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ACTOR DON GRADY HAS DIED AT 68

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1962 high school photo 

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       Don Grady (Don Agrati, June 8, 1944-June 27, 2012)

Grady, who was an original Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse
Club
who played son Robbie Douglas on the ABC and CBS
sitcom My Three Sons, one of the longest-running family
sitcoms in history, died today in Thousand Oaks, Calif.,
after a battle with cancer. He was 68.

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JUNE LOCKHART IS 87 TODAY

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June Lockhart
Hollywood Collectors and Celebrities Show presented by Ray Courts and Sharon Courts held at the Hilton Burbank Airport Hotel and Convention Center
Burbank, California - 14.010.06
Credit: Rachel Worth / WENN
[Photo via Newscom] wennphotos401158_collectors_celebs_18_wenn895867.jpg

June Lockhart is primarily known as a 1950s and 1960 TV
actress, best remembered as the mother in two television
series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also played Dr. Janet
Craig on the CBS-TV sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968-1970).

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lost in space

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JOHN GOODMAN TURNED 60 TODAY

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John Stephen Goodman is a popular film, television, and 
stage actor. He is best known for his role as
Dan Conner 
on the ABC television series Roseanne (1988-1997) for 
which he won a
Best Actor Golden Globe Award in 1993.

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HOLIDAY!

fathers-day

Father’s Day was founded in 1910 by
Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas
from Spokane, who was also the driving force behind its establishment. It
was first celebrated in
Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.

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Robert Young as a great TV dad!

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‘GREEN ACRES’ ACTOR IS DEAD AT 96

  1990 file photo of actor Frank Cady for obit. Cady in character as storekeeper Sam Drucker in "Return to Green Acres." For obit. 

                       Frank Cady (September 8, 1915 – June 8, 2012)

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