Tribute 2009

*Jennifer Jones* Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon David Carradine Natasha Richardson Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver Pat Hingle James Whitmore	Jennifer Jones 1919-2009 Best known for her innocent, sweet and moving portrayal of the sickly teenager of Bernadette Soubirous in "The Song of Bernadette" in which she garnered the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 1944 over Ingrid Bergman, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine and Jean Arthur. Jones took on the supporting role of Jane Hilton, a headstrong teenage girl who in the end grows up fast when her fiance is killed in action during WWII, in "Since You Went Away." For this performance she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Jennifer continued to deliver strong performances, receiving further Best Actress Oscar nominations for *"Love Letters"* and *"Duel in the Sun"* in which she cast against type as seductive half-breed Pearl Chavez. She also received her fifth and final Oscar nomination for *"Love Is a Many Splendored Thing."* Her final appearance was the role Lisolette Muller in the disaster epic *"The Towering Inferno"* in 1974.
Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Jennifer Jones Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon David Carradine Natasha Richardson Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver Pat Hingle James Whitmore	Gene Barry 1919-2009 Best know for the title role in "Bat Masterson" in 1958 as well as other suave, dapper gentlemen on TV during the 60's and 70's such as his Golden Globe winning role as jet-setting detective Amos Burke in "Burke's Law," and the dapper and the impeccably-dressed publishing tycoon Glenn Howard in "The Name of the Game" He also was featured in the original "War of the Worlds" in 1953. When he had a lull in his TV career during the early 1970s, he revisited the stage and cabaret venues co-starring with his wife. In 1983, he made a masterful return to Broadway in 1983 to 1987 starring as a gay boulevardier in the musical version of the popular French film "La cage aux folles." which earned him a Tony nomination. He went on to the road show afterward in San Francisco and Los Angeles . He then had roles in other musicals including "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," "Watergate: The Musical" (as Nixon), "Fiddler on the Roof" (with his wife) and "No, No, Nanette". He later returned to TV in the 90's in brief stints in the roles that made his career 30 years before, Bat Masterson and Amos Burke. In 2005, he did a cameo role as the grandfather in the remake of "War of the Worlds."	Milton "Soupy" Sales 1926-2009 Best known for being the the victim of variations on the classic "pie in the face" gag during his show in 1959. He worked in several types of comedy and drama series, including voice-over as Donkey Kong in *"Saturday Supercade"* cartoon series. He briefly repeated hosting his show in 1976. Other notable roles include "Professor Prophet/Sonny Dey" in *"Black Scorpion"* TV series. He appeared in shows such as *"Love Boat," "Love American Style," "Route 66," "Beverly Hillbillies,* and "Burke's Law"
Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Jennifer Jones Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon David Carradine Natasha Richardson Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver Pat Hingle James Whitmore	Patrick Swayze 1952-2009 As the son of choreographer Patsy Swayze, he was naturally also her protégé. He also continued his dance training included at the Harkness Ballet School and Joffrey Ballet School in New York City . His first professional dancing role was "Prince Charming" in "Disney on Parade." He also starred as Danny Zuko in the in the original Broadway production of "Grease." He went on to film and television, which included one of the best episodes of **"MASH."* (Blood Brothers) Other early notable film work include "Red Dawn" and his choreography work on " Grandview U.S.A. " His star rose when he played the dance instructor Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing," for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. He also garnered a second nomination for his role of Sam Wheat in "Ghost." In December 2003, he returned to Broadway to take up the the lead role of "Billy Flynn" in the popular revival of the musical " Chicago ," which also toured several US cities, including Los Angeles . Other notable movie roles include Gunnery Sergeant Jim Lance in "Green Dragon."** His final film role was the sleazy nightclub owner Velvet Larry in "Powder Blue"	Karl Malden 1912-2009 Starting at Goodman Theater Dramatic School. Three years later, he went to New York City.and became involved with the Group Theater, a ground-breaking group of actors and directors who were changing the face of theater, where he attracted the attention of director Elia Kazan. Under Kazan's direction, Karl' s stage career blossomed by starring in plays such as Arthur Miller's *"All My Sons"* by and Tennessee Williams' "*A Streetcar Named Desire"* After discharging his duty in the military during WWII, Malden resumed his career in film. He garnered the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as "Mitch" in the film version of"A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and showed his range as an actor in roles such as that of "Father Corrigan" in *"On the Waterfront,"* and the lecherous Archie Lee in "Baby Doll". He also turned in a fabulous performance as hotel thief Keycase in the film "Hotel," and as General Omar Bradley in "Patton." But his main claim to fame came in 1972, when Producer Quinn Martin cast him in the role for which he is best known, the tough but decent detective Mike Stone in the series *"The Streets of San Francisco ."* He also did a seventeen year stint as a pitchman for American Express Travelers' Checks. His final television role was Fr. Thomas Kavanaugh in *"The West Wing"* in 2000.
Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon Jennifer Jones Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Patrick Swayze Karl Malden David Carradine Natasha Richardson Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver Pat Hingle James Whitmore	Farrah Fawcett 1947-2009 Best known for her brief one-year role as Detective Jill Monroe in the TV series *“Charlie’s Angels,”* She went on to a sporadic movie and TV career but turned in some fine performances, such as the critically acclaimed *“The Burning Bed,”* and the title leads in three TV biographies, *“Poor Little Rich Girl: the Barbara Hutton Story,”* *“Margaret Bourke-White,” “Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story.”* She also appeared in Broadway in the stage production of “Extremities,” and later also appeared in the motion picture adaptation. In 1997 came a tour-de-force performance in *“The Apostle”* with Robert Duvall. Other notable TV roles was as Judge Claire Simmons in *“ Spin City”* and Mary Gressler in “*The Guardian.”*	Ed McMahon 1923-2009 Best known for his trademark “Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny” on NBC’s "Tonight Show" from 1962-1992. He debuted as a 15-year-old "caller" at a bingo game in Maine . He later served his country as Marine fighter pilot during World War II and Korea and attended Washington, D.C. based Catholic University After Korea he resumed his TV career with "American Bandstand” with Dick Clark. In 1956 began the pairing that endured more than thirty years with *“Do You Trust Your Wife”* with Johnny Carson. When Jack Paar left “The Tonight Show” in 1962, Johnny took over the show with Ed in tow, which became one of the most successful pairings in television history. During the 1980’s he re-teamed with Dick Clark for *"TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes"* plus hosting his own long-running talent show, *"Star Search"*
avid Carradine Natasha Richardson Jennifer Jones Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver Pat Hingle James Whitmore	David Carradine 1936-2009 Eldest son of legendary character actor John Carradine, presiding over an acting family that includes brothers Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine and Michael Bowen, daughters Calista and Kansas Carradine and nieces Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton. Rocketing to stardom in iconic series *"Kung Fu"* in 1972, earning a Emmy Best Actor nomination in the process. He left the series three years later to pursue his film career, which includes the portrayal of Woody Guthrie in Hal Ashby's *"Bound for Glory"* in 1976, a role for which he garnered the Best Actor Award from the National Board of Film Review as well as a Golden Globe nomination. He also starred alongside Charlton Heston in the role of Captain Gates in *"Gray Lady Down."* (1978) and won critical acclaim for his work as Cole Younger in *"The Long Riders"* (1980) He also returned to the martial arts scene as the great-grandson of the original Kwai Chang Caine in the hit series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" (1992-1997). His most memorable to date, which could be considered his marquee performance, playing the title role in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (2003) and *Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)*, which also copped him a fourth Golden Globe nomination.	Natasha Richardson 1963-2009 The daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson, she trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Her notable stage credits include Helena in *"A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Ophelia in "Hamlet"* at the Young Vic. She was awarded "Most Promising Newcomer Award" in 1986 by the London Drama Critics for her performance as Nina in *"The Seagull,"* which co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce. She debuted in feature film as Mary Shelley in Ken Russell's *"Gothic"* in the same year. Director Paul Schrader cast her in the role of kidnapped newspaper heiress *"Patty Hearst"* two years later. The following year, she starred in the WWII drama *"Fat Man and Little Boy."* She went on to star in more notable roles in Volker Schlöndorff's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Schrader's "*The Comfort of Strangers"* in 1990, which prompted The London Evening Standard to grant her the Award for Best Actress that year
*Patrick McGoohan* Ron Silver Jennifer Jones Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon David Carradine Natasha Richardson Pat Hingle James Whitmore	Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009 Best known for his role as "Number 6" in the surreal British science fiction thriller series *"The Prisoner." American-born, yet starred in Britain, Patrick made a name for himself in the British series "Danger Man"* ("Secret Agent" in U.S. ). For the Disneyland TV series, he starred in the three-part episode "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh." After *"Danger Man"* wrapped, he went on to "The Prisoner." One of his best roles in film was the pompous, self-righteous warden in the Clint Eastwood film "Alcatraz" He also appeared as King Longshanks in Mel Gibson's "Braveheart," the judge in "A Time to Kill," and the voice of Billy Bones in Disney's *"Treasure Planet."*	Ron Silver 1946-2009 Best known for his recurring role of Bruno Gianelli *on “The West Wing,"* which earned him an Emmy nomination. He copped a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in the original production of David Mamet’s play *“Speed-the-Plow”* in 1988. Silver’s big-screen resumé include films such as "*Ali," "Reversal of Fortune,"* *"Enemies: A Love Story,"* *"Silkwood,"* the Slavic place kicker in *"Semi-Tough"* and most recently, *"The Ten"* and "Find Me Guilty." He played regular or had recurring roles on such TV shows as *“Veronica’s Closet”, “ Chicago Hope”* and *“Wiseguy”.* Other TV credits include *" Hill Street Blues," "Law and Order," " Rockford Files,"* and "Rhoda"
*Pat Hingle* James Whitmore Jennifer Jones Gene Barry Milton "Soupy" Sales Patrick Swayze Karl Malden Farrah Fawcett Ed McMahon David Carradine Natasha Richardson Patrick McGoohan Ron Silver	Pat Hingle 1924-2009 Best known for his role as Gotham City's Police Commissioner Gordon in the first four *"Batman"* films from *"Batman"* to *"Batman and Robin."* A character actor of the first order, Pat played prime roles in films such as the father in *"Norma Rae,"* He was a protégé of Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studios. He played the role of Gooper in the first Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' *"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* from 1955 to 1956. He had appeared in many TV programs including "MASH," "Murder, She Wrote,""In The Heat of the Night," "Cheers,"* and "*Touched by an Angel."*	James Whitmore 1921-2009 He played one of the two Runyonesque gangsters (Keenan Wynn the other) who sang *"Brush Up Your Shakespeare"* in the classic MGM musical *"Kiss Me Kate"* He turned to TV in the late 50's with memorable roles in *"The Twilight Zone," "The Detectives," "Ben Casey"* and his own series, *"The Law and Mr. Jones." During the '60's he took on memorable movie roles such as journalist John Finley Horton in the controversial "Black Like Me,"* in which Horton took on the appearance of a black man in order to gain the understanding of what the black population was going through. He also later played the President of the Assembly in *"Planet of the Apes."* The '70's gave him a new direction: Performing one-man stage shows portraying such inspired notables as Will Rogers in *"Will Rogers' USA"* in 1972, Harry Truman in *"Give 'em Hell, Harry!"* in 1975, and Theodore Roosevelt in *"Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt"* in 1978. He later turned in Oscar-worthy performance with his touching role as an aged, ill-fated prison parolee in *"The Shawshank Redemption"* . He copped an Emmy for his role of Raymond Oz on *"The Practice."*