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COMEDIAN DIED ON THIS DAY IN 2003

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Art Carney 1977

                            Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney

                         (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003)

 

Art Carney is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason‘s
Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners on the CBS
television network from 1955 to 1956.

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Art Carney stars as a department store Santa in the Twilight Zone
episode “Night Of The Meek” (1960)

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DORIS ROBERTS IS 87 TODAY

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Doris Roberts Green has received five Emmy Awards during
her acting career, which began in 1952. She is best-known for
her role
as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS
television
from 1996 to 2005.

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Ray Romano and Doris Roberts in Everybody Loves Raymond

 

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JACKIE COOGAN, BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1914

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Jackie Coogan in The Addams Family

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  John Leslie Coogan
(October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984)

Coogan began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Years
later, he became known as Uncle Fester on the ABC sitcom The  
Addams Family (1964 – 1966).

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS 74 TODAY

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Christopher Lloyd, High School yearbook

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Christopher Allen Lloyd played Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the
Future
trilogy (1985 – 1990), He rose to fame in the 1980s as Jim
Ignatowski
in the television series Taxi (ABC, 1978 – 1982 & NBC,
(1982 – 1983).

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Christopher Lloyd as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest,
1975
. His first motion picture role.

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Lloyd in Taxi

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Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future

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PAM DAWBER IS NOW 61

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Pam Dawber
played Mindy McConnell in the ABC television
sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978-1982).    

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                                  Robin Williams and Pam Dawber

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