Karen Valentine (born May 25, 1947, Sebastopol, California) is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the idealistic schoolteacher “Alice Johnson” in the television series Room 222.^[1] 

In 1969, Valentine won her breakthrough role as a new teacher on the ABC television series Room 222, with Lloyd Haynes and Michael Constantine. She was discovered by Gene Reynolds, the director of Room 222, who saw her lip syncing in rehearsal and saw that she was funny. She was nominated twice for an Emmy and once for a Golden Globe, winning an Emmy in 1970 for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role.

The actress later starred in the critically acclaimed true story Muggable Mary, Street Cop, as Gidget in the film Gidget Grows Up, and on her own television series in 1975, Karen as well as many movies for television. Valentine was a regular on Hollywood Squares, often trading quips with Paul Lynde. She guest-starred on many series, including Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, McMillan & Wife, Cybill and Murder, She Wrote and multiple episodes of The Love Boat and Love, American Style.

She continues to work in television and on stage. She co-starred with John Larroquette in a 2004 Hallmark Channel TV movie, Wedding Daze. She also had a major role in an episode of another Hallmark series, Mystery Woman (aka Mystery Weekend). She has starred on stage in many productions, including Romantic Comedy on Broadway and National Tour, Breaking Legs Off-Broadway and National Tour, and the Los Angeles production of Steel Magnolias.

Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in stages, films, children’s television, cartoons, and game show panelist.

Reilly was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of Charles Joseph Reilly, an Irish Catholic commercial artist, and Signe Elvera Nelson, aSwedish Lutheran.^[1] When young he would often make his own puppet theater to amuse himself. His mother, foreshadowing his future as an entertainer, often would tell him to “save it for the stage.”^[2] At age 13, he survived the infamous 1944 Hartford Circus Fire^[3] which killed 169 people in Connecticut and as a result, he never sat in an audience again through the remainder of his life, because of the event’s trauma, he rarely attended theater, stating that the large crowds reminded him of what happened that day.^[4] As a boy, Reilly developed a love for opera and desired to become an opera singer. He entered the Hartt School of Music as a voice major but eventually abandoned this pursuit when he came to the realization that he lacked the natural vocal talent to have a major career. However, opera remained a lifelong passion and he was a frequent guest on opera-themed radio programs, including the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. He also directed opera productions for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, and Santa Fe Opera among others. He was also good friends with opera singers Renée Fleming, Rod Gilfry, Roberta Peters, and Eileen Farrell.^[5]

While he kept active in Broadway shows, Reilly would soon become better known for his TV work, appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. For example, he appeared both as one of theWhat’s My Line? Mystery Guests and as a panelist on that popular Sunday night CBS-TV program. In 1965, he made regular appearances on The Steve Lawrence Show, which aired for a single season. Television commercials he made throughout the 1960s and 1970s included Excedrin and Bic Banana Ink Crayons, in which he wore a banana costume.

From 1968 to 1970, he appeared as uptight Claymore Gregg on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, which also starred Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare. In one episode, Reilly was reunited with his Hello, Dolly! original Broadway castmate Eileen Brennan. Reilly also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show, and had multiple guest appearances on television series including McMillan & Wife; Here’s Lucy; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; The Love Boat; and Love, American Style.

In 1971, Reilly appeared as the evil magician Hoodoo in Lidsville, a psychedelically flavored live-action children’s program produced by Sid and Marty Krofft that aired on Saturday mornings onABC. The show was about a boy who falls into a magician’s hat and enters a magical world of hat-humans. It is through these roles, as well as his playing the titular role in Uncle Croc’s Block and appearing once on Walt Disney‘s The Mouse Factory, that Reilly’s voice and mannerisms became familiar to a generation of young fans.

Reilly was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, appearing more than one hundred times. Because Reilly was such a lively and reliable talk-show guest and lived within blocks of the Burbank studios where The Tonight Show was taped, he was often asked to be a last-minute replacement for scheduled guests who did not make it to the studio in time.

Reilly was perhaps best known as a fixture of game shows, primarily due to his appearances as a regular panelist on the television game show Match Game. Reilly was one of the longest-running guests, and often engaged in petty, hilarious arguments with fellow regular Brett Somers (the two generally sat next to each other on the show, Somers in the upper middle seat and Reilly in the upper right-hand seat). Reilly typically offered sardonic commentary and peppered his answers with homosexually themed double entendres that pushed the boundaries of 1970s televisionstandards.

During the filming of Match Game 74 Reilly left for a short time, to film the made-for-TV movie Hamburger (1974) also starring Sid Caesar and Charlie Callas. From 1975 to 1976, Reilly starred in another live-action children’s program called Uncle Croc’s Block with Jonathan Harris. Reilly was often a guest celebrity in the 1984 game show Body Language, including one week with Lucille Ball and another week with Audrey Landers.

Reilly did not publicly affirm his homosexuality until his one-man show, Save It for the Stage. However, much like fellow game-show regular Paul Lynde of the same era, Reilly played up a campyon-screen persona. In many episodes of Match Game, he would lampoon himself by briefly affecting a deep voice and the nickname “Chuck,” and self-consciously describing how “butch” he was. He mentioned in a 2002 interview with Entertainment Tonight that he felt no need to note this and that he never purposely hid being gay from anyone. Patrick Hughes III, a set decorator and dresser, was Reilly’s domestic partner; the two met backstage while Reilly appeared on the game show Battlestars. They lived in Beverly Hills.^[6] Despite sporting what appeared to be a full head of hair for most of the prime of his career, Reilly was in fact bald, wearing a toupée throughout most of his appearances in the 1970s and 1980s. During the taping of Match Game 74 his toupee became the joke of the filming when Reilly had to go to NYC to have his toupee put back on. During the taping of several episodes Reilly is seen wearing different hats because his toupée is back in NY waiting for him to be fitted. This was the start of the long-running jokes on Match Game about his hair. He abandoned the toupée in the late 1990s and appeared bald in public for the rest of his life. He dramatized the experience in his stage show, The Life of Reilly.

Reilly primarily spent his life touring the country directing theater and opera, and offering audiences a glimpse into his background and personal life with a critically acclaimed one-man play chronicling his life called Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly. In 2004, his final performance of the play was filmed as the basis for an autobiographical independent film titled The Life of Reilly.^[7] Reilly was ill with respiratory problems, while filming The Life of Reilly, and retired from directing and performing immediately after the final day of shooting. The show premiered in March 2006 at the South by Southwest film festival and Reilly’s performance in the film received great acclaim. Reilly canceled his personal appearance at South by Southwest due to illness and by the time the film premiered he had been hospitalized. Reilly died of pneumonia at his home on May 25, 2007 and his body was cremated.^[8] That weekend the Game Show Network was dedicated to Reilly, airing his funniest episodes of Match Game.

Victor “Vic” Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. Played diner owner Mel Sharples on the TV series “Alice”

A life member of The Actors Studio,^[3] Tayback was a familiar face on television in the 1960s and 70s, appearing on numerous shows as a character actor. Two notable appearances were in the “Et tu, Archie?” fourth season episode of All in the Family as Archie’s old friend, Joe Tucker, and as the alien gangster boss Jojo Krako in the Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action“.

Tayback’s most famous role was diner owner Mel Sharples in both the 1974 movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and in the television series, Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985. He was the only actor of the original film to reprise his role in the series. (Film co-star Diane Ladd joined Alice mid-series playing a different character, and Alfred Lutter reprised his film role as Tommy for the pilot episode only.)

Tayback also appeared in TV commercials including one for Aqua Velva after-shave lotion as a spectator in the stands who shouts at then-Cincinnati Reds third baseman Pete Rose ”Hey, Pete Rose! What does a man really want in an after-shave lotion?” Another humorous commercial portrayed Tayback as the annoyed owner of a new 1968 American Motors Javelin, saying “Get away from that car!” to a gang of toughs admiring the new muscle car.

One of Tayback’s last roles was in the 1989 video remake of the Buck Owens (and later The Beatles) hit “Act Naturally” which featured Owens and former Beatle Ringo Starr.

Tayback died at the age of sixty of a sudden heart attack in 1990 and was interred at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Tayback was survived by his wife Sheila, whom he married in 1962. They had one son, Christopher Tayback, who briefly acted before attending law school. Christopher is a partner at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles.

Gary Rich Burghoff (born May 24, 1943^[3]) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene “Radar” O’Reilly in the M*A*S*H movie and TV series.

Although several actors from the original MASH film made guest appearances in the television series, Burghoff was the only actor cast as a regular, continuing in the role of Radar O’Reilly. He left M*A*S*H after the seventh season because of burnout and a desire to spend more time with his family, though he returned the following year to film a special two-part farewell episode, “Goodbye Radar.” Mike Farrell tried to persuade Burghoff to stay on the show, citing the lacklustre careers of former M*A*S*H regulars Larry Linville and McLean Stevenson after their departures. Burghoff was nominated for six Emmy Awards for the show in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and, of those nominations, he won an Emmy in 1977.Covering the conclusion of M*A*S*H for TV Guide in 1983, Burt Prelutsky wrote, “Although nobody wanted to be quoted for the record, the feelings about Gary Burghoff’s leaving were fairly unanimous: loved Radar, hated Burghoff. As summed up by one of the principals: ‘Gary had personality problems. He always felt there was a conspiracy against him. He was rude to everyone, but if anyone ever said anything back to him, he’d throw a tantrum. He had frequent spats with his cast members, particularly with Alan Alda. Once his other cast member, Mike Farrell told him that his problem was that he could dish it out but he couldn’t take it, and Gary said, “And I’m getting real sick and tired of dishing it out.” The poor guy didn’t even realize what he’d said.

Burghoff appeared regularly on TV, making appearances on other game shows as well like Tattletales, Hollywood Squares, and Showoffs. He also appeared in the film B.S. I Love You, as well as an episode of The Love Boat and Ellery Queen. His M*A*S*H character Radar O’Reilly was spun off into an unsold TV show called W*A*L*T*E*R. Burghoff also appeared in an episode of The New Adventures of Wonder Woman ”The Man Who Wouldn’t Tell” in 1978, where he was reunited with his former band member Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman (played by Lynda Carter).

Burghoff is a self-taught amateur wildlife painter who is also qualified to handle injured wildlife in California.^[7] and has also worked as a professional jazz drummer, heading the trio The We Three (in the episode “Showtime,” Radar is seen playing a solo on the drums; it is a misconception that the sound was dubbed in; it was Gary Burghoff’s actual performance^[8]). Burghoff is also the inventor of (and holds a patent on) the “Chum Magic”, a fishing tackle invention that attracts fish toward the user’s boat.^[9][10] Other Burghoff inventions include a toilet seat lifting handle and a new type of fishing pole.^[11]

Burghoff is a philatelist^[12] and in 1993 Burghoff was asked to help pick a postal stamp for United States hunters.^[7] In 2000, Burghoff was also a spokesman for dot-com era auction aggregation site PriceRadar.com.^[13]

He came out of retirement in 2010 to star in the Christian movie release, Daniel’s Lot.^[14]

Thomas B. Kin “Tommy” Chong^[1] (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician. He is well known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox‘s That ’70s Show.

Chong was born as Thomas B. Kin Chong at University Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.^[2][3] His mother was Lorna Jean (née Gilchrist), a waitress of Scots-Irish and French ancestry,^[4] and his father was Stanley Chong, a Chinese truck driver who emigrated to Canada from China in the 1920s, where he first lived with his aunt in Vancouver.^[5][6][7] While he was still young, Chong’s family moved to Calgary, Alberta to a conservative neighbourhood Chong refers to as the Dog Patch. He says that his father had “been wounded in World War II, and there was a veterans’ hospital in Calgary. He bought a five-hundred dollar house in Dog Patch, and raised his family on fifty dollars a week.” He later dropped out of Crescent Heights High School in Calgary, Alberta. “I dropped out of Crescent Heights High School when I was 16 but probably just before they were going to throw me out anyway,” Chong laughs as he reminisces about his early years. “I played guitar to make money. I was about 16 when I discovered that music could get you laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.”^[3]

By the early 1960s, Chong was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called The Shades. The Shades moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the band’s name changed to “Little Daddy & The Bachelors”. They recorded a single, “Too Much Monkey Business” / “Junior’s Jerk”. Together with bandmember Bobby Taylor, Chong opened a Vancouver nightclub in 1963. Formerly the Alma Theatre, they called it “Blue Balls”. They brought in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which had never been to Vancouver before. Although Little Daddy & The Bachelors built up a small following, things soured when they went with Chong’s suggestion and had themselves billed as “Four Niggers and a Chink“.^[8] (or, bowing to pressure, “Four N’s and a C”) before taking on the monikerBobby Taylor & the Vancouvers.^[8]

In 1965, the Vancouvers signed with Gordy Records (a subsidiary of Detroit, Michigan‘s Motown Records) and recorded its debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition “Does Your Mama Know About Me,” peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[8] While on tour in Chicago for a short time, the band followed opening act The Jackson 5. Chong later referred to the young Michael Jackson as a “cute little guy”.^[9] After the band released two further singles, Tommy Chong and Wes Henderson were fired by Clark and Motown producer Johnny Bristol for missing a gig to apply for Green cards.^[10] The group broke up shortly afterwards, when Chong attempted to have the Vancouvers’ contract halved, so that he, Taylor, and Henderson would constitute the group, while other members would simply be regarded as sidemen and session artists.

Cheech & Chong, while a very successful comedy act, experienced creative differences and split in 1985. This was devastating to Chong. To him,Cheech Marin was “closer than a wife. The only thing we didn’t do was have sex.” Of their split, he says, “It was like a death in the family. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it”.^{[citation needed]} Chong was a recurring character and later a regular character as the hippie “Leo” during the second, third, fourth, seventh, and eighth seasons of That ’70s Show. He also played a role as a hippie in Dharma and Greg. In a 2001 episode of That ’70s Show, “Canadian Road Trip”, Chong gave tribute to his home country by joining in a spirited rendition of O Canada along with the teenage cast and two Canadian border patrol guards (Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas).^{[citation needed]}

Chong was originally going to voice the character of Shenzi, the hyena in the Disney film The Lion King, which would have had him performing once more with Cheech Marin, who voiced Banzai. (The Shenzi character was later changed to be female, and voiced instead by Whoopi Goldberg.) In September 2005 a/k/a Tommy Chong premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary, produced, written and directed by Josh Gilbert, chronicles Chong’s comedic and personal history, and his prosecution by the Justice Department. The project features interviews with Cheech Marin, Bill Maher, George Thorogood, Peter Coyote, Lou Adler, Eric Schlosser and Jay Leno. In 2011 he appeared in an ironic role as a Judge in an episode of Franklin & Bash, who took an extremely strict position on a marijuana holder.^[citatio

Chong was married to his first wife, Maxine Sneed, from 1960 until their divorce in 1970, with whom he had two daughters, Robbi and Rae Dawn. He married his second wife Shelby Fiddis in 1975. He has three children with her, sons Paris and Gilbran, and a daughter, Precious Chong. He is also the adoptive father of actor Marcus Chong. Robbi, Rae Dawn, Marcus and Precious have pursued careers in acting. In the late 1980s, Chong became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Rae Dawn Chong is also a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Tommy Chong is a marijuana activist and is a supporter of the use of marijuana.^[5] He is a regular contributor to Cannabis Culture Magazine and sits on the NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) advisory board.

He announced on June 9, 2012 he is battling prostate cancer. He described the cancer “as a slow stage one (that I’ve) had for a long time.” He said that he was drug free for about three years, during which time he began having prostate-related problems.^[11]

On July 15, 2012 Chong tweeted that the hemp oil he has been using to treat his cancer is working and that “he is 99% cancer free”.^[12]

While government officials denied that Chong was treated any differently from the other defendants, many felt that he was made an example of by the government. The San Francisco Chroniclereported Chong’s publicist Brandie Knight as saying the Chong family was shocked by the raid. “We’ve done everything the right way, and the government is saying there is no right way,” Knight said. Soon afterwards, civil rights advocates started the Free Tommy Chong! movement that called for his release. The controversy over Chong’s prosecution centered on the rationale behind focusing on Tommy as opposed to his son, Paris, the disparity in sentences that Tommy Chong received compared to other defendants, and the tactics that the DEA used in carrying out the investigation.^[13]

Paris, Tommy’s son, had started Nice Dreams in 1999. At the time of the allegations in the indictment, Paris was the CEO of the company that was the center of the investigation. Paris was never charged with a crime in relation to the investigation. When asked why the government had focused on Tommy as opposed to the company’s CEO, Paris, US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan responded that “Tommy Chong was the more responsible corporate officer because he financed and marketed the product.”^[13]

Of the 55 people targeted in the investigation, Chong was the only one without previous convictions who received jail time.^[13] When questioned on the disparity between sentences/fines that the other 54 individuals received compared to Chong, US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan stated, “He (Tommy Chong) wasn’t the biggest supplier. He was a relatively new player, but he had the ability to market products like no other.”^[15]

In investigating the operations of Nice Dreams, federal agents posed as head-shop owners from Pittsburgh’s suburban Beaver County and pled with Paris to sell them his pipes through the mail to a fictitious shop in suburban Beaver Falls. Paris had set in place a company prohibition against selling to Pittsburgh or anywhere in Western Pennsylvania.^[13] The prohibition was put in place in response to the successful federal prosecution of Akhil Kumar Mishra and his wife, Rajeshwari, whose two head shops sold drug paraphernalia in the city’s downtown.^[13] To date, it is unclear how the prohibition was broken and there exist differing accounts as to who broke the company policy which resulted in the action that brought about the ability of the US Attorney to argue that jurisdiction for the crime rests in Pittsburgh opposed to California, the base of operations for Nice Dreams.^[13] Tommy Chong has stated publicly that it was a Federal Agent posing as an employee of his son’s company who accepted and processed the order that resulted in the prosecution.

Aftermath [edit]

Since his release, Chong has been an avid critic of the case that has been brought against him. In December 2004, Chong was to appear in an off-Broadway show entitled The Marijuana-Logues, a parody of Eve Ensler‘s The Vagina Monologues. His legal concerns, including members of the audiences smoking marijuana, ultimately caused him to cancel the show.^[16] In 2006, Chong wrote a book about his experiences in jail and his interest in meditation, called The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint (ISBN 1-4169-1554-0).

In 2010, Chong and Cyril Wecht appeared at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to oppose the United States Attorney who prosecuted him, Mary Beth Buchanan, who was running for the United States House of Representatives as a Republican.^[17] She was defeated in the Republican primary.

Seizure of a/k/a Tommy Chong DVDs [edit]

On May 7, 2008, federal agents raided Spectrum Labs in an investigation related to Spectrum Labs’ “detoxification” products. The raid, one of nine during the day, was part of Operation True Test, an investigation being led by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Mary Beth Buchanan. The investigation targeted companies that sell so-called “masking products” that are supposed to help drug-users pass employer drug tests. There is, however, no federal law barring such products; they are regulated on a state-by-state basis. Of the nine search warrants issued, none were for businesses within Buchanan’s district.^[18]

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in executing their search warrant, the federal agents seized 8,000-10,000 copies of the yet-to-be released documentary, a/k/a Tommy Chong.^[19] It has yet to be determined why the DVDs were seized during the raid. Furthermore, Chong has stated he has not been charged with any crime. In a statement released to the press, Chong stated “[The seizure of the DVDs is] a way to punish the distributor financially. There’s no way to get the DVDs back until the investigation is over.” Chong also stated that he has no ownership of the film,a/k/a Tommy Chong.

In retraction of its original story, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette stated, “8,000 to 10,000 copies of a Tommy Chong documentary were not seized in the raid. Instead, an “undisclosed number of DVD was taken”. The government is not required to disclose why the DVDs were taken as the raid was part of “an ongoing investigation”. This story as originally published May 11, 2008 was amended.”^[18]

Jackie “Moms” Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was an American standup comedian and a pioneer of the so-called “Chitlin’ Circuit” of African-American vaudeville.

Comedian popular on TV variety shows in the 1960s, known for her stage persona as a frumpy, world-wise older woman who was always looking for a younger man, she was a regular at the Apollo Theater for 30 years
Her exact date of birth is subject to considerable debate

Whitman Blount Mayo (November 15, 1930 – May 22, 2001) was an American actor best known for his character Grady Wilson on the 1970s television sitcom Sanford and Son.

In the late 1960s, while working for the New Lafayette Theater, Norman Lear offered Mayo a part as Grady Wilson on Sanford and Son. His portrayal of Grady Wilson caught on and he lasted through the entire duration of the show. He opened a travel agency in Inglewood, California. Mayo would later star in the unsuccessful spin-off, Grady, in which his character moved in with his daughter and her husband in Beverly Hills. After the cancellation of Grady after only ten episodes in 1976, Mayo and the Grady character returned to Sanford and Son, where they remained for the duration of the series’ run until its cancellation by NBC in 1977. Mayo also reprised the role in the unsuccessful 1977 NBC-TV spinoff series Sanford Arms opposite actor Theodore Wilson, as well as for two episodes of Sanford, another NBC-TV Sanford and Son spinoff, this time opposite Redd Foxx and actor Dennis Burkley, in 1981.

Mayo’s character name, Grady Wilson, was the real name of the actor who played Lamont Sanford (Grady Demond Wilson).

Also in the late 1970s, Mayo appeared on the Los Angeles children’s television program That’s Cat, offering sage advice in a sweet manner to the main character, Alice.

In 1996, Late Night with Conan O’Brien spent several weeks trying to “find Grady,” and have Mayo appear on the show. The show aired a mock episode of Unsolved Mysteries.^[1] On February 8, 1996, Mayo finally appeared on Late Night, to much fanfare. ^[2][3][4]

Mayo also played a role in The Cape as Sweets, the owner of Moonshot Bar and Grill.

Although best known for his television work, Mayo made several film appearances, including The Main Event with Barbra Streisand, D.C. Cab, Boyz n the Hood and Waterproof with Burt Reynolds. Mayo also appeared as Reverend Banyon on the BET TV Movie Boycott in 2001 and in an episode of Martin. He also taught drama at Clark Atlanta University and hosted Liars and Legends on Turner South.

Mayo died of a heart attack, at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. He had resided in Atlanta’s Historic Collier Heights community, since 1994 and was survived by his children and by his third wife, Gail Mayo.

His son, Rahn Mayo, is currently a member of the Georgia House of Representatives^[5] representing House District 91. He is also survived by his daughters Tanya Mayo, Suni Mayo Simpson, and daughter Pangi Raysor and son Jon-Jo Raysor of Brooklyn, New York.^[6]

Judge Reinhold (born May 21, 1957) is an American actor, known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause trilogy.

Reinhold has appeared in more than 60 films. His first appearance on screen was in the Wonder Woman episode “Amazon Hot Wax” (1979), in which he played Jeff Gordon, a singer who gets caught up in an extortion ring in the music business.^{[citation needed]} Reinhold’s first major film role was as high school senior Brad Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) along with then-unknown actors Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nicolas Cage. He appeared in an uncredited role in Pat Benatar’s music video for “Shadows of the Night.” He later played Detective Billy Rosewood, the junior police detective sent to trail Eddie Murphy, in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), and in 1986, starred in Ruthless People.

Reinhold starred in the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem‘s 1992 music video “Honestly” as the male love interest.

In 1994, Reinhold appeared in Beverly Hills Cop III and The Santa Clause. He has reprised the role of Dr. Neil Miller for the Santa Clause sequels as well. Reinhold appeared as himself on two episodes of the third season of Arrested Development, headlining a fictional court TV show called Mock Trial with J. Reinhold.^{[citation needed]}

Reinhold was nominated for an Emmy for a role on Seinfeld in which he played the infamous “close talker” who developed an obsession with Jerry’s parents. He has also been seen in Steven Spielberg‘s epic miniseries Into the West. And replaced Charles Grodin in two direct-to-video movies in the Beethoven film series.

Reinhold was featured in the 2008 political satire Swing Vote.

Reinhold’s nickname “Judge” has been the subject of comedy in both Clerks: The Animated Series and Arrested Development, both times with him playing himself appointed as a judge in a court of law. Additionally, the 2009 film Fanboys features Billy Dee Williams playing a judge named Reinhold.^[4]

Reinhold is credited as the whistler on the Martini Ranch song “Reach.”^[citation

Howard “Howie” Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his roles in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass and George, the TV set repairman.

Morris was first heard in animated cartoons in the early 1960s. He and Allan Melvin teamed up for a 50-episode King Features Syndicate series, Beetle Bailey, for which he and Melvin also wrote a number of episodes. He also provided the voices for Gene Deitch‘s Academy Award-winning Munro, about a four-year-old boy who was drafted into the Army.

Beginning in 1962, Morris played a variety of voices in many Hanna-Barbera series including The Jetsons as “Jet Screamer” who sang the “Eep opp ork ah ah!” song,^[4] (said to be Morris’ first work for Hanna-Barbera) and The Flintstones. He was the original voice of Atom Ant and provided the voice of Mr. Peebles in the Magilla Gorilla series, teaming up again with Allan Melvin who performed the voice for Magilla. In another series Morris was heard as the voice of Breezly Bruin which was similar in tone with the Bill Scott vocalization of Bullwinkle. Morris had a disagreement with Joseph Barbera prior to production of the 1966-1967 season of Magilla Gorilla and Atom Ant and all of his voices were recast, mostly using Don Messick. Years later the two men reconciled and Morris was back doing those voices and others.

Morris also voiced the characters Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci in the animated series Galaxy High. Morris provided the original vocalizations for the Hamburglar (“Robble, robble, robble”) in McDonald’s 1971 ad campaign, which Morris also directed. He is also remembered by Filmation and Archie Show fans as the voice of Jughead Jones throughout the life of the franchise. Morris also played Wade Duck in the U.S. Acres segment of Garfield and Friends. He played Flem in the Cartoon Network series Cow & Chicken. Morris supplied the voice of the koala in TV commercials for Qantas from 1967 through 1992 (saying the tagline, “I hate Qantas”).^[5]

Mel Brooks occasionally cast Morris in his films. For example, he played Brooks’ mentor psychiatrist Dr. Lilloman in the 1977 comedy High Anxiety, the emperor’s court spokesman (“Here, wash this!”) in History of the World, Part I, and played a bum named Sailor living in the streets in 1991′s Life Stinks. In 1984, he played Dr. Zidell in Splash, a film directed by Ron Howard (the two had first worked together on The Andy Griffith Show). He did a brilliant turn with his old friend and trouping partner Sid Caesar as nervous Jewish tailors in the 1998 movie of Ray Bradbury‘s The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

In 1986, he reprised his famous role as Ernest T. Bass in the high-rated TV movie Return to Mayberry. Morris also directed some episodes on Hogan’s Heroes.

In 1994, Morris voiced Zinn-a-Zu the Bird, Garfield the Third Fish, the Sneetches and Mr. Fox in Storybook Weaver, and later in 2004, remade as Storybook Weaver Deluxe.

Near his death, he played Flem on Cow and Chicken.

Mr. T^[1] (born Laurence Tureaud; May 21, 1952) is an American actor known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and for his appearances as a professional wrestler. Mr. T is known for his trademark African Mandinka warrior hairstyle,^[2] his gold jewelry, and his tough-guy image. In 2006 he starred in the reality show I Pity the Fool, shown on TV Land, the title of which comes from the catchphrase of his Lang character.