Karl Held? Larry Tate on Bewitched? Chatsworth?
Stanley Engel
at the office in addition to Paul Drake, Della Street and Perry Mason.
That was the character of David Gideon, played by Karl Held. David
Gideon was a handsome young lawyer type who offered tidbits of wisdom
to Perry.
I guess the producers felt they needed a stud to boost ratings, but
Karl Held was not appropriate for the part. His acting was rather
wooden and appeared forced. Moreover, it appeared that the other cast
members did not appreciate his intrusion into the show. It appeared
that there was a genuine chemistry between Raymond Burr, William Hopper
and Barbara Hale, but I got the impression that they all wanted Karl
Held out. In any case, Karl Held (David Gideon) was dropped after
awhile.
Karl Held appeared to be about 25 when he was on the Perry Mason show,
about 1960. So if he's still alive, he'd be 65 or so. Is he around?
What happened to his acting career?
Also, is the guy who played Larry Tate on "Bewitched" around? I
understand he died years ago? How about the guy who played rich kid
Chatsworth Osborn Jr. on "Dobey Gillis"? Last I saw, he made some truly
awful time traveling movie.
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>understand he died years ago?
AS the IMDB link showed, David White died of a heart attack in 1990. I believe
I have read that the heart attack occurred after he was hit by a car- but cant
be sure of that as I dont recall where I read it. Anyone know? Also- his son
Jonathan White died in airline accident in Dec 1988- I am presuming but not
certain that it was probably Lockerbie. It couldnt have been coincidental that
Larry Tate's son on the show was also named Jonathan..
J.D. Baldwin
<bal...@aol.com> wrote:
> AS the IMDB link showed, David White died of a heart attack in
> 1990. I believe I have read that the heart attack occurred after he
> was hit by a car- but cant be sure of that as I dont recall where I
> read it. Anyone know? Also- his son Jonathan White died in airline
> accident in Dec 1988- I am presuming but not certain that it was
> probably Lockerbie. It couldnt have been coincidental that Larry
> Tate's son on the show was also named Jonathan..
Yes, White's son was a victim of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie,
Scotland. Someone who knew White slightly posted here that he was
extremely bitter over that right up to his death. Very sad.
Unfortunately, the two human jackals who orchestrated this act of
mass murder can't, even theoretically, receive the death penalty.
[No, no, I'm sorry, I take it back!]
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UsurperTom
>Unfortunately, the two human jackals who orchestrated this act of
>mass murder can't, even theoretically, receive the death penalty.
We should also kill that motherfucker Qadafi. If these two scumbags were
intelligence agents, Qadafi obviously had a hand in it.
Tom
Jim Beaver
J.D. Baldwin <bal...@netcom.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, White's son was a victim of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie,
> Scotland. Someone who knew White slightly posted here that he was
> extremely bitter over that right up to his death. Very sad.
David White was a very close friend. We had been members of the company at
Theatre West in Hollywood for many years together. He and I were rehearsing
the parts of father and son in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. I called him
to talk about the rehearsal schedule, got his machine, left a message. That
evening his daughter called to tell me that David had died of a heart attack
that morning, before I had called. (He was never hit by a car, at least in
all the years I knew him).
When his son Jonathan died over Lockerbie, David was distraught, as any
parent would be, but he was furious, more furious than I had ever seen him,
at the U.S. government's failure to pass on to passengers its awareness of a
terrorist danger at that time. He took out ads in Variety blaming President
Reagan and the CIA, and Jonathan's memorial service was made even sadder by
David's angry eulogy. It took him a long, long time to return to even a
semblance of his normal life. He had just begun to come out again, to
participate in theatre and social activities, after two or three years, when
he died suddenly, almost on the anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. He
and I, as I mentioned, were planning to do LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
with him as James Tyrone, Betty Garrett as Mary Tyrone, Betty's son Andrew
Parks as Edmund, and myself as Jamie Tyrone. I had long dreamed of doing
this play, and this cast would have been a great joy for me. David was
utterly brilliant in it, the perfect marriage of actor and role. But.....
it never happened. David's gone and the rest of us are now too old for the
roles. I wouldn't care about losing out on the play if it would bring David
back, as he was a delightful, curmudgeonly fellow with great warmth under a
bristly hide, a superb actor and director, and a sweet and giving friend.
Jim Beaver