Per Mr. Haney:
Recently a Shatner appearance got me thinking. How many actors who appeared in the original “Twilight Zone” are still with us?
Off the top of my head I could name Shatner, Robert Redford and Carol Burnett. A little digging and I found that Robert Duvall had acted in one of the one hour episodes that I don’t recall. The beautiful Ruta Lee is still living and probably only ever displayed some cleavage but I would love to be proven wrong. I thought another lovely blond, Kathie Browne, was still living but I learned she has passed. I think I had her name confused with another actress whose name I can’t recall right now. And of course more of the child actors are still living, including Billy Mumy, Mary Badham, Ron Howard and Veronica Cartwright. I’m sure I could have found others with a little more digging.
Maybe some of the learned readers of this blog can chip in with some other names. Or even some of the unlearned.
Scoop’s note: Shat’s mortal enemy, George Takei, comes immediately to mind. If Shatner is this site’s honorary thunder god, then Takei is my Loki.
How could you forget little Suzanne Cupito? Better known as Morgan Brittany.
Do you know the episode title or give a description? The page I found lists the names but not the episodes for some dumb reason
Wikipedia says:
Of course after I posted this I found an IMDB page that lists 65 actors still living, including Ann Jillian who I would have sworn was dead. And how could I have forgotten Sherry Jackson, who I lusted after before I knew what that was. Some surprises there and of course some unknowns. Anyway, the link for those interested,
So Earl Holliman is still alive. That means there’s still time for a “Police Woman” reboot since Angie is still available. This time their Hoverounds are equipped with blue lights, sirens, and tasers and Angie goes undercover as a pole dancer in an old folks’ home to expose corruption in the bingo games and stop leaks in the adult diaper research department. A sure-fire hit.
Trivia sidenote: there’s a Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode “The Glass Eye” from 1957 that has Shatner and Rosemary Harris, who is also still with us at the age of 96. It’s the episode where Jessica Tandy falls in love with a ventriloquist. It also had child actor Paul Playdon in it who just died last year. He later went on to become a TV writer and co-create the show CHiPs.
Charles BRONSON And Elizabeth Montgomery were in one episode, they were on opposite sides of WWIII. James Whitmore was in a coupe of episodes also Billy Mummy was in a few.
The actors you listed are not still living, except for Billy Mumy, who I named in my original post.
Bill Mumy , Stephen Talbot was a child actor now a producer, Mary Badham she played scout in to kill a mockingbird, Carol Burnett,, Shelly Fabares,, Jean Marsh
Right, I named Billy, Carol, and Mary in my original post. Shelly Fabares was a babe, like I said about Sherry Jackson. I guess Sherry is the only Twilight Zone actor who did nudity besides Shatner. Although it’s not too late for Carol Burnett and Ruta Lee. Uh, wait, yes it is. Oh, who am I kidding, I’d still look.
Just realized I left out Veronica Cartwright, who probably did the most explicit nudity of any of the TZ alumni