Bob Denver, TV's 'Gilligan,' dies at 70 *merged*

[Digiital]

http://us.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/denver.obit.ap/index.html

[dbusguy]

R.I.P. Little Buddy

[Dr.Dan]

:eek: http://www.mysmilie.de/english/green/smilies/sad/img/030.gif

[Swordfish]

OMG! I used to watch that show RIP :(

[masher]

He was a man of many talents, but most remember him for only one.

Bob Denver, the comedic actor who turned the one-named Gilligan into a TV icon on the sitcom “Gilligan’s Island”, has died.

His agent says Denver passed away in a North Carolina hospital last Friday.

The actor was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1935. He was attending college with his future “Dobie Gillis” co-star Dwayne Hickman when the acting bug bit.

But he first became a high school math teacher, just in case the precarious thespian life he hoped for didn’t add up.

He needn’t have worried.

Denver got one of the most notorious roles in TV on his first audition and never looked back.

Long before he was stranded with his fellow castaways on that eponymous isle, he played television’s first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs, on the classic “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”.

Maynard was a true original, a teen who hated the establishment and would always have spasms whenever he heard the word ‘work’. The show ran from 1959-1963.

It was only a year later that he landed the role that would earn him lasting fame, after being cast as the inept first mate on board the Minnow, which set out on a three hour tour and never really came back.

“Gilligan’s Island” was a show the critics universally despised and that viewers - especially kids – loved. It became a staple of mid-60s TV and finally went to rerun heaven in 1967.

It’s rarely been off the air since.

Several “Return to Gilligan’s Island” movies were made, but with the age of its stars and the loss of key cast members to illness and death - including Alan Hale Jr. (The Skipper) and Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III)- the franchise finally came to an end.

But it’s apparent this is one show that will have a long afterlife - a new reality series putting contestants in the role of the characters has recently aired in the U.S.

Later Denver shows, like the hilariously wonderful but rarely seen “The Good Guys” - in which he played a taxi driver named Rufus Butterworth - or “Dusty’s Trail” a disappointing western farce with Forrest Tucker, failed to catch fire and were quickly cancelled.

Denver was the polar opposite from his character, a mild mannered man with a keen intellect who loved to read books on a variety of topics.

But he never ran from his Gilligan past, always embracing the joy it seemed to bring to so many and frequently appearing in many tribute shows around the continent wearing his trademark sailor's cap.

His family recalls a man of great depth. “Our lives will never be the same without him,” a message on the star’s website reads. “There are no words to describe how much his wisdom and gentleness will be missed.”

Denver underwent quadruple bypass surgery earlier this year, although the cause of his death has been attributed to complications from cancer treatments.

He leaves behind a wife, three former spouses and four children. All his kids were by his bedside when he died.

"He was my everything and I will love him forever," Dreama Denver noted in a statement.

Bob Denver was only 70 years old.

[Just Doug1]

Anyone over forty will likely know the words to the theme from Gilligans Island.

[Bluvertigo]

This has been posted already.

http://www.thecomputermechanics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3040&highlight=Gilligan

[masher]

well excuse me for being lazy and not searching :P

[Limey32]

Anyone over forty will likely know the words to the theme from Gilligans Island.

Just 32, and know it well. :( R.I.P.

[Ken_ver_1_5]

Bob Denver, whose television roles as Gilligan, the wacky first mate in "Gilligan's Island," and Maynard G. Krebs, the beatnik with a bongo in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," were first hits, then cult classics, died on Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 70.

full story here

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/arts/television/07denver.html



I grew up with him on tv.

oh mods merge this for me:)

[Ken_ver_1_5]

I grew up with him on the tv.
oh and soon to come to this post
is mine:)

[Swordfish]

I remember comming home from School and watching Gilligans Island,Hogans Heros,and Star Trek

[Ken_ver_1_5]

me too Swordy if interested the first season of Hogans Hero's is available
on dvd saw it at walmart wish I could afford it....

[Swordfish]

me too Swordy if interested the first season of Hogans Hero's is available
on dvd saw it at walmart wish I could afford it....

I get some of the shows on expressVu its great seeing them again :)

[dbusguy]

me too Swordy if interested the first season of Hogans Hero's is available
on dvd saw it at walmart wish I could afford it....


I've got them :d

Love HH :)

[Ken_ver_1_5]

I've got them :d

Love HH :)bragger:d