In article <hIVyr.52981$On2....@newsfe16.iad>,
"Murielle" <
muri...@invalid.com> wrote:
> > James Garner as Jim Rockford back in the middle '70s. ROckford was sort
> > of a modern wisecracking Philip Marlowe type. In fact, Garner had played
> > Marlowe in a movie in 1968. (Bruce Lee's first movie, BTW.) Rockford
> > also gave Tom Selleck his big break as a detective as Lance White, the
> > Too-Perfect Private Eye.
>
> Yup, that's the one she watched, though her favorite was ... can't recall
> the actor's name, but he appeared later as Nero Wolfe in a series. My
> grandmother thought he was a very handsome man. (Each to their own...)
William Conrad? He played Frank Cannon on "Cannon" in the middle '70s,
and was briefly Nero Wolfe around 1980 or so. He later was the Fat Man
in "Jake and the Fat Man." He was, as they say, rotund. Parenthetically,
Conrad was Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio series "Gunsmoke," which
preceded the TV series. He also did the narration on "The Fugitive."
"Fate moved its massive hand..."