Name	Geri Lee Reischl
Caption	In May 2009.
Birth date	December 31, 1959
Birth place	U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1966-1982

Geri Reischl (born on December 31, 1959 in Bellflower, California) is an American actress, known for her work as a child actor in the 1970's, most notably on the variety show The Brady Bunch Hour and various television commercials. Her role as Jan is documented in the book Love to Love You Bradys published in 2009 by ECW Press.

Career

Acting career

Geri's first appearance was at the age of six playing Gretl in a production of The Sound of Music, starring Patrice Munsel, at the Melodyland Theatre in Anaheim, California. There, she was discovered by a talent agent who signed her and got her parts in two commercials. She was then signed to an exclusive contract with Mattel Toys until she was retired in 1971 by the company at the age of 11. During her career Geri appeared in over 40 commercials for almost any product imaginable. From 1979-1983 she appeared in a series of Wizard of Oz themed commercials for the breakfast cereal Crispy Wheats-n-Raisins in which she played Dorothy.

On television Geri appeared on Gunsmoke, The Interns, Apple's Way and The Bold Ones. In addition to her noteworthy role as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch Hour Geri filmed a television pilot with Rene Simard entitled Rene and the Proteens.

She went on to star in several low budget splatter films such as The Brotherhood of Satan (1971) and I Dismember Mama (1974).

Singing career

Geri sang and played guitar in a California band by the name of Sand Dabs from 1974-76. She went on to perform at U.S.O. clubs, Magic Mountain, Knotts Berry Farm, the Harrah's Club, and with Marty Robbins at the Palomino Club of North Hollywood. Geri was one of Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Kids" in his Lake Tahoe night club act, and also performed with Red Skelton. In the summer of 1976, Geri toured the United States and Montreal doing an act with Canadian singing sensation Rene Simard. Because of her interest in country music she made a guest appearance on the show Pop! Goes the Country in 1977 that was filmed at the Grand Ole Opry.

The Brady Bunch

Geri is best know for replacing Eve Plumb in nine episodes of the The Brady Bunch Hour during the 1976-77 television season. Her appearances as Jan have been referred to as 'Fake Jan'. She was selected from over 1,500 girls, including Kathy Hilton, who auditioned for the role in 1976. She became a member of the famous television family when Eve Plumb declined to reprise her role in the new series.

See also

Love to Love You Bradys

Brady Bunch

Brady Bunch Hour

External links

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Name	Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr.
Birth date	August 11, 1925
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Death date	August 11, 2006
Death place	Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Occupation	Entertainer
Website	Official Website

Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. (August 11, 1925 – August 11, 2006) was an American entertainer.

Early life and career

Douglas was born in Chicago, Illinois, and began singing as a choirboy. By his teens he was working as a singer on a Lake Michigan dinner cruise ship. After serving briefly in the United States Navy near the end of World War II and as a "staff singer" for WMAQ-TV in Chicago, he moved to Los Angeles. He was on the Ginny Simms radio show. Then, he became a vocalist in the big band of Kay Kyser, with whom he was featured on two notable hits, "Ole [or Old] Buttermilk Sky" in 1946 and "The Old Lamplighter" the following year. Kyser was responsible for giving him his show business name, and he remained part of Kyser's band until Kyser retired from show business in 1951.

In 1950, he provided the singing voice of Prince Charming in Walt Disney's Cinderella.

In the 1950s Douglas, living in Burbank, California, tried to keep his singing career going, working as house singer for a nightclub and going on the road to stay busy. He preferred not to switch to rock and roll, which limited his opportunities as big band music was declining in popularity. In the leanest years, he and his wife survived by successfully "flipping" their Los Angeles homes.

Talk show

He next surfaced in 1961 in Cleveland, where a onetime Chicago colleague hired him for $400 a week as an afternoon television talk-show host at WKYC-TV, then known as KYW-TV. The Mike Douglas Show rapidly gained popularity, and ultimately, national syndication in August 1963 on the five Westinghouse-owned stations. The show was broadcast "live" on KYW-TV in its city of origination, but this practice ended in 1965 after guest Zsa Zsa Gabor used inappropriate language on-the-air when referring to stand-up comedian and comic actor Morey Amsterdam of the Dick Van Dyke Show. As KYW-TV's owner, Group W, successfully had a station swap with NBC overturned by the FCC. Westinghouse returned to Philadelphia on June 19, 1965 with call letters KYW-TV. Along with the station swap came The Mike Douglas Show, which aired its first Philadelphia-based show on August 30, 1965. Even after ownership reverted back to NBC, WKYC in Cleveland continued to carry the program for many years afterward.

Guests ranged from Truman Capote and Richard Nixon to The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits and Kiss, with an occasional on-camera appearance from Tim Conway (who would later be discovered at WJW). The show helped introduce entertainers such as Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin. After the move to Philadelphia, Douglas also attempted to revive his own singing career, logging his lone Top 40 single as a solo artist, "The Men In My Little Girl's Life" in 1966.

By 1967, The Mike Douglas Show was broadcast to 171 markets and 6,000,000 viewers each day, mostly women at home. It earned $10.5 million from advertisers, while its host was paid more than $500,000. In 1967, the program received the first Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Daytime Television from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Most weeks, Douglas would be joined by a co-host, including John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and Anne Baxter.

In July 1978, the talk show's home base was transferred to Los Angeles, where it remained until finally going off the air in 1982. A second series, The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour, ended production in 1982.

In 1982 Douglas hosted CNN's Los Angeles-based celebrity interview show, People Now, taking over the hosting duties from Lee Leonard. He was replaced in December 1982 by Bill Tush.

Other notable achievements

Douglas became a local cultural icon in Philadelphia, often inviting prominent players from the city's professional sports teams to be guests on his show (he had a particular affinity for the city's pro football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, constantly referring to the team as "Our Eagles", and he could often be seen in attendance at Eagles' home games, especially whenever they appeared on Monday Night Football). He also assisted in mayor Frank Rizzo's campaign against derisive jokes often told by outsiders about the city, acting as chief spokesperson for the "Anti-Defamation Agency" Rizzo had set up for this purpose.

Douglas wrote two memoirs: My Story (1979) and I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show (1999). He also wrote a cookbook, The Mike Douglas Cookbook (1969), featuring recipes from him, his family, and the show's guests.

Forty years after Douglas began his talk show at KYW-TV, his granddaughter Debbie Voinovich Donley designed successor WKYC's new broadcast facility on Lakeside Avenue, completed in 2002.

In 2007, a new documentary film Mike Douglas: Moments and Memories was shown on PBS stations.

Death

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990, but after surgery he was cancer-free. Douglas died in 2006 on his 81st birthday, at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Though the cause of death has not yet been disclosed, Douglas's wife, Genevieve, tells the Associated Press that he became dehydrated on a golf course a few weeks previously and had been treated for that off and on since. "He was coming along fine," says the widow. "We never anticipated this to happen."

He was survived by his widow Genevieve, daughters Kelly and twins Michele and Christine, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Miscellaneous notes

His highest ratings came with a show co-hosted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Bill Cosby credits Mike Douglas for his "discovery."

Jackie Gleason and Art Carney are guests on "The Mike Douglas Show" in their roles as Kramden and Norton on an episode of "The Color Honeymooners" musical-variety TV programs in the late 1960s.

Tiger Woods appeared on the show as a toddler, golfing with Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.

Guests for The Mike Douglas Show were often treated to a round trip limousine ride between New York City and Philadelphia. Jack Benny, who projected miserliness as part of his professional persona, took a Philadelphia city bus instead.

In the 1996 comedy film The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy, Grandma Klump (portrayed by Murphy in drag) admits she would get moist while watching Mike Douglas.

See also

The Mike Douglas Show

Michael Douglas

References

External links

CNN.com – Talk show host Mike Douglas dead

WKYC-TV – Talk Show host Mike Douglas remembered

Philadelphia KYW-TV article

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Name	Lynn Anderson
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Lynn Rene Anderson
Born	September 26, 1947
Origin	Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Instrument	Vocals
Genre	Country Pop
Occupation	Singer, Equestrian
Years active	1966–present
Label	Chart Columbia Permian MCA Mercury
Associated acts	Liz Anderson, Glenn Sutton, Mentor Williams, Jerry Lane, Ed Bruce, Gary Morris
Url	The Lynn Anderson Show

Lynn Rene Anderson (born September 26, 1947 in Grand Forks, North Dakota) is an American country music singer and equestrian, best known for her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most popular and successful female country singers of the 1970s. She has scored eleven #1, eighteen Top 10, and over fifty Top 40 hits. She was the first female country artist to win an American Music Award in 1974, as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden that same year. Anderson was named Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" (1970-1980).

Anderson debuted in 1966, at the age of 19, and had her first major hit with "Ride, Ride, Ride". After a series of Top 10 hit singles on the country charts during the later half of the 1960s, Anderson went on to sign with Columbia Records in 1970. Under Columbia, she had her most successful string of hits. Her signature song, "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden", was and remains one of the most successful country crossover hits of all time. The song even made it to #3 on the Billboard Pop Chart and was later ranked #83 on CMT's "100 Greatest Songs in Country Music History".

Early life

Anderson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota and raised in Fair Oaks, California. She is the daughter of country music songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson.

Anderson became interested in singing at the young age of six , but she had her first success in the horse show arena in and around California, where she would eventually win a total of 700 trophies, including the "California Horse Show Queen" title in 1966. Into her teens, she performed regularly on the local television program Country Caravan. The single peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country Chart and also peaked at #3 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and would go on to become her signature song. and in Germany it peaked at #1 and stayed there for four weeks. The album, Rose Garden was released in 1971, and was also successful, receiving a "Gold" certification by the RIAA, eventually becoming certified "Platinum." Anderson won the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" Award and the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" Award in 1970 and 1971. In addition, she won a Grammy Award.

Anderson would never land another single on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Chart, although she had her biggest success on the country charts during this period.

Anderson's success slowed down toward the end of the '70s.

In 2000, Tennessee governor Don Sundquist made June 15 "Lynn Anderson Day" throughout the state. Anderson produced a TNN special, "American Country Cowboys," which helped handicapped groups also during this time. In 2005, she performed on the Grand Ole Opry with Country singer, Martina McBride, performing a duet version of "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden".

In June 2007, she performed as part of the CMA's 2007 Music Festival in Nashville. She performed an outdoor concert at the Riverfront Park area, which also included concerts by Aaron Tippin and Jason Michael Carroll. At the festival, Anderson duetted with songwriter and fiance Mentor Williams on his composition recorded by Dobie Gray and later Uncle Kracker, "Drift Away".

In April 2009, she was part of the concert line-up at the annual Stagecoach Festival in Palm Springs, which also included concerts by Charlie Daniels, Kevin Costner, and Reba McEntire. Lynn Anderson remains a popular concert attraction, regularly headlining major casinos and performing arts centers. Throughout 2010, she performed a series of concerts backed by the Metropole Symphony Orchestra.

Equestrian career

Outside of her music career, Anderson has also maintained an equestrian horse racing career since the 1960s. As a horsewoman, she has won 16 national championships, eight world championships and several celebrity championships.

Her most recent championships include the National Chevy Truck Cutting Horse Champion in 1999, the American U.S. Open Invitational Champion in 2000,and the National Cutting Horse Association Champion in 1999.

On May 3, 2006, Anderson was arrested on a second Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol charge following a minor traffic accident near Espanola, New Mexico. According to police, Anderson failed a sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer test after her car hit the back of another car. No one was injured in the collision. Anderson was later released on bond.

Awards & honors

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Award Program ! Award |- | 1967 | rowspan="2"| Academy of Country Music Award | rowspan="2"| Top Female Vocalist |- | 1970 |- | rowspan="2"| 1971 | Grammy Award | Best Female Country Vocal Performance; "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" |- | Country Music Association Award | Female Vocalist of the Year |- | 1974 | American Music Award | Favorite Female Country Artist |- | rowspan="2"| 1980 | Record World | rowspan="2"| Artist of the Decade; 1970 – 1980 |- | Billboard |- | 1999 | American Country Music Association Hall of Fame | Inductee |- | 2002 | CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music | Ranking – #29 |- | rowspan="4"| 2007 | rowspan="4"| Academy of Western Artists | Best Western Song |- | Best Western Album; Cowgirl |- | Best Western Swing Album; Cowgirl |- | Best Female Vocalist |}

Discography

References

Source

Bufwack, Mary A. (1998). "Lynn Anderson". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury (editor); New York: Oxford University Press, page 14.

External links

Lynn Anderson official website: The Lynn Anderson Show

Category:1947 births Category:1960s singers Category:1970s singers Category:1980s singers Category:1990s singers Category:2000s singers Category:2010s singers Category:American country singers Category:American female singers Category:American television actors Category:American jockeys Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Living people Category:Musicians from California Category:People from Sacramento County, California Category:People from New Mexico Category:People from Grand Forks, North Dakota Category:American musicians of Norwegian descent Category:American sportspeople of Norwegian descent

Caption	Lee Majors, 2008
Birthname	Harvey Lee Yeary
Birth date	April 23, 1939
Birth place	Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Yearsactive	1964–present
Spouse	Kathy Robinson (1961-1964) Farrah Fawcett (1973-1982) Karen Velez (1988-1994) Faith Noelle Cross (2002-)

Lee Majors (born April 23, 1939) is an American actor, primarily known for several high profile roles on television in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Majors is known for his roles as Victoria Barkley's (played by Barbara Stanwyck) husband's illegitimate son, Heath Barkley, in The Big Valley (1965–1969), as Owen Marshall's (played by Arthur Hill) law partner/friend, Jess Brandon, in (1971–1974), as Colonel Steve Austin, in The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978), and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (1981–1986). He also had a recurring role as Col. Seymour Kooze in Son of the Beach.

Early life

Majors was born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939, in the Detroit suburb of Wyandotte, Michigan. He was the child of Carl Yeary, who was killed in a work-related accident before Harvey was born, and Alice Yeary, who was killed in a car accident when he was a year old. At age two, Yeary was adopted by an uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and moved with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky, where they already had another son, Bill.

Since his adoptive older brother had been a football star in school, Yeary tirelessly committed himself to the sport. While a student at Middlesboro High School, he participated in sports, from track to football. He graduated in 1957, and earned a scholarship to Indiana University, where he competed in more sports. Yeary left Indiana in 1959 and transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, after he got into a fight at a fraternity house. He played in his first game the following year, but suffered a severe back injury which left him paralyzed for two weeks, and ended his college football career.

He then turned his attention to acting and performed in plays at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky. Yeary graduated from Eastern in 1962 with a degree in History and Physical Education.

After college, he received an offer to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals football team; instead, he moved to Los Angeles and found work at the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Department as the Recreation Director for North Hollywood Park. This was after a brief stint playing for the new football franchise Boston Patriots as a safety. There, Yeary met many actors and industry professionals, including Dick Clayton, who had been James Dean's agent. Clayton suggested he attend his acting school. It took one year of studying in order for Clayton to help the newly christened Lee Majors start his career. Lee also studied at Estelle Harmon's acting school at MGM. At 25, Majors landed his first role in Strait-Jacket (1964), which starred Joan Crawford.

Majors chose his stage surname because of his childhood hero Johnny Majors who was a runner-up for the Heisman Trophy at the University of Tennessee and was later the head football coach.

Television roles

The Big Valley

Majors got his big break when he beat out over 400 young actors, including Burt Reynolds, for the co-starring role of Heath Barkley in a new ABC western series, The Big Valley, which starred Barbara Stanwyck. Also starring on the show was another newcomer, Linda Evans, who played Heath's younger sister, Audra. Richard Long and Peter Breck played his brothers Jarrod and Nick, respectively. One of Heath's frequently used expressions during the series was "Boy howdy!" Big Valley was an immediate hit. Majors went on to do some films such as Will Penny (1968) with Charlton Heston. Majors got a lead role in “The Ballad of Andy Crocker”, a 1969 American made-for-television film which was first broadcast by ABC. The film is notable as being one of the very first films to deal with the subject matter of Vietnam veterans "coming home".That same year, he was offered the chance to star in Midnight Cowboy (1969), but The Big Valley was renewed for another season and he was forced to decline the role, which went to Jon Voight. When The Big Valley was finally cancelled in 1969, he signed a long-term contract with Universal Studios. In 1970, Majors joined the cast of The Virginian for its last season.

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

In 1971, he landed the role of Arthur Hill's partner, Jess Brandon, on , which garnered critical acclaim for three seasons on ABC. In one episode, his girlfriend, and future wife, Farrah Fawcett, guest-starred.

The Six Million Dollar Man

Majors' co-starring role on Owen Marshall led him to a starring role as Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut with bionic limbs in The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1973 television movie broadcast on ABC.

In 1974, the network decided to turn it into a weekly series. The series became a huge international success, being screened in over 70 countries, and made Majors a leading pop icon of the 1970s. Co-starring on the show was Richard Anderson as Steve Austin's boss, Oscar Goldman, and Martin E. Brooks as Austin's doctor, Rudy Wells (initially played by Alan Oppenheimer). Lee also invited his then wife, Farrah Fawcett, to guest-star in four episodes. By this time, Majors and Fawcett were a high-profile Hollywood couple and were on the cover of magazines everywhere. Majors also made his directorial debut in 1975, on an episode called "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing," which costarred pro football players such as Larry Csonka and Dick Butkus.

During the show's third season, the producers gave Steve Austin a love interest on the show, Jaime Sommers (played by actress Lindsay Wagner). Steve and Jaime are romantically linked before she is injured in a skydiving accident and is bionically rebuilt, comparable to him except with a bionic ear instead of a bionic eye. At the end of the two-part episode, Jaime dies. ABC received a flood of letters from upset fans who wanted Wagner's character brought back from the dead. This was done, and the character was given her own spin-off show, The Bionic Woman.

In 1977, with The Six Million Dollar Man still a hit series, Majors tried to renegotiate his contract with Universal Television. The studio in turn filed a lawsuit to force him to report to work due to stipulations within his existing contract that had not yet expired. When he did not report to work that June, studio executives relented and offered Majors a raise. However, ratings began to decline and The Six Million Dollar Man was canceled in March 1978 (as was The Bionic Woman). In November 2010, Time Life released a 45 DVD set featuring every episode and bonus features from the show.

Feature film career

Majors first major foray into feature films was a co-starring role in the 1968 Charlton Heston film Will Penny, where he received an "Introducing" credit. After his role as Steve Austin, Majors starred in several movies: The Norseman (1978), Steel (1979), Killer Fish (1979), Agency (1980), The Last Chase (1981), and also made cameo appearances in Scrooged (1988) Out Cold (2001) Big Fat Liar (2002) and The Brothers Solomon (2007) The Story of Bonnie and Clyde (2010)

The Fall Guy

In 1981, Majors returned to television. Producer Glen A. Larson (who had first worked with Majors on Alias Smith and Jones, where Majors had a one episode part, and later on The Six Million Dollar Man) asked him to star in the pilot of The Fall Guy. Majors played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman and part-time bounty hunter. The Fall Guy allowed Majors an opportunity to show off his comedic abilities, something audiences hadn’t yet seen. Majors was also a producer and a director on the show, and even sang its theme song, the self-effacing "The Unknown Stuntman." Majors also invited several longtime friends, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, to guest-star in various episodes. The series ran for five seasons until 1986. According to an interview on Sirius/XM's Opie & Anthony Show in November 2010, the studio wanted to do another season of The Fall Guy but Majors was getting burnt out on Hollywood and felt the audience might have been getting burnt out on him. He decided to drop out for almost 10 years. He went to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and played a lot of golf.

After The Fall Guy, Majors' career became more low-key, and he made a series of made-for-TV movies and several pilots for unsuccessful TV shows. Between 1987 and 1994, he and Lindsay Wagner reunited in three The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman TV movies. In 1990, he had a recurring role in Tour of Duty, and a recurring role in the short-lived 1992 series, Raven.

Health problems

In the middle of 2003, Majors had single heart bypass surgery.

Personal life

Majors has been married to:

*Kathy Robinson (married 1961, divorced 1964); one child, actor Lee Majors II (born circa 1962), who would go on to appear as an OSI agent in the three The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman reunion movies with his father.

*Farrah Fawcett, actress, whom he married on July 28, 1973; was separated from in 1979, and divorced on February 16, 1982. During the first six years of their marriage, she was billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In 1976, the couple made TV history by being a husband and wife who simultaneously starred in separate top-rated shows (The Six Million Dollar Man and Charlie's Angels). After they split, Fawcett famously said, "If he's the six-million-dollar man, I'm the ten-billion-dollar woman." When Fawcett died on June 25, 2009, after her three-year-long battle with anal cancer, Majors issued a statement which read, "She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever."

*Playboy Playmate Karen Velez, married 1988, divorced 1994; one daughter, Nikki Loren, and twin sons, Dane Luke and Trey Kulley.

*Faith Majors, an actress and model; the two, a couple since 1995, wed on November 1, 2002.

Recent activities

He starred in a German Honda TV car commercial with his wife Faith Majors parodying the beginning of The Fall Guy, always refusing the challenges presented in the original.

* Majors played Jaret Reddick's disconnected father in Bowling For Soup's video, "When We Die."

* The football field on North 15th Street in his hometown of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was renamed in his honor.

* Majors voiced the character of in the video game .

* In The Simpsons episode "Burns' Heir", Marge has a fantasy about Lee Majors, in which she runs away with him after Bart graduates from Harvard in the future.

* In 2007 he voiced a character on the APTN stop motion animated children's program parodying Steve Austin named "Steve from Austin".

* In 2007, he played a minor role in Stephen King's The Mist.

* In 2007, he played Grandpa Max in .

* On January 1, 2008, Majors appeared in the role of "God" on the 7th season premiere and series finale of According to Jim.

* Also in 2008, Majors played a member of the Minutemen (dedicated to preventing illegal border crossings) in Season Four of the Showtime series Weeds, where he recruits Kevin Nealon’s character.

* Majors also played Coach Ross on the CW Network's television series "The Game", which ran from October 1, 2006 to May 20, 2009.

* Endorses Lee Major's Rechargeable Bionic Hearing Aid

* Lee Majors also appeared on ITVs The British Comedy Awards 2009 on the 12th December 2009 alongside Claudia Winkleman.

* He played in Human Target (Season 1, Episode 12) as the mentor of Christopher Chance.

* Majors played the crusty sailing instructor on the Community episode "Beginner Pottery".

* He provides the voice of General Abernathy in .

References

External links

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Name	Farrah Fawcett
Imagesize	200px
Caption	Record-breaking, iconic 1976 poster of Farrah Fawcett, which sold as many as 12 million copies
Birth name	Ferrah Leni Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the TV series Charlie's Angels, in 1976. Fawcett later appeared off-Broadway to critical approval and in highly rated and critically acclaimed television movies, in roles often challenging (The Burning Bed, Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, , Margaret Bourke-White) and sometimes unsympathetic (Small Sacrifices). Fawcett was a sex symbol whose iconic poster, released the same year Charlie's Angels premiered, broke sales records, making her an international pop culture icon. Her hairstyle was emulated by millions of young women in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said "Farrah was one of the iconic beauties of our time. Her girl-next-door charm combined with stunning looks made her a star on film, TV and the printed page."

Kate Jackson said,

In March 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences caused controversy when Fawcett was excluded from the "In Memoriam" montage at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, along with fellow television stars Bea Arthur, Gene Barry and Ed McMahon. In addition to Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, friends and colleagues of Fawcett publicly expressed their outrage at the oversight, including actress Jane Fonda and film critic Roger Ebert. AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis cited Fawcett's recognition at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards for her "remarkable television work," and said of all the exclusions: "There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all. They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we're sorry for it."

She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Theatrical films

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Television

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; background:#f9f9f9;" |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- | rowspan="3" | 1969 | Mayberry R.F.D. | Show Girl #1 | 1 episode |- | I Dream of Jeannie | Cindy
Tina | "See You in C-U-B-A"
"My Sister the Home Wrecker" |- | Three's a Crowd | Hitchhiker | Television movie |- | 1969–1970 | The Flying Nun | Miss Preem
Lila | "Armando and the Pool Table"
"Marcello's Idol" |- | rowspan="2" | 1970 | The Young Rebels | Sarah | "Dangerous Ally" |- | The Partridge Family | Pretty Girl | "The Sound of Money" |- | rowspan="3" | 1971 | | Tori Barbour | "Burden of Proof"
"Shadow of a Name" |- | The Feminist and the Fuzz | Kitty Murdock | Television movie |- | Inside O.U.T. | Pat Boulion | Unsold pilot |- | rowspan="3" | 1973 | The Girl with Something Extra | Carol | "How Green Was Las Vegas" |- | The Great American Beauty Contest | T.L. Dawson | Television movie |- | Of Men and Women | Young Actress | Segment: "The Interview" |- | rowspan="3" | 1974 | Apple's Way | Jane Huston | "The First Love" |- | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Laura Foley | "I've Promised You a Father: Part 1" |- | McCloud | Gloria Jean | "The Colorado Cattle Caper" |- | rowspan="2" | 1974–1976 | Harry O | Sue Ingham | 8 episodes |- | The Six Million Dollar Man | Major Kelly Wood (2 episodes), Trish Hollander, Victoria Webster | 4 episodes. As Farrah Fawcett Majors (Rescue of Athena One) and as Farrah Fawcett-Majors (Nightmare in the Sky, The Golden Pharaoh, and The Peeping Blonde) |- | rowspan="3" | 1975 | The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped | Patti | Television movie |- | Murder on Flight 502 | Karen White | As Farrah Fawcett-Majors |- | S.W.A.T. | Miss New Mexico | "The Steel-Plated Security Blanket"
as Farrah Fawcett-Majors |- | 1976–1980 | Charlie's Angels | Jill Munroe | Cast member from 1976–1977; recurring from 1978–1980
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (1976) |- | 1981 | Murder in Texas | Joan Robinson Hill | Television movie |- | rowspan="2" | 1984 | The Red-Light Sting | Kathy | Television movie |- | The Burning Bed | Francine Hughes | Television movie
Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |- | rowspan="2" | 1986 | Between Two Women | Val Petherton | Television movie |- | Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story | Beate Klarsfeld | Television movie
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |- | 1987 | | Barbara Hutton | Television movie
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |- | rowspan="3" | 1989 | Margaret Bourke-White | Margaret Bourke-White | Television movie |- | Small Sacrifices | Diane Downs | Television movie
Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |- | Good Sports | Gayle Roberts | 2 episodes |- | 1992 | Criminal Behavior | Jessica Lee Stubbs | Television movie |- | 1994 | The Substitute Wife | Pearl | Television movie |- | 1995 | Children of the Dust | Nora Maxwell | Miniseries |- | 1996 | Dalva | Dalva Northridge | Television movie |- | 1997 | Johnny Bravo | Farrah Fawcett / Old Lady | "Blarney Buddies/Over the Hump/Johnny Meets Farrah Fawcett" (voice) |- | rowspan="2" | 1999 | Silk Hope | Frannie Vaughn | Television movie |- | Ally McBeal | Robin Jones | "Changes" |- | 2000 | Baby | Lily Malone | Television movie |- | rowspan="2" | 2001 | Jewel | Jewel Hilburn | Television movie |- | Spin City | Judge Claire Simmons | 4 episodes |- | 2002–2003 | The Guardian | Mary Gressler | 4 episodes
Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series |- | 2003 | | Lissa Roman | Television movie |- | 2005 | Chasing Farrah | Herself | 7 episodes |- | 2009 | Farrah's Story | Herself | Also Executive producer |}

References

External links

Farrah Fawcett – Daily Telegraph obituary

Farrah Fawcett at TV Guide

Obituary by the Associated Press

Farrah Fawcett Memorial Website

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