Famous Faces on "The Honeymooners" (Season One)!
Since it's premiere on October 1, 1955, "The Honeymooners" has established itself as a conerstone of America television. Amazing...considering that only 39 full-length classic episodes were filmed. The immortal Jackie Gleason with beloved sidekicks Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph, who starred as 'Ralph, Ed, Alice and Trixie', set the tone for countless situation comedies through the years. But none have quite captured the sheer magic of the "Kramdens" and the "Nortons" struggling to carve out their place of the American Dream in Brooklyn. These timeless 39 episodes is an everlasting monument to one of the funniest and most enduring TV shows of all time!
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- The daughter of a copper expert (William Stanley Eckert) and an actress and museum curator (May Davenport), character actress Anne Seymour was born on September 11, 1909 in New York City. She was the seventh generation of a theatrical family that could be tracked back to Ireland in 1740. Her great-uncle was the popular character actor Harry Davenport and her two older brothers were writer James Seymour (42nd Street (1933)) and actor John Seymour (The Sporting Club (1971)).
Anne trained for the stage at the American Laboratory Theatre School with Richard Boleslawski and Maria Ouspenskaya, and began her career performing with The Jitney Players. She, as did her brothers, eventually changed her stage moniker from Eckert to her mother's maiden name of Seymour. After touring throughout New England, Anne made her New York debut in Mr. Moneypenny in 1928. Other Broadway shows followed including At the Bottom (1930) and A School for Scandal (1931). The following year, she entered the world of radio drama. Her distinctively warm style and vocal timbre were perfect for playing some of radio's noblest, self-sacrificing heroines. She portrayed "Mary Marlin" for 11 popular seasons; it turned out to be her most identifiable role.
In the late 1940s Anne switched to film and made an auspicious debut as Lucy Stark in the Oscar-winning picture All the King's Men (1949). Although movie appearances would remain sporadic and relatively minor, Anne was a solid, capable player during the golden age of television and could be seen dressing up many glossy dramas, including Studio One (1948) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). Her rather hawkish, matronly features, which seemed in stark contrast to her smooth, modulated tones, nevertheless had her primarily playing benevolent roles as concerned relatives and professionals somewhat in the background.
In 1958, Anne earned strong marks for her portrayal of Sara Delano Roosevelt alongside Tony-winning Ralph Bellamy's FDR in "Sunrise at Campobello" on Broadway. She lost the 1960 movie role to Ann Shoemaker. Anne was actively involved on the SAG and AFTRA boards throughout a good portion of her career. Unmarried, she died in 1988 of natural causes after completing a small part in the popular film Field of Dreams (1989).The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
Mrs. Stevens (uncredited) - Actor
- Producer
Joseph Ruskin was born on 14 April 1924 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Smokin' Aces (2006), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and The Scorpion King (2002). He was married to Barbara Greene and Patricia Herd. He died on 28 December 2013 in Santa Monica, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
Raccoon Lodge Member (uncredited)- Actor
- Soundtrack
Veteran Polish-born character actor Ned Glass grew up in New York. After working in vaudeville he started acting in small parts on Broadway from the early 1930s. He gained further experience in the capacity of theatrical production supervisor before entering motion pictures in 1937 as an MGM contract player. Until the mid-1950s he was seen primarily in tiny supporting roles as clerks, reporters, bank tellers and small-time managers. His career was briefly put on hold after being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, but, with help from friends like John Houseman and Moe Howard (of The Three Stooges fame) he managed to get enough film work to make ends meet.
By 1953, Ned began to find a new lease of life in television where his roles were more varied and substantial. This afforded him the opportunity to fully develop his screen persona: that of the balding, weedy, perpetually nervy conman or weaselly stooge, often delivering barbed repartee or wisecracks in a heavy Brooklyn accent. Ned was at his best in comedy, put to good use in several episodes of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners (1955), and adapting well to anything else with a New York theme, from Kojak (1973) to Barney Miller (1975). He had many other good guest-starring roles on television, including several shifty characters in The Untouchables (1959), and as Freddie the Forger in Get Smart (1965) ('Do I Hear a Vaults?',1970). He was twice nominated for Emmy Awards, first for an episode of Julia (1968) (as Sol Cooper); the second time for Bridget Loves Bernie (1972) (Uncle Moe Plotnick).
From the time he played Doc in West Side Story (1961), Ned also began to land some meatier roles on the big screen, including the character of Popcorn in Experiment in Terror (1962), and as Doc Schindler, in one of the funniest 60's comedies, The Fortune Cookie (1966), directed by Billy Wilder. His best portrayal was that of the wily Leonard Gideon, sharpest of the villainous trio (the others being James Coburn and George Kennedy) on the trail of a quarter of a million dollar loot in gold, in the Hitchcockian thriller Charade (1963).
Ned continued playing crusty reprobates in films and on television, his last being a small-time thief in an episode of Cagney & Lacey (1981). He died two years later in Encino, California, at the age of 78.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
Teddy Oberman (uncredited)- Music Department
- Actor
- Writer
Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey, and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums with his orchestra for Capitol Records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his instrumental compositions include "Melancholy Serenade", "Glamour", "Lover's Rhapsody", "On the Beach" and "To a Sleeping Beauty", among numerous others."Ralph Kramden"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 1
TV or Not TV (1 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 4
A Woman's Work Is Never Done (22 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 6
The Sleepwalker (5 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 7
Better Living Through TV (12 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 10
Hello Mom (3 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Art Carney was an American actor with a lengthy career but is primarily remembered for two roles. In television, Carney played municipal sewer worker Ed Norton in the influential sitcom "The Honeymooners" (1955-1956). In film, Carney played senior citizen Harry Coombes in the road movie "Harry and Tonto" (1974). For this role, Carney won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1918, Carney was born in an Irish American family in Mount Vernon, New York. His father was publicist Edward Michael Carney, and his mother was housewife Helen Farrell. Carney was the youngest of the family's six sons. He was educated at Mount Vernon High School (at the time called "A.B. Davis High School").
In the 1930s, Carney was a singer with the orchestra of big band leader Horace Heidt (1901-1986). They appeared often in radio shows, and were regulars in the pioneering game show Pot o' Gold (1939-1947). Carney had an uncredited cameo in the film adaptation "Pot o' Gold" (1941), which was his film debut.
His career was interrupted when he was drafted for World War II service. He served as an infantryman and machine gun crewman for the duration of the war. He fought in the Invasion of Normandy (1944), where he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel. Following his injury, his right leg was shorter than his left one. He walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
Following the War, Carney appeared regularly on radio as a character actor. He also served as a celebrity impersonator, imitating the voices of (among others) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Dwight David Eisenhower. He had a recurring role as the Red Lantern in the fantasy adventure series "Land of the Lost" (1943-1948), and another as Charlie the doorman in radio and television version of the sitcom The Morey Amsterdam Show (1948-1950).
Carney was first paired with fellow actor Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) in 1950, in a comedy sketch appearing in the variety series "Cavalcade of Stars" (1949-1952). Gleason appeared as lunchroom loudmouth Charlie Bratten, and Carney as mild-mannered victim Clem Finch. Due to good chemistry between the two actors, Carney became a show regular and appeared in several other comedy sketches with Gleason. "Cavalcade of Stars" was eventually reworked into "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1952-1957), with Gleason as the lead actor and Carney as his sidekick.
The most notable of the recurring sketches was "the Honeymooners", pairing the verbally abusive Ralph Kramden (Gleason) with his optimistic best friend Ed Norton (Carney). The sketch eventually was eventually given its own series, "The Honeymooners" (1955-1956). The series only lasted for 1 season, and a total of 39 episodes. The sitcom was canceled due to low ratings, but found success in syndication. Its depiction of the American working class was popular and influenced several other sitcoms. The popular animated sitcom "The Flintstones" (1960-1966) started as a Honeymooners parody, with the character Barney Rubble based on Ed Norton.
Due to his popularity as Gleason's sidekick, Carney was offered a number of lead roles in television. He starred in the television special "Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf" (1958), adapted from the story "Peter and the Wolf" (1936) by Sergei Prokofiev. He was eventually given his own show "Art Carney Special" (1959-1961), which was not particularly successful.
Carney had few notable guest star roles in television during the 1960s. He played an alcoholic department store Santa Claus in the episode "The Night of the Meek" (1960) of The Twilight Zone, and portrayed the villain "The Archer" in two episodes of "Batman". He opened the 1970s by playing both Santa Claus and villain Cosmo Scam in the Christmas television special "The Great Santa Claus Switch" (1970), where he appeared alongside Jim Henson's Muppets.
Carney had suffered a career decline until the 1970s, in part due to his alcoholism. He first found success in film as the leading character "Harry and Tonto" (1974), as a lonely senior citizen who goes on a cross-country journey with his pet cat. His critical success in the role and winning an Academy Award helped revive his career. He was offered many new film roles, though few leading ones.
Among his better-known film roles were the deranged preacher John Wesley Gore in "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings" (1975), aging detective Ira Wells in "The Late Show" (1977), senile surgeon Dr. Amos Willoughby in "House Calls" (1978), and thrill-seeking bank robber Al in "Going in Style". During this period, Carney won both the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor and the Pasinetti Award for Best Actor.
Carney had a notable role in the television film "Star Wars Holiday Special" (1978) as Trader Saun Dann, a member of the Rebel Alliance. In the 1980s, Carney was mostly reduced to minor roles again. He is better remembered as the kind-hearted farmer Irv Manders in the horror film "Firestarter" (1984) and theatrical producer Bernard Crawford in the comedy-drama "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984). He mostly retired from acting by the late 1980s.
Carney emerged from retirement to play the supporting role of Frank Slater in "Last Action Hero" (1993). Frank is depicted as the "favorite second cousin" of the film's protagonist Jack Slater (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger). Frank's death provided motivation for the revenge-seeking protagonist. Frank's final line in the film was "I'm outta here", and this was indeed Carney's last appearance in a film before his death.
Carney lived in retirement until 2003. He died in his sleep in November 2003, in his home near Westbrook, Connecticut. His death was attributed to unspecified "natural causes". He was 85 years old and had reportedly managed to stay sober since he originally quit drinking in 1974. He is interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Carney was survived by his wife Jean Myers, who died in October 2012. Carney was the grandfather of politician Devin Carney, who served in the Connecticut General Assembly."Ed Norton"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 1
TV or Not TV (1 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 4
A Woman's Work Is Never Done (22 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 6
The Sleepwalker (5 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 7
Better Living Through TV (12 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 10
Hello Mom (3 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Audrey Meadows was born in New York City as Audrey Cotter, the youngest of four children. After she was born, her family returned to Wu'chang, China, where they worked as missionaries. Her family returned to the US and settled in New England when Audrey was age 6, and she and sister Jayne Meadows attended an all-girls boarding school. After high school, Jayne went to NYC with the goal of becoming an actress and finally convinced her little sister to join her in show business, but as a singer instead of an actress. Audrey spent months working on the Broadway show "Top Banana" and then got a job on The Bob & Ray Show (1951). She then replaced Pert Kelton as the most famous and best-loved "Alice Kramden" of The Honeymooners (1955). After "The Honeymooners" ended, she went on to do films, such as Take Her, She's Mine (1963) and That Touch of Mink (1962), and even portrayed Ted Knight's mother-in-law in the 1980s sitcom Too Close for Comfort (1980). But her heart--and ours--will forever remain in that two-burner-stove Chauncey Street kitchen."Alice Kramden"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 1
TV or Not TV (1 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 4
A Woman's Work Is Never Done (22 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 6
The Sleepwalker (5 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 7
Better Living Through TV (12 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 10
Hello Mom (3 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)- Lovely, sweet-natured Joyce Randolph will forever be etched in the minds of "Golden Age" television viewers as the Bowery-like fourth party of the classic husband/wife quartet on the enduring TV family comedy The Honeymooners (1955) starring Jackie Gleason as the irrepressible hothead bus driver Ralph Kramden. As Thelma ("Trixie") Norton, the dressed-down, beleaguered wife of sewer worker Ed Norton (played by the adorably goofy Art Carney) and best friend to equally stern realist Alice Kramden (played by equally lovely Audrey Meadows), Joyce participated in nearly 100 episodes of the beloved show before it left the air in 1957.
Randolph's real last name was Sirola, being of Finnish descent. As a teenager, her interest in acting grew and she eventually found her way to become a part of the Wayne University Workshop. After high school graduation, Joyce found employment in retail at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Detroit. Auditioning for a Workshop tour of the play "Stage Door" in Detroit, she won the part and traveled with the company. She followed that tour with another tour, a revival of "Abie's Irish Rose" that ran for a year.
At age 18, Joyce moved to New York City during war-time (1943) to try her luck. She made her Broadway debut in 1945 in the short-lived comedy "A Goose for the Gander" starring Gloria Swanson and Conrad Nagel at the Playhouse Theatre. She returned to Broadway with "Ladies Night at a Turkish Bath" in 1950. She also appeared in summer stock and once performed in the musical "No, No, Nanette" with Ms. Meadows.
She began on TV as early as 1946 at General Electric's experimental laboratory in Schenectady, NY. Having now changed her stage name from her christened name to the more inviting "Joyce Randolph," the actress began appearing on TV in 1950, finding parts on such regular programs as "The Colgate Comedy Hour," "Rocky King, Detective," "Buck Rogers," "The Clock," "I Cover Times Square" and "Famous Jury Trials." By sheer luck, Joyce was spotted in a Clorets chewing gum commercial by Gleason himself the following year and was asked to appear in a skit on the "Cavalcade of Stars," Gleason's variety show on the DuMont Network. He liked her, he cast her then as Trixie, and the rest is TV history.
Taking over the role played originally, and only once, by Elaine Stritch, when the part of Trixie was thought of as a burlesque girl, the skit format was changed to series form with The Honeymooners (1955). Caught in a terrible typecasting, Joyce would find it extremely hard obtaining other roles after the demise of the show. Interestingly, when "The Honeymooners" sketches were revived on a revamped Gleason variety show in the 1960s, the roles of Alice and Trixie were taken over by Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean. Only Carney remained. Joyce would later say she did not revive her Trixie role due to "personal and geographic reasons." Gleason had moved his company to Miami, Florida.
Joyce maintained her career for awhile on the musical stage, in commercials, and with a few solo appearances on such shows as "The Jack Benny Show," and "The Doctors and the Nurses," but eventually retired from acting altogether. She married Richard Lincoln Charles, a wealthy entrepreneur and marketing executive, on October 2, 1955, the day after The Honeymooners premiered. He died at age 74 in 1997. Their son, Randolph Richard Charles, born in 1960, followed in his father's, not his mother's, footsteps after attending Yale University. He became a marketing executive before taking over his father's business. Joyce is also the grand aunt of former Major League Baseball pitcher Tim Redding."Trixie Norton"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 1
TV or Not TV (1 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 6
The Sleepwalker (5 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 7
Better Living Through TV (12 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 10
Hello Mom (3 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956) - Ethel Owen was born on 30 March 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), Inner Sanctum (1954) and Kraft Theatre (1947). She was married to John Hale Almy and Dr. Raymond Gilbert Owens. She died on 16 February 1997 in Savannah, Georgia, USA."Mrs. Gibson - Alice's Mother"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
(uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
(uncredited) - Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Composer, songwriter ("When Love Has Gone"), conductor, pianist, author and arranger, he came to the USA during World War I. He was a pianist in New York Ballrooms, then organized his own orchestra and toured the US in vaudeville. He was a pianist on radio, then a music director and arranger for radio and for television networks. He joined ASCAP in 1939, and his chief musical collaborators included W. Edward Breuder and Paul Rusincky. His other song compositions include "You're Everything That's Lovely", "In the Same Old Way", "In My Little Red Book", "The Wide Open Spaces", "Sam the Vegetable Man", "Let's Make Up a Little Party", and "If You Were Mine".Bandleader
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)- Rita Colton was born on 23 October 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Project X (1949), Man Against Crime (1949) and Masterpiece Playhouse (1950). She died on 28 August 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, USA."Mrs. Kramden - Ralph's Mother"
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 10
Hello Mom (3 Dec. 1955)
(uncredited) - Actor
- Soundtrack
Cliff Hall was born on 4 October 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950), Kraft Theatre (1947) and The Defenders (1961). He died on 6 October 1972 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.Raccoon Lodge President
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
(uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
(uncredited)- Dick Bernie was born on 15 October 1907 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Highway Patrol (1955), Harbor Command (1957) and Klondike (1960). He was married to Gwen Helene Gaudio and Amelia F. Gentry. He died on 8 February 1971 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
Brother Andrews (uncredited) - Actress
- Soundtrack
The June Taylor Dancers is known for The Jackie Gleason Show (1952), Happy Landing (1943) and The Jackie Gleason Show (1966).The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
Themselves- Sammy Birch is known for Stanley (1956), Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes (1956) and The Red Buttons Show (1952).The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
Raccoon Lodge Member (uncredited) - Jim Boles was born on 28 February 1914 in Lubbock, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Get Smart (1965), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). He was married to Athena Lorde. He died on 26 May 1977 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Gangster (uncredited) - Les Damon was born on 31 March 1908 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Edge of Night (1956), Guiding Light (1952) and Play of the Week (1959). He died on 21 July 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
Gersh's Assistant (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
Dr. Seefer (uncredited) - Jack Davis was born on 5 April 1914 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Doll House (1971), Code Name: Apollo (1970) and The Master Liquidators (1969). He was married to Josephine. He died on 3 November 1992 in Santa Monica, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Police Officer (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
Riley (uncredited) - Charles Eggleston was born on 16 July 1882 in Covington, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Lights Out (1946), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died on 31 October 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Old Counterfeiter - Actress
Betty Garde was a versatile actress, who began in show business after winning a playwriting competition at high school. Joining Actor's Equity in 1922, she became a noted performer on stage in Boston and Philadelphia, eventually making her debut on Broadway in 1925. Betty, at least early in her profession, was particularly noted for her penchant for comedy, often receiving high praise from the critics. During the 1930's and 40's, she became a prolific radio actress, at the same time maintaining a busy career in the theatre. In addition to voice acting, she also produced and directed her own drama series on CBS, entitled "Another Chance". She starred in and directed the soap opera "My Son and I" in 1939. Additionally, she featured on Eddie Cantor's show, in specials for Orson Welles and in the radio anthology series "Theater Guild on the Air".
Her film and television roles became more frequent from the late 1940's. She was effectively reprehensible as Wanda Skutnik, the key witness who sends innocent Richard Conte to jail in the gripping drama Call Northside 777 (1948). Another 'tough' role was her prison inmate Kitty Stark in Caged (1950), a minor film noir. Her most famous role was as Aunt Eller in the original Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" (1943). Among many guest-starring roles on the small screen, her stand-out performance has to be that of Lois Nettleton's overwrought landlady, Mrs. Bronson, in the seminal The Twilight Zone (1959) episode 'The Midnight Sun'.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 4
A Woman's Work Is Never Done (22 Oct. 1955)
Thelma - Maid (uncredited)- John Gibson was born on 29 June 1905 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Date with Judy (1951), Studio One (1948) and The Defenders (1961). He was married to Alice Deshon. He died on 14 September 1971 in Great Neck, New York, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
Pete (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
Frank MacGillicuddy (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
Raccoon Lodge Member (uncredited) - John Griggs was born on 19 May 1908 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Fearless Fosdick (1952), I Spy (1955) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died on 25 February 1967 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
Mr. Harper (uncredited) - Eddie Hanley was born on 17 May 1904. He was an actor, known for Portrait of a Mobster (1961), Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963) and Target: The Corruptors (1961). He died on 29 March 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Telephone Installer (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 7
Better Living Through TV (12 Nov. 1955)
TV Director (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 12
Something Fishy (17 Dec. 1955)
Brother Dribben (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
Pete Woodruff (uncredited) - John Holland was born on 16 May 1908 in Fremont, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Madmen of Mandoras (1963). He was married to Nancy Linda Ramage and Mary John Saxon. He died on 21 May 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
Tony Amico (uncredited) - Versatile, diligent character actor Frank Marth was a familiar presence in just about every major American prime-time TV show of the 60's and 70's. The native New Yorker got his big break as a member of Jackie Gleason's stock company, perennially cast as uncredited background characters in Cavalcade of Stars (1949) and The Honeymooners (1955). According to series co-star Audrey Meadows he was "worth his weight in gold". Thereafter, granite-faced, sober-looking Marth became omnipresent on the small screen for more than two decades as tough cops, FBI agents and stern military brass. Amazingly, he was overlooked for the part of a KAOS operative in Get Smart (1965) (which would have been perfect casting !) but made up for it with Luger-wielding Count von Waffenschmidt and assorted SS officers in Hogan's Heroes (1965). He was also a favorite in anything sci-fi, whether as a sinister alien in The Invaders (1967) or as THRUSH agent Carl Voegler in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). He appeared suitably taciturn as Colonel Brody, stymying dinosaur-hunting Darren McGavin in Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974). Perfectly cast yet again, he gave the medics a hard time as a hard-nosed tank commander in the M*A*S*H episode "Hey, Doc". He had other recurring uniformed roles in The Dirty Dozen (1988) and War and Remembrance (1988).
Marth was married to stage and screen actress Hope Holiday.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Police Officer Grogan (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
Cassidy (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 4
A Woman's Work Is Never Done (22 Oct. 1955)
Mr. Wilson (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)
Charlie (uncredited) - Actor
- Director
George Petrie was born on 16 November 1912 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), The Day After (1983) and Leave It to Beaver (1957). He was married to Patricia Pope. He died on 16 November 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 3
The Golfer (15 Oct. 1955)
Fred (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 5
A Matter of Life and Death (29 Oct. 1955)
Dick Gersh (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 6
The Sleepwalker (5 Nov. 1955)
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 9
Brother Ralph (26 Nov. 1955)
Freddie (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 11
The Deciding Vote (10 Dec. 1955)
Joe Rumsey (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)
Fred (uncredited)- Victor Rendina was born on 28 December 1916 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Godfather (1972), T.J. Hooker (1982) and The Man Who Wasn't There (1983). He died on 8 July 1985 in Orange, California, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 2
Funny Money (8 Oct. 1955)
Ziggy (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 14
The Man from Space (31 Dec. 1955)
Racoon Lodge Member (uncredited) - Ralph L. Robertson Jr. passed away on Aug. 9, 2014 at the age of 72. Ralph is survived by his beloved daughter, Lia Robertson of NYC and his loving partner, Beverly Buffington of St. Helens, ORE.
During WWII, his father worked as a railroad freight conductor and his mother was superintendent of a tenement building.
A native New Yorker, Ralph Jr., spent his early years growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, a few blocks away from the movie and theater districts near Times Square.
As a youngster he enjoyed shining shoes on 42nd Street and selling shopping bags on Ninth Avenue outside food markets. With his profits he would steal away to the "Laugh Movie" theater on 42nd St. to watch comedy features with Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and hours of cartoons.
From the age of five to fifteen, he worked as a child actor appearing on Broadway, Summer Stock and numerous live Radio and TV programs, while attending Professional Children's School.
One Broadway play that had a strong personal influence on Ralph was his juvenile role as the son "Morton" in the 1950 Arthur Miller adaption of Ibsen's : Enemy of the People" with Frederick March and his wife, Florence Eldridge. And on a popular note, were his small parts as; "Tommy Manicotti" in the TV episode "Trapped" (4/15/56) and Johnny Bennett" in "A Matter of Record" (1/7/56) on the "Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.
After graduating from Hiram College with a major in Art History, Ralph volunteered for the draft and served in the U.S. Army, Headquarters Co., Berlin Brigade, Berlin, Germany from 1964 to 1966.
In the early sixties, Ralph was impressed by "East Side/West Side", a television series about NYC social workers, starring George C. Scott and Cecily Tyson. On returning from overseas, Ralph joined the NYC Dept. of Social Services as a caseworker serving individuals and families in the South Bronx.
Ralph completed his graduate social work degree in 1977 from Hunter College School of Social Work, as a Group Work Major and licensed in NY State.
His broad 32-year career in social work included working in city agencies, non-profit programs, hospitals, shelters, social work universities and colleges that served the mentally-ill, homeless, substances abusers, child welfare recipients and graduate social work students. His professional assignments included work as a fund-raiser, administrator, program developer, individual and group psychiatric social worker, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, social work field instructor and adjunct faculty member.
Passionate about his chosen field, Ralph found that he could combine his desire to work with people and be creative. Two of his favorite innovations were to facilitate a poetry therapy group for patients at Creative Arts Rehab. Ctr. In NYC, where he worked for twelve years, and a reading group for men at the Psychiatric Shelter Program, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Ctr., wherein patients would read and discuss The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Ralph loved vacationing with his daughter in Cape Cod and was an avid surf fisherman for Bluefish and Striped Bass. Along with a lifelong interest in classical music, jazz and art, he became a dedicated bibliophile.
In 1998, Ralph was physically disabled from Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia.
After relocating to Northern California in 2000, he began a new interest as a student and member of Fire Arts Center, a pottery cooperative in Arcata, CA. He was a member of the Support Group, American Cancer Society in Eureka, CA and Arcata Zen Group. He also served as a patient care volunteer at Hospice of Humboldt County.
In 2009, Ralph moved to Oregon to be closer to the resources at Oregon Health and Sciences University and VA hospital. In 2011, he was diagnosed with a highly aggressive, second cancer that did not respond to treatment.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 15
A Matter of Record (7 Jan. 1956)
Johnny Bennett (uncredited) - John Seymour was born on 24 October 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for I Spy (1955), The Defenders (1961) and Tales of Tomorrow (1951). He was married to Abby Lewis. He died on 10 July 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 8
Pal O' Mine (19 Nov. 1955)
Dr. Hyman (uncredited) - Calvin Thomas is known for Suspense (1949), Ponds Theater (1953) and The Jackie Gleason Show (1952).The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 13
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (24 Dec. 1955)
Uncle Leo (uncredited)
The Honeymooners: Season 1, Episode 16
Oh, My Aching Back (14 Jan. 1956)
(uncredited)