Helen Elizabeth Hunt 

Actress and director.Helen is the recipient of numerous
accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime
Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

Hunt rose to fame portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom
Mad About You (1992–1999, 2019), which earned her three
Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television
Series – Musical or Comedy and four Primetime Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring
as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It
Gets (1997), while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in
The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Blocker was a high-school English and drama teacher in
Sonora,  Texas, from 1953 to 1954, a sixth-grade teacher
and coach at Eddy Elementary School in Carlsbad, New
Mexico, and then a teacher in California. Blocker and his
wife Dolphia, moved to Los Angeles where he secured
some acting roles.          

Blocker (center) playing football at Sul
Ross University in 1946.       
     

Blocker was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War
where he served as an infantry sergeant from December 1951
to August 1952. He received a Purple Heart, for wounds in
combat, and several service medals.  

In 1957, Blocker appeared in a Three Stooges short, Outer
Space Jitters, playing the Goon, billed as "Don Blocker". He
made two  appearances on Gunsmoke (CBS) as a blacksmith.

       
   
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972)

Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022)

Philip Baker Hall, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable
character actors, has died at the age of 90. He was best
known today for his roles on “Seinfeld” and in the films
of Paul Thomas Anderson. The news was first announced
by Hall’s neighbor and friend, Los Angeles sports writer
Sam Farmer, on Twitter. Hall died from emphysema at his
home in Glendale, California.

Mr. Moon began as a radio show in the early 1950s and debuted
on  KOIN-TV November 16, 1953, one month after the station went
on the air. The final show aired in 1958.


       
Ed Leahy (below) played Mr. Moon and Wonder Bread was one of
the sponsors of Mr. Moon.      

Ron Howard as the young boy Jamie with James Arness as
Dodge City Marshal Matt Dillon in the 1969 episode “Charlie
Noon” on Gunsmoke (CBS-TV).

Ronald William Howard turned 68 in March.