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Jonathan Southworth "John" Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian perhaps best known for having played Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three's Company and 8 Simple Rules, respectively. He is also known for being the voice of the title character Clifford in the PBS television series Clifford the Big Red Dog. Don Knotts called him the "Greatest physical comedian on the planet".
Ritter's final films—the screwball dark comedy Bad Santa and the two children's animated films Clifford's Really Big Movie and Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up—were all dedicated in his memory.
John Ritter was born in Burbank, California, the son of Dorothy Fay (née Southworth), an actress, and singing cowboy/matinee-star Tex Ritter. He attended Hollywood High School, where he was student body president. He went on to the University of Southern California, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, and majored in psychology and minored in architecture. In 1966 at the age of 18, Ritter was a contestant on The Dating Game.
Actors: Colin Cunningham (actor), Tanya Mazur (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Gordon (actress), Peter Madamba (miscellaneous crew), Wallace Langham (actor), Stanley M. Brooks (producer), Terence Kelly (actor), David Lewis (actor), Daniel Roebuck (actor), Ross Ikeda (miscellaneous crew), Brian Dennehy (actor), Gary Hudson (actor), Jason Schombing (actor), Ingrid Torrance (actress), Christopher Shyer (actor),
Plot: 'Three's Company', the comedy centered on two attractive, young women who made the rent on their Santa Monica beach-side apartment by taking in a third roommate - a male forced to pretend he's gay to fool the landlords and the girls' parents. The series rocketed in the ratings as an instant hit - despite the outcry of critics and moralists - who objected to the double-entendres and quasi-sexual hijinks on the show. However, the true behind-the-scenes story of 'Three's Company' will expose a once idyllic workplace that deteriorated into a battleground beset by business dealings, contact disputes, cast rivalries, clashes between producers and network executives and finally, a round of cast replacements which hastened the demise of the show.
Keywords: actor, agent, bad-landlord, behind-the-scenes, blonde-stereotype, closeted-homosexual, number-in-title, roommate, sitcom, sitcom-starActors: Holbrook N. Todd (editor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), Bert LeBaron (actor), Wheeler Oakman (actor), Irving Pichel (actor), Lyle Talbot (actor), Carleton Young (actor), Julie Bishop (actress), Sheila Bromley (actress), Sigmund Neufeld (producer), Jack London (writer), George Wallace Sayre (writer), Adia Kuznetzoff (actor),
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,Actors: William LeBaron (producer), Ricardo Cortez (actor), George Irving (actor), Archie Marshek (editor), Max Rée (costume designer), Lon Poff (actor), Henry Roquemore (actor), Charles Sellon (actor), Monte Vandergrift (actor), Mary Astor (actress), Mary Foy (actress), Carey Wilson (writer), Dorothy Granger (actress), J. Walter Ruben (writer), Edna Murphy (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance,All Things Bright & Beautiful
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colours,
He made their tiny wings.
The purple-headed mountain,
The river running by,
The sunset and the morning,
That brightens up the sky.
The cold wind in the weather,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden -
He made them every one.
He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,