![Open House TV Show Intro [HQ]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110415053600im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Y3y2fYOgck/0.jpg "Open House TV Show Intro [HQ]")
| Show name | Open House |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Creator | Ruth BennettSusan Seeger |
| Writer | Bruce Ferber |
| Director | Dwayne HickmanPhilip Charles MacKenzieArlene SanfordDavid SemelLee Shallat-ChemelMichael Zinberg |
| Starring | Alison LaPlacaMary Page KellerChris Lemmon |
| Composer | John Beasley |
| Country | United States |
| Language | |
| Num seasons | 1 |
| Num episodes | 24 |
| Executive producer | Ruth BennettSusan Seeger |
| Producer | Deborah LeschinLinda NieberBarry VigonTom Walla |
| Runtime | 22–24 minutes |
| Company | Ubu Productions |
| Channel | Fox |
| First aired | |
| Last aired | |
| Status | Ended |
| Related | Duet |
Open House is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from August 27, 1989 to July 21, 1990. The series was a spin-off of the Fox series Duet. Despite airing right after the Top 50 hit Married...with Children on Sundays, the series attracted low ratings, thus Fox canceled the show after 24 episodes.
The premise of the series had originated on the series finale of Duet, in which Linda was introduced to Ted, which of whom brought her to Juan Verde to start her new career. LaPlaca and MacKenzie had been dating for several years by the time they worked opposite each other on Duet and Open House (in fact, they first worked together on a 1985 episode of MacKenzie's former series, Brothers). After Open House ceased production, the two were married.
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| Name | Hugh Laurie |
|---|---|
| Caption | Hugh Laurie at the Actors' Guild Question and Answer, 2009 |
| Birth name | James Hugh Calum Laurie |
| Birth date | June 11, 1959 |
| Birth place | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, writer, musician, director |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse |
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (; born 11 June 1959), better known as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 until 1999. Since 2004, he has been starring as Dr. Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he has received two Golden Globe awards and several Emmy nominations. As of August 2010, he is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television. He was also a member of the prestigious Footlights Club, of which he was president in 1981.
Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university; in 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships. In 1980, Laurie and his rowing partner, J. S. Palmer, were runners-up in the Silver Goblets She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team. In 1980–81, his final year at university, besides rowing, Laurie was also president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer.
Fry and Laurie went on to work together on various projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, but most notably Prince George and Lieutenant George. Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie; another project was Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves’s employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. He and Fry worked together at various charity stage events, such as Hysteria! 1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International’s The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars. They collaborated again on the film Peter's Friends and came together for a retrospective show in 2010 titled Fry and Laurie Reunited.
Laurie appeared in the music videos for the 1986 single "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush and the 1992 single "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox, in full Regency-period costume, a toned-down version of his Prince George character from , opposite John Malkovich, similarly reprising his role of the Vicomte Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons.
Laurie’s later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians (1996), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies; Elton’s adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby (2000); Girl From Rio; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix; and the three Stuart Little films.
In 1996, Laurie’s first novel, The Gun Seller, an intricate thriller laced with Wodehouseian humour, was published and became a best seller. He has since been working on the screenplay for a movie version and on a second novel, The Paper Soldier. In 1998, Laurie had a brief guest-starring role on Friends in "The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two".
Since 2002, Laurie has appeared in a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of the spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One. In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). In 2001, he voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea". Laurie voiced the character of Mr. Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig. He was a panellist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host. In 2004, Laurie guest-starred as a professor in charge of a space probe called Beagle, on The Lenny Henry Show.
Laurie's fame expanded to the American public in 2004, when he first starred as the acerbic physician specialising in diagnostic medicine, Dr. Gregory House in the popular Fox medical drama House. For his portrayal, Laurie assumes an American accent. Laurie was in Namibia filming Flight of the Phoenix and recorded the audition tape for the show in the bathroom of the hotel, the only place he could get enough light. Laurie also adopts the accent between takes on the set of House,
Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in House in 2005. Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in both 2006 and 2007 for his work on the series and the Screen Actors Guild award in 2007 and 2009. Laurie was also awarded a large increase in salary, from what was rumoured to be a mid-range five-figure sum to $350,000 per episode. He hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, in which he appeared in drag in a sketch about a man (Kenan Thompson) with a broken leg who accuses his doctor of being dishonest. Laurie played the man’s wife.
In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out, filmed in celebration of Fry’s 50th birthday.
In 2008, Laurie appeared as Captain James Biggs in Street Kings, opposite Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and then in 2009 as the eccentric Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. in DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens. He also hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time on the Christmas show in which he sang a medley of 3-second Christmas songs to close his monologue.
In 2009, Laurie returned to guest star in another Family Guy episode, "Business Guy", parodying Gregory House and himself assuming an American accent.
In 2010, Laurie filmed an independent feature called The Oranges and played piano on a track of Meat Loaf's CD Hang Cool Teddy Bear.
In 2010, Laurie guest starred in The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXI" as Roger, a castaway who is planning a murder scheme on a ship during Homer and Marge's second honeymoon.
Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Green in June 1989 in Camden, London. They live in North London with sons Charles "Charlie" Archibald (born November 1988, Camden), William "Bill" Albert (born January 1991, Camden) and daughter Rebecca Augusta (born September 1993, Westminster, London). "Boredom," he commented in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, "is not an appropriate response to exploding cars."
Laurie admires the writings of P.G. Wodehouse, explaining in a 27 May 1999 article in The Daily Telegraph how reading Wodehouse novels had saved his life.various characters | |- | 1984 | | Lord Monty | episode: "Bambi" |- | 1985 | Plenty | Michael | |- | 1985 | Mrs. Capper's Birthday | Bobby | |- | 1985 | Happy Families | Jim | |- | 1986 | Blackadder II | Simon Partridge (also known as Mr Ostrich & Farters Parters)Prince Ludwig the Indestructible | |- | 1987 | Filthy Rich & Catflap | N'Bend | |- | 1987 | Blackadder the Third | George, Prince of Wales, The Prince Regent | |- | 1988 | Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Prince GeorgeLord Pigmot (future) | |- | 1989–1995 | A Bit of Fry & Laurie | various characters | also writer |- | 1989 | Blackadder Goes Forth | Lt. the Honourable George Colhurst St. Barleigh | |- | 1989 | Strapless | Colin | |- | 1989 | | Waiter | |- | 1990–1993 | Jeeves and Wooster | Bertie Wooster | |- | 1992 | Peter's Friends | Roger Charleston | |- | 1993 | All or Nothing at All | Leo Hopkins | television film |- | 1993–1995 | | Squire Trelawney | voice |- | 1994 | A Pin for the Butterfly | Uncle | television film |- | 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Mr. Palmer | |- | 1996 | Tracey Takes On... | Timothy Bugge | season 1 |- | 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Jasper | |- | 1997 | Spiceworld | Poirot | |- | 1997 | | Police Officer Oliver Steady | |- | 1997 | | Tarquin | voice |- | 1998 | Friends | Gentleman on the Plane | episode: "The One with Ross's Wedding" |- | 1998 | | Harrap, a Barrister | |- | 1998 | | Pierre, The King's Advisor | |- | 1998 | Cousin Bette | Baron Hector Hulot | |- | 1999 | | Viscount George Bufton-Tufton/Georgius | |- | 1999 | Stuart Little | Mr. Fredrick Little | |- | 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Dr. Lawyer | episode: "Mental Apparition Disorder" |- | 2000 | Maybe Baby | Sam Bell | |- | 2001 | Chica de Río | Raymond Woods | alternate title: Girl from Rio |- | 2001 | | Vincente Minnelli |- | 2001 | Family Guy | Bar patron | voiceepisode: "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea" |- | 2001 | Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter | Narrator | voice |- | 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | Mr. Frederick Little | |- | 2002 | Spooks | Jools Siviter | |- | 2003 | The Young Visiters | Lord Bernard Clark | |- | 2003 | Fortysomething | Paul Slippery | |- | 2003 | ''' | Mr. Frederick Little (Voice) | episode: "The Meatloaf Bandit" |- | 2004–present | House | Dr. Gregory House | lead actoralso directed episode: Lockdown |- | 2004 | Fire Engine Fred | | |- | 2004 | Flight of the Phoenix | Ian | |- | 2005 | Valiant | Wing Commander Gutsy | voice |- | 2005 | | Doctor #5 | |- | 2005 | | Mr. Frederick Little | voice |- | 2006, 2008 | Saturday Night Live | Hostvarious characters | season 32, episode 4season 34, episode 11 |- | 2008 | Street Kings | Captain Biggs | |- | 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. | voice |- | 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space | Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. | voice |- | 2009 | Family Guy | Gregory House/himself | voiceepisode: "Business Guy" |- | 2010 | The Simpsons | Roger | voiceepisode: "Treehouse of Horror XXI" |- | 2010 | Fry and Laurie Reunited | | |- | 2011 | | David Walling | lead actor | |}
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