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Don Knotts on the live soap opera ‘Search for Tomorrow’

Don Knotts’ first role on television was on the CBS soap opera
Search for Tomorrow from 1953-54. His character was named
Wilbur Peterson, a neurotic guy who didn’t talk much. He would
only speak to one person, his sister. it was Don’s first and only
serious professional role.

Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006)

Charles Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021)

Grodin died from bone marrow cancer at his home in
Wilton, Connecticut.

Virginia Christine (Virginia Christine Ricketts)
(March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996)

Stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress
Christine had along career as a character actress
in film and television, she is best remembered
as “Mrs. Olson” (or the “Folger’s Coffee Woman”)
in a string of television commercials for the coffee
company during the 1960’s and ‘70s.  She died at
her Brentwood home of cardiovascular disease.

TIM MAGUIRE

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)