Obituaries for 2019

[Gefn]

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Tim Conway has died at the age of 85

[Gefn]

Boy all these greats passing. So sad

I really liked his “Mr Tuttle” character on the Carol Burnett show”

[godblessRonaldReagan]

@libertybele
When I came to have a thing for old-time radio twenty years ago or so, I started listening to some of the radio westerns.

I now believe the best of those westerns beats any television western ever. (Except, maybe, The Virginian.) Including:

Gunsmoke (The radio original is way better than the television version, which used a lot of the radio scripts, by the way, and it had a far different and more effective cast: William Conrad as Matt Dillon; Georgia Ellis as Kitty; Parley Baer as Chester; Howard McNear as Doc.)

The Six Shooter (Jimmy Stewart in the title role of a laconic traveler throughout the old west; the series' Christmas episode, "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol," is a classic. And its choice of "The Highland Lament" for its theme music was the most inspired theme of any western, radio or television.)

Frontier Gentleman (John Dehner as a London Times reporter traveling through the old west and packing a swift gun himself when need be.)

Fort Laramie (Not to be confused with NBC-TV's eventual hit Western Laramie; it starred Raymond Burr as a Cavalry captain; if you listen closely enough, you could consider it his season-long audition for Perry Mason, since his character Lee Quince had a lot of Mason's traits.)

I love Gunsmoke & Fort Laramie. Another one I like is Tales of the Texas Rangers. It has a modern setting, but still has plenty of western flavor.

[Gefn]

Found the Variety obit


https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/tim-conway-comedian-and-carol-burnett-show-star-dies-at-85-1203214644/

[sneakypete]

Another one. Breaking

Tim Conway has died at the age of 85

@Freya

That one hurts. He and Harvey Korman were why the old Carol Burnette Show was so hysterically funny. Absolute comic genius and timing that still holds up today if you can find it on local programming. Carol Burnette was no slouch herself when it came to comedy,but when she added these two guys it was off the charts hilarious.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Freya

That one hurts. He and Harvey Korman were why the old Carol Burnette Show was so hysterically funny. Absolute comic genius and timing that still holds up today if you can find it on local programming. Carol Burnette was no slouch herself when it came to comedy,but when she added these two guys it was off the charts hilarious.

MeTV runs it.

[Gefn]

@sneakypete

They say it goes in threes. I hope this streak ends with two,

I’m sad over the last two, especially Tim Conway. I liked Carol Burnette show when I was a kid.

[jmyrlefuller]

Another one. Breaking

Tim Conway has died at the age of 85

Tim Conway
Comic legend dies at 85



Bluffing his way into a director's job in Cleveland (alongside his first comic partner Ernie Anderson) got the former Tom Conway (he changed his name to Tim to avoid confusion with the detective actor of the same name) his first break in show business. Although many of his individual comic efforts have earned him fame and acclaim (including his famous diminutive Dorf character, which he used for home video shorts in the 1980s and 1990s), he is best known for his frequent collaborations:

- With Ernest Borgnine, he was a cast member of McHale's Navy and later reunited with Borgnine as elderly superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons.
- With Don Knotts, he starred in the live-action Disney feature The Apple Dumpling Gang. Both Knotts and Conway had been cast members on The Steve Allen Show.
- With Harvey Korman, he formed a particularly long-lasting double act that became a regular feature on The Carol Burnett Show.

In most of these, Conway played his role with understated absurdity, showing a knack for making his co-stars over the years break into uncontrollable laughter with his antics.

Conway continued to work until about a year before his death, with his last role being Sponge out of Water, in which producers noted his declining health; he was diagnosed with senile dementia in 2018 and, after a custody battle, died May 14.

Obituary from People

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[Ghost Bear]

Because someone had to post it... Tim Conway and Harvey Korman in "The Dentist" skit:


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[verga]

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Tim Conway has died at the age of 85

My two favorites were the dentist and the baby elephant.

[Polly Ticks]

My two favorites were the dentist and the baby elephant.

The baby elephant one was absolutely hysterical.


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[libertybele]

@Freya

That one hurts. He and Harvey Korman were why the old Carol Burnette Show was so hysterically funny. Absolute comic genius and timing that still holds up today if you can find it on local programming. Carol Burnette was no slouch herself when it came to comedy,but when she added these two guys it was off the charts hilarious.

Indeed, off the charts hilarious.  Who can forget the 'Dentist' skit?


www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_C3bO8WZ0

[Applewood]

Another of the great comedians gone.     

My favorite  Harvey Korman and Tim Conway bits were the "Oldest" skits.  Here is the Oldest Fireman.  Poor Harvey could not stop laughing himself silly:


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Rest in peace, Tim Conway.

[Wingnut]

At around the  7 min mark Carol gets even with Tim for the Elephant story!

 
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[truth_seeker]

Another one. Breaking

Tim Conway has died at the age of 85

Tim Conway's son, Tim Conway Jr. is a big radio performer, on a very large Los Angeles AM station, KFI.

We were sitting together in our kitchen, listening to KFI when they announced his death.

Tim Conway Sr. took his kids to the horse races, at Santa Anita. (My wife's father took his kids to Santa Anita, too)

They don't make them like Tim Conway Sr. any more.

[Gefn]

Kinda off topic but the “Gone with the wind” sketch was very funny too.

[jmyrlefuller]

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[Applewood]

Kinda off topic but the “Gone with the wind” sketch was very funny too.

Yes indeed.  Some years ago, I saw the drapery dress worn by Carol Burnett at the Smithsonian and nearly fell over laughing.   My traveling companion is a good bit younger than I and wasn't familiar with the Carol Burnett Show.  She couldn't understand why I was laughing so hard.  That dress was perhaps the best sight gag ever.   I understand the sketch had to be stopped when Burnett appeared in that dress -- the audience was laughing so hard, the cast couldn't go on with the bit. 

Everyone on that show was brilliant.  It's unfortunate there are no great tv comedies like that anymore.  And as these wonderful comedians leave us, we are left with nothing and no one on tv truly funny anymore.

[Wingnut]

Kinda off topic but the “Gone with the wind” sketch was very funny too.

Dead pan humor on the delivery of the best  line was pure comic gold...hell it was wonderful. 


Rat Butler: You, you vixen, you. Starlet, I love you. That-that-that gown is gorgeous!

Starlet O'Hara: Thank you. I saw it in the window, and I just couldn't resist it.

[berdie]

I thought Doris Day passing was sad. She was a good actress that you didn't have to worry about ripping he clothes off or spouting the F bomb.  I like that and the fact that she was a huge animal activist.

Tim Conway is heartbreaking.  He was hysterical.  There aren't many funny guys these days.

[sneakypete]

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My two favorites were the dentist and the baby elephant.

@verga

Despite being MUCH younger then,I think I wet myself a little watching the elephant sketch.

One of the funniest men to have ever lived. Carol Burnett was pretty good herself,but I watched her show religiously to see Conway and Korman do their thing.

[Applewood]

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One of my cousins, an avid golfer, has the Dorf series on DVD.  They are a hoot.

[Smokin Joe]

Boy all these greats passing. So sad

I really liked his “Mr Tuttle” character on the Carol Burnett show”

My favorite was the Dentist skit.
He was fun in McHale's Navy, too.

[Free Vulcan]

'Missus A'Wiggins'

RIP Mr. Conway. Thanks for all the laughs.

He seemed ageless, hard to believe he was old enough to have fought in the Korean War.

I think the best parts of the show was when he made Korman lose it.

[jmyrlefuller]

I.M. Pei
Architect famed for his modernist glass designs dies at 102



Active primarily from the 1960s through the 1980s, Pei's work included the National Centers for Atmospheric Research, the Kennedy Library, Dallas City Hall, the Newhouse School of Journalism at Syracuse University, what is now James Brown Arena in Augusta, GA; the John Hancock Tower in Boston; the Javits Convention Center in New York City; the pyramid that serves as entrance to the Louvre in France, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Obituary from TMZ

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