Phil Silvers

SAG Awards 2013: Dick Van Dyke honored for life achievement

2013-01-27 18:27:00

It was an emotional, nostalgic moment at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last year when Dick Van Dyke gave Mary Tyler Moore the guild's 48th Life Achievement Award. The two veterans, who had come to TV fame playing Rob and Laura Petrie on the landmark...

PASSINGS: Doe Avedon Siegel, Dan Frazer

2011-12-23 00:00:00

Doe Avedon Siegel Model and stage, film, TV actress Doe Avedon Siegel, 86, a model, actress and young muse for photographer Richard Avedon, died of pneumonia Sunday at Encino Hospital Medical Center, said her daughter-in-law Annette Siegel. Born...

Around Town: 'Mad, Mad World' and other comedy classics

2011-12-29 21:37:53

Leonard Stern dies at 88; TV writer, producer also co-created Mad Libs

2011-06-09 00:00:00

Leonard Stern, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director whose career in television spanned "The Honeymooners," "Get Smart" and "McMillan & Wife" and whose additional career in publishing included co-creating the classic Mad Libs word game...

Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children

2010-02-02 00:00:00

Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95. Ruben, who devoted much of...

PASSINGS: Bill Monroe, John Strauss

2011-02-18 00:00:00

Bill Monroe Host of NBC's 'Meet the Press' Bill Monroe, 90, who hosted the long-running Washington political television show "Meet the Press" for nearly a decade, died Thursday at a Washington-area nursing home. Monroe was the NBC show's fourth...

'Car 54, Where Are You?' The sitcom reconsidered

2011-04-24 16:36:05

Building that once housed the famed Beverly Hills Friars Club is being razed

2011-01-28 21:34:24

Joseph Stein dies at 98; adapted Yiddish short story into 'Fiddler on the Roof'

2010-10-27 00:00:00

Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died. He was 98. His wife, Elisa Stein, said he died at Mount...

PASSINGS: Richard J. Dorso, Elisabeth Sladen, Roy Edward Burris

2011-04-24 00:00:00

RICHARD J. DORSO Talent agent, TV exec, boutique owner Richard J. "Dick" Dorso, 101, whose lengthy Hollywood career ranged from talent agent to television writer and producer to haberdasher, died April 6 at his home in Los Angeles, his family said....

At 'Cast Party,' the mike is open and the party is on

2010-03-28 00:00:00

By the time Liza Minnelli took the stage at Birdland, just after midnight, the party was in full swing: Michael Feinstein hugged the Broadway legend and a bubbly, upbeat crowd sang happy birthday to her. Parker Posey performed a wild, gyrating dance to...

PASSINGS: Justin Mentell, Jack Brisco, Barry Blitzer

2010-02-03 00:00:00

Justin Mentell 'Boston Legal' cast member Justin Mentell, 27, an actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal," was killed Monday in an SUV crash in Wisconsin. The Iowa County Sheriff's Department said Mentell was killed when his SUV went down an...

Alan Alda "MASH" (1972-83) (seated) Pre-Op: Born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo- his father was noted actor Robert Alda - the 73-year-old actor began his career in the 1950s a member of the Compass Players comedy revue and even appeared in a episode of the old "Sgt. Bilko" show with Phil Silvers.

2008-05-01 14:27:20

Character actor Allan Melvin, Jan. 17 Allan Melvin, a popular character actor who played Cpl. Henshaw on the classic 1950s sitcom The Phil Silvers Show and later portrayed Archie Bunker's neighbor and friend Barney on All in the Family, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, at his Brentwood, Calif., home.

2008-01-21 00:00:00

RALPH EDWARDS Edwards, left, hosts a show with comedians Phil Silvers, center, and Milton Berle. The show also highlighted ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

2005-11-21 13:29:46