Ray Combs & other hosts who appeared in movies
James Dobrovicz
dramas on anthology shows in the 1950s. I had a list of them, but it dumped
with my hard drive a few weeks ago.
Also, given that Geoff Edwards appeared in a few television shows in acting
roles (Petticoat Junction comes to mind, as does the Bobby Darin show of
1972-73), I wonder if he didn't do some movies too.
--James C. Dobrovicz
TGBromley wrote in message <19990417215201...@ng139.aol.com>...
>Scott Alan Temple pondered:
>
>>
>>By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies
that
>>game show hosts have appeared in?
>
>Two off the top of my head:
>
>"Airplane 2: The Sequel" -- Art Fleming
>(Didn't Pat Sajak appear in one or the other of the Airplane movies as a
>newscaster?)
>
>"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" -- Robert Q. Lewis (he
acts!
> he sings! he dances!) and George Fenneman (he hosts)
>
>
>Tom Bromley
>tgbr...@aol.com
KAREN O'SHEA
American Success Company" back in 1979. Jeff Bridges was the star.
Encore has shown that movie.
Karen O'Shea
de...@viptx.net
know this already, (I did), but Ray Combs has a short cameo in the beginning
of the film as a cop at Elk Cove Hospital. The 1987 film stars Goldie Hawn
and Kurt Russell and is featured in the widescreen format. It is a very good
film. Just thought I'd let all of you know.
By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
game show hosts have appeared in? I can only think of three:
(1.) "Overboard" - (Ray Combs)
(2.) "Happy Gilmore" - (Bob Barker)
(3.) "The Running Man" - (Richard Dawson)
Scott Alan Temple
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And remember.....you can't spell Combs without CBS!
Raymond Neil Combs, Jr.
April 3, 1956 - June 2, 1996
Star of "Family Feud" on CBS & synd. for six great years from 1988-1994
He shall never be forgotten
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Bobbogong
game show hosts have appeared in?
Besides the obvious "Gong Show Movie", Chuck Barris also had a bit part in
Robert Downey Sr.'s 1997 film "Hugo Pool"....
Robert
TGBromley
>
>By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
>game show hosts have appeared in?
Two off the top of my head:
Mequirino
>From: tgbr...@aol.comNOSPAM
>>By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
>>game show hosts have appeared in?
>
Alex Trebek (cameo, J! host 1992)
WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP
starring: Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez
Pat Sajak (buffalo, ny anchorman)
AIRPLANE!
starring: an all-star cast
Bert Convy (an actor in movies too many to list down)
Bob Eubanks (doorbell man)
Arte Johnson (panel on a gameshow)
Jaye P. Morgan (panel on a gameshow)
Jaime Farr (panel on a gameshow)
HOME ALONE 2
Ahmad Rashad (cameo, sportscaster)
***note: Rashad hosted NBC "Caesar's Challenge" from 1993-94, but has been
famous today with NBC sportscastings since the 80's
BEST OF THE BEST
starring: James Earl Jones
Vanna White (cameo, at an academy awards)
THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3
Bill Cosby (many movies too long to list)
*** note: Cosby hosted "You Bet Your Life" from 1992.
SJim67
>(Didn't Pat Sajak appear in one or the other of the Airplane movies as a
>newscaster?)
Yes he did.
To add another one, if memory serves, Alex Trebek was in "White Men Can't
Jump". (Rosie Perez's character ends up winning tons of money on Jeopardy!)
I also remember John Davidson in "The Squeeze".
Phoebe9294
>acts! he sings! he dances!)
Lewis's film debut was an an announcer in "An Affair to Remember" (1958).
Besides "Business," he played himself on the panel of "What's My Perversion?"
in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask"
(1972) with Jack Barry as host and Regis Philbin as a copanelist, "Good
Neighbor Sam" with Jack Lemmon, something called "Ski Party" (1964) that was a
beach movie on snow, "HAWMPS" (1979), some weird Western the name of which
escapes me and finally some soft-porn somethingorother called "My Chauffeur"
(1986), which was his last film. A 1954 interview said he wanted to remake "The
Freshman," but Harold Lloyd wouldn't relinquish the rights to the film.
Larry Blyden also did three movies, two in 1957 ("The Bachelor Party," real
good in a best-friend role with a Pesci voice, and "Kiss Them For Me") and "On
a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970) as Streisand's nerdy fiance, presumably
not playing his real age (he was 45 playing a recent business school grad and
she was 28 playing a 22-year-old).
"My wife doesn't write on the walls -- she corrects the grammar!"
-- Bert Convy on "Tattletales" (ca. 1975)
Card Shark
John Davidson played a t*** s*** host in Edward Scissorhands.
"Now let's open the board and get to the cards." Jim Perry on Card Sharks (1978-81)
Kenneth Johannessen
Phoebe9294 wrote in message
<19990418003648...@ng-fv1.aol.com>...
Don't forget the "I've Got a Secret" gang in "It Happened to Jane" (1959)
with Doris Day and Ernie Kovacs (host of "Take a Good Look").
Also, Bert Parks was in "The Freshman" (1990) with Matthew Broderick and
Marlon Brando.
Bob Clayton ("Concentration") was in a Jerry Lewis movie in the early '60s,
I can't remember which one.
And I think Hal March of "The $64k Question" was in a few movies as well.
One more: if you want to think of it as a game show, Fred Holliday of "The
Girl in My Life" had a very small part in "A Guide For the Married Man" with
Jack Lemmon (1965).
k.j.
"They told me someday I'd be a star - oy-y-y!!"
- Bill Cullen, "The Price is Right" (1958)
Nash Martindale
his New Year's thing) in "When Harry Met Sally", and the voice of Bob
Barker can be heard as a TV runs in "Flight of the Navigator".
-Josh Roehrig,
Host of "The New 'Net High Rollers" and,
co-host of "'Net Tic Tac Dough/The Joker's Wild"
Visit OtherNash's Game $how !n$an!ty at
http://members.tripod.com/~OtherNash/gameshows.html
Jay Lewis
>>Subject: Re: Ray Combs & other hosts who appeared in movies
>>From: tgbr...@aol.comNOSPAM
>
>>>By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
>>>game show hosts have appeared in?
For the most complete list anywhere, on this topic anyway, goto
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8580/gsiomfaq.htm
-----
What's your excuse?
Chuck Enberg
>
> I'm not sure if these two count, but Dick Clark appears on a TV (doing
> his New Year's thing) in "When Harry Met Sally", and the voice of Bob
> Barker can be heard as a TV runs in "Flight of the Navigator".
Actually, it's Tom Kennedy you hear in the TPiR clip from Flight of the
Navigator...you can hear Johnny O say "And now, here's the star of The
Nighttime Price is Right...Tom Kennedy!"
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
Annlindgk
>>Arte Johnson (panel on a gameshow)
>>Jaye P. Morgan (panel on a gameshow)
>>Jaime Farr (panel on a gameshow)
>>HOME ALONE 2
>>
>
Bob Eubanks also had a bit in "Johnny Dangerously" as the host at a movie
premiere
.
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got the combination." ----Greg Kinnear
Jeffrey Gray
TGBromley wrote:
> Scott Alan Temple pondered:
>
> >
> >By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
> >game show hosts have appeared in?
>
> Two off the top of my head:
>
> "Airplane 2: The Sequel" -- Art Fleming
> (Didn't Pat Sajak appear in one or the other of the Airplane movies as a
> newscaster?)
Yes, he appeared in Airplane II as the Buffalo anchorman.
>
>
> "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" -- Robert Q. Lewis (he acts!
Paul Duca
TGBromley wrote:
> Scott Alan Temple pondered:
>
> >
> >By the way, do any of you people in the group know of any other movies that
> >game show hosts have appeared in?
>
> Two off the top of my head:
>
> "Airplane 2: The Sequel" -- Art Fleming
> (Didn't Pat Sajak appear in one or the other of the Airplane movies as a
> newscaster?)
Pat was in "Airplane 2" as well...and don't forget the question Alex read
this week--that Art appeared with Gregory Peck in the film "MacArthur"
>
>
> "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" -- Robert Q. Lewis (he acts!
> he sings! he dances!) and George Fenneman (he hosts)
And the boss' mistress turned game-show assistant was played by
Maureen Arthur, who was assistant on "Charge Account", hosted by Jan Murray...who
co-starred with Jerry Lewis in "Which Way to the Front?"
Paul Duca
Paul Duca
Kenneth Johannessen wrote:
> Phoebe9294 wrote in message
> <19990418003648...@ng-fv1.aol.com>...
> >>"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" -- Robert Q. Lewis (he
> >>acts! he sings! he dances!)
> >
Don't forget him playing Herb the sales guy's father on "WKRP in
Cincinnati".
>
>
> Bob Clayton ("Concentration") was in a Jerry Lewis movie in the early '60s,
> I can't remember which one.
"The Bellboy"
>
>
> And I think Hal March of "The $64k Question" was in a few movies as well.
Not as many as I thought--I checked IMDB....he had roles in a few small
films and even co-starred in a TV series, "The Soldiers", pre-"Question", but
his only signiicant film role after that was in "Send Me No Flowers" with the
triumverate of Doris Day, Rock Hudson & Tony Randall. He also played the lead
in the original Broadway prduction of Neil Simon's first play "Come Blow Your
Horn"(Frank Sinatra had the role in the film version)
>
>
> One more: if you want to think of it as a game show, Fred Holliday of "The
> Girl in My Life" had a very small part in "A Guide For the Married Man" with
> Jack Lemmon (1965).
"A Guide For the Married Man" starred Walter Matthau and came out in
1967...Hal March also had a role in it(celeb cameos included Lucille Ball, Jack
Benny, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers and Art Carney--and it was
directed by Gene Kelly).
And if you remember his stint fronting "Earn Your Vacation" add Johnny
Carson, for his cameo in the Bob Hope film "Cancel My Reservation".
Paul Duca
sonic...@my-dejanews.com
ast...@goucher.edu (Card Shark) wrote:
> On 18 Apr 1999 03:18:38 GMT, mequ...@aol.com (Mequirino) wrote:
>
> >>From: tgbr...@aol.comNOSPAM
> >
> >>>game show hosts have appeared in?
> >>
> >
> >WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP
> >starring: Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez
> >
> >Pat Sajak (buffalo, ny anchorman)
> >AIRPLANE!
> >starring: an all-star cast
> >
> >Bert Convy (an actor in movies too many to list down)
> >
> >Arte Johnson (panel on a gameshow)
> >Jaye P. Morgan (panel on a gameshow)
> >Jaime Farr (panel on a gameshow)
> >HOME ALONE 2
> >
> >***note: Rashad hosted NBC "Caesar's Challenge" from 1993-94, but has been
> >famous today with NBC sportscastings since the 80's
> >BEST OF THE BEST
> >starring: James Earl Jones
> >
> >Vanna White (cameo, at an academy awards)
> >THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3
> >
> >Bill Cosby (many movies too long to list)
> >*** note: Cosby hosted "You Bet Your Life" from 1992.
>
> "Now let's open the board and get to the cards." Jim Perry on Card Sharks
(1978-81)
>
Jay Wolpert, the man you have to bless for "Whew!" and mildly curse for
"TNPiR94", played a role in "Father of the Bride," according to IMDb and Mike
Klauss.
Chico Alexander
host, 'net Cardsharks
http://www.geocities.com/Televisioncity/Lot/5562
"I am your substitute teacher, Mr. Law. Thank you for taking your seats."
--Sammo Hung.
Bo Bielefeldt
that
> game show hosts have appeared in?
Both Art Fleming and Pat Sajak had cameos in "Airplane II: The Sequel".
Art played himself and Pat played a local news reporter. If you happen to
come across this film, watch it. It's as hilarious as the original
"Airplane!" film.
Bo Bielefeldt
Nash Martindale
"Slums of Beverly Hills".
Ryan Bugaj
Nash Martindale <TheW...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:5519-371...@newsd-214.iap.bryant.webtv.net...
> I'm not sure if these two count, but Dick Clark appears on a TV (doing
> his New Year's thing) in "When Harry Met Sally", and the voice of Bob
> Barker can be heard as a TV runs in "Flight of the Navigator".
>
from the mid 80s - probably '85 or '86 (whenever the movie was made, I don't
know).
I'm assuming '85 since Johnny Olsen's voice is also heard: "...an exciting
trip to CANADA!"
-Ryan Bugaj
Host of Net Outburst
JRohm68012
>Barker can be heard as a TV runs in "Flight of the Navigator".
>
Umm.........don't you mean Tom Kennedy?
Jim R
SUPERPHIL1
Wheel of Fortune. Dustin Hoffman does a great rendition of the WOF opening
speil. Bob Eubanks appeared in Roger and Me, Wink Martindale appeared in The
Lively Set a BAD 1960's film about auto racing and there's a clip of TPIR in
adventures of babysitting. I was also watching Great Expectations (you Gwyenth
Paltrow fans will love this one!) and there's a clip of the Cullen version of
Blockbusters. I also remember seeing a movie with a clip of Davidson's HS and
Jim J Bullock was being asked a question but I can't remember the movie it was
in.
Phil Melcher
Till Eulenspiegel
"Kenneth Johannessen" <mis...@crcwnet.com> wrote:
>
> Don't forget the "I've Got a Secret" gang in "It Happened to Jane" (1959)
> with Doris Day and Ernie Kovacs (host of "Take a Good Look").
>
What is that movie about, anyway? I've never been able to locate a copy or
been able to find it on cable. Does it feature an "episode" of IGAS in the
story?
--
"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's
work."
-- Sgt. Ernie Bilko
Antoinette Rossi
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Toni and Mike
Welcome to Montalvin
Mequirino
add more GS personalities to the movie list:
WESLEY EURE (Finder's Keepers)
- NBC "Days of Our Lives" (former actor)
- "C.H.O.M.P.S."
JAY MOHR (Lip Service)
- comedian/actor from LS to SNL to becoming a big movie star (Jerry Maguire,
200 Cigarrettes, Picture Perfect, Mafia, Go, etc.)
BETTY WHITE
(a.k.a. mrs. password, just men, and a GS celeb.)
- "Chance of A Lifetime" (NBC-TV movie)
- "Dennis The Menace II" (video)
- "Hard Rain"
MARK DeCARLO (Studs, Big Deal)
- 1992 Movie: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- (NBC) "Saved By The Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas"
VANNA WHITE (Wheel of Fortune)
- "Gypsy Angels"
- (NBC) "Goddess of Love"
- "Naked Gun 33 1/3" (cameo)
Card Shark
Martindale) wrote:
>I'm not sure if these two count, but Dick Clark appears on a TV (doing
>his New Year's thing) in "When Harry Met Sally", and the voice of Bob
>Barker can be heard as a TV runs in "Flight of the Navigator".
No, it's not Bob Barker. The characters happen to be watching the
beginning of The Price Is Right. Only, it's a Tom Kennedy show because
at one point, the camera specifically goes to the t.v. where Tom is
talking with a contestant on stage.
>
>-Josh Roehrig,
>Host of "The New 'Net High Rollers" and,
>co-host of "'Net Tic Tac Dough/The Joker's Wild"
>
>Visit OtherNash's Game $how !n$an!ty at
>http://members.tripod.com/~OtherNash/gameshows.html
>
"Now let's open the board and get to the cards." Jim Perry on Card Sharks (1978-81)
Card Shark
>>"Airplane 2: The Sequel" -- Art Fleming
>>(Didn't Pat Sajak appear in one or the other of the Airplane movies as a
>>newscaster?)
>
>Yes he did.
>
>To add another one, if memory serves, Alex Trebek was in "White Men Can't
>Jump". (Rosie Perez's character ends up winning tons of money on Jeopardy!)
>
>I also remember John Davidson in "The Squeeze".
Ok, other interesting tidbits. John Davidson played a t*** s*** host
in Edward Scissorhands. A few brief seconds of Scrabble can be seen in
Inner Space. In Splash, there is a scene where Darryl Hannah and Tom
Hanks are having a conversation in front of a television. On that t.v.
is someone winning $10,000 in the Winner's Circle on Pyramid, there is
a clip of Bob Barker making an entrance on TPIR on a movie called
First Born. There is a clip from PYL at the beginning of Cable Guy. In
Serial Mom, there is a scene revolving around Wheel of Fortune. That's
about it for now.
MJsaints
Danny DeVito-Roald Dahl story "Matlida," not the Elliott Gould-boxing kangaroo
"Matilda," if you look veeerrry carefully you'll see underneath a lot of makeup
Marianne Curan as a contestant on "The $1,000,000 Squishy." She's also in "The
Pelican Brief" and plays a newscaster in "Puppet Master 2," I believe.
Mark Jeffries--all play, all day (Don't I wish!)
Till Eulenspiegel
That's FUNNY! I just watched "Matilda" two nights ago with my kids for the
XXXXth time (it's my 6-year-old daughter's favorite right now), and I've never
noticed it was Marianne. Now I'm going to have to watch it AGAIN!! Argh...