Name some living cast members of early tv shows

[Kaleva]

My offering is Joe and Mike Mayer. Twins who both played the role of Little Ricky for 3 years on the hit tv show "I love Lucy".

http://www.idahopress.com/community/little-ricky-twins-now-live-in-gem-county/article_f53582bd-95bd-5feb-b45e-606b372a2fb8.html

[skylucy]

1. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore....The Dick Van Dyke Show!

[rurallib]

11. Dick's brother Jerry from "My Mother the Car"

don't make them like that anymore.

[Skittles]

55. Mary just passed

[skylucy]

57. Hi Skittles.I can't believe it. She was one of my favorites. Loved her in The Dick Van Dyke Show and

then in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[Skittles]

58. I made the comment

she meant so much to us "gals of certain age"

you just didn't see independent women that much on TV, and certainly not weekly (Nichelle Nichols playing Uhura was my other favorite, long with Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty)

[meadowlark5]

2. Elinor Donahue (Mary) from Father Knows Best

Her on tv brother Billy Anderson (Bud) is still alive too

[rurallib]

5. Wasn't she Betty and her "brother" was Bud

[meadowlark5]

6. Yes, you are correct!

Mary was the daughter on the Donna Reed show, I think.

I need to go look and see if she's still alive. Off to wikipedia.

[meadowlark5]

9. Shelly Fabares was Mary on Donna Reed.

Her brother on the show Paul Petersen is still alive too.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. Paul Peterson started A Minor Consideration, an organization

that supports child actors and other child professionals.

[rurallib]

10. Shelly Fabres and her real life aunt Nanette Fabre (also on Coach(

Fairly sure both are still alive

[meadowlark5]

15. It's Nanette Fabray with a different spelling

So no relation. I remember Nanette Fabray mostly from all of the variety shows on tv. She is still alive and is 96!

[Kittycow]

31. Aunt and Niece but spelled differently .

[meadowlark5]

33. Hmm.. I wonder why

Probably helped somehow in the world of Hollywood. Thanks, for letting me know that tidbit.

[Kittycow]

37. That made me curious about the spelling difference. ..

All I could find was that Shelley kept the original family name and that Nanette changed it. So we both learned some Hollywood trivia

[WinkyDink]

40. Well, today we have Emilio Estevez and his brother Charlie Sheen, Dad's original and Show-Biz names.

[meadowlark5]

42. Wow. I just went and looked because Emilio's name made me wonder

Did you know Martin Sheen's birth name is Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez? Emilio and Charlie's mom's name is Janet Sheen. That's where the Sheen came from.

[WinkyDink]

43. Yes, I did know about Ramon/Martin; hence, my post!

[meadowlark5]

44. Well, thanks

I didn't know anything about them. I just know them as actors and never game them much thought past that.

[meadowlark5]

3. Of course Wally and the Beaver

[rurallib]

4. Would Ron Howard count? Is he early enough. And Betty White of course

A nearby community college plays her very early "Life With Elizabeth" from time to time

[Kaleva]

7. In addition to Ron Howard from the Andy Griffith Show, there is Jim Nabors.

[rurallib]

8. Nabors is still alive? Wow

[exboyfil]

13. Four years ago he got to marry his partner

Hopefully that will not change in the future.

https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/report-says-jim-nabors-marries-partner-in-seattle/

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. Not Wow, Gaaa-aaalll-lee!

[Va Lefty]

60. Also Betty Lynn who played Thelma Lou she's 90

[PSPS]

12. Carl Reiner turns 95 in March and has worked in TV since the 40's.

Also, Mel Brooks turns 91 in June and started as a writer for "Your show of shows" in 1950. He started appearing in front of the TV camera on The Steve Allen Show in 1961.

[Kaleva]

14. Larry Storch who played Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop

He went to high school with life long friend Don Adams and served on a submarine tender ship, the USS Proteus, in the Navy during WWII with Tony Curtis.

"Future actors Tony Curtis – whose birth name was Bernard Schwartz – and Larry Storch were aboard Proteus at Tokyo Bay in August–September 1945 – and watched much of the formal surrender activities aboard USS Missouri from Proteus's signal bridge"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Proteus_(AS-19)

[doc03]

16. Paul Peterson "Dona Reed Show" Johny Crawford "The Rifleman"

[UTUSN]

17. Too easy: Betty WHITE (is that her real surname?)

[LeftInTX]

23. Yes and Betty is her real first name. (not Elizabeth)

[unc70]

18. Barbara Hale - Della Street in Perry Mason

94 now.

[Chipper Chat]

19. Johnny Crawford of The Rifleman (1958)

Was first a mousekateer on Mickey Mouse Club. Now he conducts his own jazz orchestra.

[Kaleva]

20. Tom Lester played the character Eb Dawson on Green Acres

I think he's the only surviving cast member from that show.

[Brother Buzz]

22. Johnny Crawford discovered and help launch Victoria Jackson's career

[jmowreader]

45. Being around Chuck Connors' wingnuttiness at an impressionable age will do that to a guy

[Brother Buzz]

46. I can accept that, but Victoria Jackson?

[jmowreader]

47. Yeah, that is like falling off the edge of the Grand Canyon

[True Dough]

21. I hope this thread isn't like the Sports Illustrated jinx

Old "living" celebrities get named here and then the worst happens...

[LeftInTX]

24. Hugh Downs

[Brother Buzz]

25. Sheila Kuehl played Zelda Gilroy on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"

UCLA (go Bruins), graduated during the final season
Harvard Law School
California State Assembly (term limited)
California State Senate (term limited)
Los Angeles County Supervisor

[PufPuf23]

50. The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis has a wealth of still living actors.

Tuesday Weld (my long time crush!)
Dwayne Hickman
Warren Beatty
Michael J Pollard

[Brother Buzz]

53. I regret they didn't write Pollard in permanently when Denver failed his Army physical and returned

Hell, if they were smart, they would have spun off Maynard G. Krebs and cousin Jerome into another TV show, but apparently Michael J. Pollard was just to quirky for the writers.

[Doreen]

26. Jon Provost-Timmy-Lassie

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. John Astin and Lisa Loring (Wednesday) of The Adams Family

are still living.

John Astin had a long career as an actor and then taught drama for many years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He may still. He's 86.

Lisa Loring is 58. She was on a soap for a few years. She's had 4 marriages (including one for 5 years to 80s porn star Jerry Butler) and had a heroin addiction in her 30s.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. Sherry Jackson and Angela Cartwright, the daughters of Make Room For Daddy

Sherry Jackson is 74. She retired from acting in 1980.

Angela Cartwright is 64. She only had occassional cameos since the 80s. She's now a professional photographer.

Rusty Hamer, who played their brother, was never able to get a career going as an adult. He killed himself in 1990 at age 42.

[Kittycow]

32. Billy Mumy

....brought to mind by Angela Cartwright since they were both on Lost in Space. But he'll always be the Cornfield Wish Kid to me from the classic Twilight Zone episode.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Cloris Leachman was in that episode too.

[Kittycow]

38. Oh yeah. ..I love seeing her pop up on the retro TV stations I watch!

[ZoltarSpeaks]

34. Harry Shearer in original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

The episode was entitled "The Night the World Ended" from 1957. I spotted him right away even though he was around 14 at the time.

And he had been acting for 4 years already.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. The Honeymooners: Joyce "Trixie Norton" Randolph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Randolph

[Skittles]

39. Bob Barker

JEEZ, I remember seeing him on TV over 50 years ago

[pressbox69]

41. The 90 year young

Phyllis Coates. The original Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman.

[R. P. McMurphy]

48. Dawn Wells and Tina Louise

from Gilligan's Island.

Robert Clary from Hogan's Heroes.

[Mendocino]

49. Jethro Bodine-Max Baer

Best brain surgeon/fry cook/double ought spy in TV history.

[Wolf Frankula]

51. Dwayne Hickman

Chuck on the "Bob Cummings Show" in 1955-59 and then Dobie Gillis from 1959-63.

Wolf

[Tom Kitten]

52. Sally Field, "Gidget"...

Tim Conway from McHales Navy, etc.
Ken Osmond, "Eddie Haskell" from Leave It To Beaver
Johnny Whittaker and Kathy Garver from "Family Affair"
Jay North, "Dennis the Menace"...
June Lockhart, Lassie's mom!

[Golden Raisin]

54. Barbara Eden ("I Dream of Jeannie")

Carol Burnett (goes all the way back to "The Gary Moore Show&quot
Bob Newhart

[sl8]

56. Mary Kay Stearns, in "Mary Kay and Johnny", the first program to show a couple sharing a bed ...

and the first series to show a woman's pregnancy on television:
(1947 - 1950)
Mary Kay Stearns:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_and_Johnny

Mary Kay and Johnny:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Stearns

I didn't know any of the preceeding (?) until today. Thank you, OP, for the stimulus to research.

[Va Lefty]

59. Barbara Feldon Agent 99 from Get Smart

She's 83

[raccoon]

61. Kathleen Nolan (Kate) and Lydia Reed (Hassie) of the Real McCoys. nt