardson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molo14 Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Are you Herbert Marshall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Are you John Gielgud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Herbert Marshall is correct. Your thread, Molo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molo14 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Thanks. Please try this one. I had a long career, including vaudeville, where I introduced and helped popularize a number of well known songs. Late in my career I released an album of my old stage songs. I also appeared on Broadway and in over a hundred films. Still, I am best remembered today for my work in television. Do you know me? Edited by: molo14 on Oct 5, 2009 4:30 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molo14 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 No replies yet? Okay let's review the clues: I had a long career, including vaudeville, where I introduced and helped popularize a number of well known songs. Late in my career I released an album of my old stage songs. I also appeared on Broadway and in over a hundred films. Still, I am best remembered today for my work in television. Now here are some new clues. I said I am best remembered today for my work in television. I was a regular on one of the most popular television shows of all time. When that run ended, I landed a job on another new series. That show would go on for an even longer run, but without me. After fives years I was forced to leave because I was no longer insurable due to my declining health. I wasn't happy about that. I died shortly thereafter. Now come on, Do you know me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 William Frawley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molo14 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Yes you are correct. One of the songs I introduced was Melancholy Baby. After leaving *I Love Lucy* I played Bub on *My Three Sons* for the first five seasons. After being forced to leave the series in 1965, I died the following year. Quite a work ethic for a cantankerous old man. The thread is yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 We can all learn a lesson or two from William Frawley... I was born in France, child of a doctor...I've made well over 100 films...several classics - in various decades beginning with the 1930's - and I'm still working today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 First clue and more... I was born in France, child of a doctor...I've made well over 100 films...several classics - in various decades beginning with the 1930's - and I'm still working today! I worked under the direction of the great Max Ophuls on more than one of his classics... I was featured in one of my more recent films with seven other fabulous French femmes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Are you Danielle Darrieux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Oui?I am Danielle Darrieux...TCM recently aired two fine Max Ophuls films in which I starred: *The Earrings of Madame de?* and *La Ronde*. In 2002 I starred with Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle B?art and others in *8 femmes* ?now age 92, I have one film in post-production and am in the process of filming another! Tr?s bon?Miles?this thread is yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Merci, beaucoup, Mademoiselle Eve. I was a child actor. I came along too late for the Our Gang comedies and a little too early for television, although I did a little TV work in the fifties. I was one of the leading juvenile stars of the forties and early fifties. I did some work for Disney, but it was for a very dramatic role in a movie for RKO that I won a special juvenile Oscar. That role was so dear to my heart for many years. When I grew up, the roles dried up and I turned to drugs. I died penniless at a rather young age. Do you know me? I bet that several of you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Bobby Driscoll Star of Disney's "Song of the South","So Dear to my Heart" and "Treasure Island" who died as a result of drugs and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave in New York and is still there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 You got it, Fred. Bobby Driscoll was like so many other child stars that we have heard of, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Scotty Beckett come to mind, who outgrow their "cute" years and have a tough time finding good adult roles. He was thirty-one when he died. His juvenile Oscar was for a movie called "The Window", where he played a boy who was always telling fibs. He was like the boy who cried wolf. When he really did see something happen, nobody believed him. Nobody, that is, except the killer. Your turn, Fred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I'll jump in here in place of the missing fred baetz: I was born in Texas in 1882. I began my show business career at 13 as an entertainer on Mississippi riverboats and later spent many years on the legitimate stage. On the screen, I played key supporting roles and occasional leads in productions of Warner Brothers and other studios in the '30s and '40s as a pudgy, jolly, often foxy character player. I often portrayed small-town civic leaders. I retired from the screen in 1949. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Are you Guy Kibbee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Yes I am Guy KIbbee. Take it, Lana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 ?I could be found in the shoes of immoral and sometimes amoral men in the 1930s, mainly in pre-code movies . I possessed a booming voice that commanded attention and was cast against several great leading ladies. At least three of my most notable films have been remade and therefore I have been pretty much forgotten except for certain film lovers. Even though I was continually using people and especially women as pawns in my unscrupulous pursuit to the top, in real life I was rather old-fashioned and was married only once, for 25 years . In my spare time, I was an amateur inventor and I was the owner of multiple patents, including one of the first recreational vehicles. I also held the patent for the first lawn vacuum, a device which would become commonplace with landscapers. I was very prolific in the 1930s, but as the 1940s progressed I worked less and I retired in 1947 after completing a film about a cad, which was not me.? ?Do you know me?? Edited by: allaboutlana on Oct 15, 2009 4:36 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 are you Ricardo Cortez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 ?No. But both Ricardo and I played a famous lawyer/detective. Then , after I quit that series, I starred in another mystery series, which relied a lot on comic relief, if not a bit too much. I left that mystery series, too, before it ultimately ended.? Edited by: allaboutlana on Oct 16, 2009 12:39 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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