Eric Fleming (Rawhide's Gil Favor)
MICHELLE HUSKINS
I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
Thanks for any help.
Allan B. Huskins Jr.
husk...@nevada.edu
Bert D. Dodds
In article <4oe7fj$a...@news.nevada.edu> husk...@nevada.edu (MICHELLE HUSKINS) writes:
>From: husk...@nevada.edu (MICHELLE HUSKINS)
>Subject: Eric Fleming (Rawhide's Gil Favor)
>Date: 28 May 1996 06:46:11 GMT
>Thanks for any help.
I think that's correct. And Rawhide lasted at least one season beyond
Fleming's death with Rowdy Yates in charge.
Brad Ferguson
In article <4oe7fj$a...@news.nevada.edu>, husk...@nevada.edu (MICHELLE
HUSKINS) wrote:
> I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
> filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
> correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
>
> Thanks for any help.
All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME for
a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
RAWHIDE by at least some years.
RAWHIDE's still running on the fX cable network. It's pretty good. All
that hamburger!
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Brad Ferguson
> >I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
> >filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
> >correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
> I think that's correct. And Rawhide lasted at least one season beyond
> Fleming's death with Rowdy Yates in charge.
Boyu oh boy. First, I was wrong about Eric Fleming having been a guest on
ONE DAY AT A TIME. That's what I get for depending on memory. It was a
look-alike actor named Howard Morton.
Brooks & Marsh's TV Directory indicates Clint Eastwood was given the lead
role on RAWHIDE in the fall of 1965 in an effort to save the aging series,
but that it was cancelled in January 1966. (Clint's character, Rowdy
Yates, was made trail boss, and he hired a whole new bunch of hands,
retaining only Wishbone -- the whiskery cook, not the PBS dog -- and one
other.) There's no mention of Fleming's death causing the change, or any
mention of Fleming's death at all.
Cinemania says Fleming's last film was the Doris Day vehicle THE GLASS
BOTTOM BOAT (1966).
Lance Wong
In alt.obituaries on 28 May 1996 06:46:11 GMT, husk...@nevada.edu
(Allan B. Huskins Jr.) wrote:
>I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
>filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
>correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
Fleming drowned in 1965. "Rawhide" was still in production, so
Fleming's costar Clint Eastwood replaced him.
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"Rollin', rollin', rollin'..."
Robert Larry Morris
>
> > I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
> > filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
> > correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
> >
>
> All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME for
> a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
> RAWHIDE by at least some years.
>
> RAWHIDE's still running on the fX cable network. It's pretty good. All
> that hamburger!
>
> Stop by and set a spell at http://www.fred.net/thirteen/
Mr. Fleming died on September 28 1966 while filming a movie scene in Peru.
The Gnome
*The floggings will continue until moral improves.*
Bert D. Dodds
>All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME for
>a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
>RAWHIDE by at least some years.
No, he certainly did not, but it is an interesting picture. He died well
before the end of Rawhide, well before the beginning of ODAAT, but I can
picture the guy you're refering to.
Denise Perry
>Subject: Re: Eric Fleming (Rawhide's Gil Favor)
>Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 15:47:43 -0400
>In article <4oe7fj$a...@news.nevada.edu>, husk...@nevada.edu (MICHELLE
>HUSKINS) wrote:
>> I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
>> filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
>> correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME for
>a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
>RAWHIDE by at least some years.
WRONG! Maybe you're confusing Eric Fleming with Rick Jason or some other
actor who looked like him, but Fleming drowned while making a movie in South
America before Rawhide stopped running.
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Brad Ferguson
> In alt.obituaries on 28 May 1996 06:46:11 GMT, husk...@nevada.edu
> (Allan B. Huskins Jr.) wrote:
>
> >I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide, drowned while
> >filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone confirm this or
> >correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was still in production?
>
> Fleming drowned in 1965. "Rawhide" was still in production, so
> Fleming's costar Clint Eastwood replaced him.
No. I'll repost my info here, because my news server went belly-up
overnight. In fact, RAWHIDE (which was cancelled in January 1966) was out
of production when Fleming died, as you'll see below.
> Eric Fleming of RAWHIDE drowned September 28, 1966 while filming in Peru.
> He was 41 years old.
>
> This means that his death did not force the casting changes on RAWHIDE.
> Those changes were made during the summer of 1965.
Brad Ferguson
In article <bddodds.38...@students.wisc.edu>,
bdd...@students.wisc.edu (Bert D. Dodds) wrote:
> In article <thirteen-280...@thirteen.fred.net>
thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson) writes:
>
> >All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME for
> >a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
> >RAWHIDE by at least some years.
>
> No, he certainly did not, but it is an interesting picture. He died well
> before the end of Rawhide, well before the beginning of ODAAT, but I can
> picture the guy you're refering to.
Yeah, I blew that big-time. There's another message from me chasing
around the universe correcting myself. (The guy I was thinking of on ONE
DAY AT A TIME is named Howard Morton.)
Eric Fleming drowned September 28, 1966 at the age of 41 while filming in
Peru. RAWHIDE went off the air the previous January, so Eric actually
lived longer than the series. The switch to Clint Eastwood as the trail
boss in the fall of 1965 was solely an attempt to boost the show's
declining ratings. (Most of the secondary cast was replaced at the same
time.)
Brad Ferguson
In article <dperry.234...@uiuc.edu>, dpe...@uiuc.edu (Denise Perry)
wrote:
> WRONG! Maybe you're confusing Eric Fleming with Rick Jason or some other
> actor who looked like him, but Fleming drowned while making a movie in
South
> America before Rawhide stopped running.
Okay, Denise. No need to shout. I've corrected myself twice already.
(The actor I was thinkng of is named Howard Morton.)
Howeevr, Eric Fleming died nine months after RAWHIDE was cancelled.
Denise Perry
In article <thirteen-300...@thirteen.fred.net> thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson) writes:
>From: thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson)
>Subject: Re: Eric Fleming (Rawhide's Gil Favor)
>In article <dperry.234...@uiuc.edu>, dpe...@uiuc.edu (Denise Perry)
>wrote:
>> WRONG! Maybe you're confusing Eric Fleming with Rick Jason or some other
>> actor who looked like him, but Fleming drowned while making a movie in
>South
>> America before Rawhide stopped running.
>Okay, Denise. No need to shout. I've corrected myself twice already.
>(The actor I was thinkng of is named Howard Morton.)
>Howeevr, Eric Fleming died nine months after RAWHIDE was cancelled.
OK, I was WRONG on that last point. Are we even?
Smalljas
>I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide,
>drowned while filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone
>confirm this or correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was
>still in production?
I, too, read this somewhere, but for the life of me can't remember
where. I seem to recall it was from injuries sustained after a
boating accident around C. or S. America, but I, too, would be
interested in hearing from someone who knows the straight dope.
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In article <bddodds.38...@students.wisc.edu>,
bdd...@students.wisc.edu (Bert D. Dodds) writes:
>>All I can tell you is that Eric Fleming appeared on ONE DAY AT A TIME
for
>>a while as the father of one of the girls' boyfriends, so he survived
>>RAWHIDE by at least some years.
>
>No, he certainly did not, but it is an interesting picture. He died well
>before the end of Rawhide, well before the beginning of ODAAT, but I can
>picture the guy you're refering to.
The guy on One Day At A Time was Joseph Campanella (sp?).
A Free Spirit
Bert D. Dodds
>The guy on One Day At A Time was Joseph Campanella (sp?).
>A Free Spirit
No (tho this is certainly important)...J. Campanella played Ann Romano's ex-
husband, not the father of a boyfriend of one of the girls...It is almost
shameful that I would know, but I was busy flunking out of college at the
time.......BD
Brad Ferguson
In article <4ot03c$2ah$3...@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>, Smalljas
<10057...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
> >I understand Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor on Rawhide,
> >drowned while filming a movie down in South America. Can anyone
> >confirm this or correct me? Also, did he die while Rawhide was
> >still in production?
>
> I, too, read this somewhere, but for the life of me can't remember
> where. I seem to recall it was from injuries sustained after a
> boating accident around C. or S. America, but I, too, would be
> interested in hearing from someone who knows the straight dope.
We finally got it all straightened out. Eric Fleming drowned while
filming in Peru on September 28, 1966, nine months after RAWHIDE left the
air. Fleming's trail boss character (Gil Favor) had been replaced by
Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates for that last half-season, and the switch
predated Fleming's death by more than a year.
Brad Ferguson
In article <bddodds.38...@students.wisc.edu>,
Boy, my news server (which had kittens last weekend) is still dredging all
this up, even after two weeks. Amazing. Maybe Eric is haunting it, like
that bedsheet pressing machine in the Stephen King story, "The Mangler."
Hey! The Wrangler! It's true, it's true! Aagh!
Floyd L. Reid
In article <thirteen-070...@thirteen.fred.net>,
thir...@fred.net says...
Don't knowif its true or not. But I remember that Eric Fleming was eaten
by Pirahna while on location in So.or Cen.America. And that drowning was
the less grusome for the press back then. I'm probley wrong but thought I
would toss it in.