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Actor James Noble has died at the age of 94. The New York Times has confirmed his death at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut, on Monday, March 28, 2016. Noble is perhaps best known for his role as the affable, bumbling Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling, on the Benson TV series, which was cancelled after seven seasons by ABC, only after that final season ended on a network requested cliffhanger.
Noble also played Raymond Voss on the 1988 CBS sitcom, First Impressions, starring Brad Garrett, which was cancelled after just five of eight completed episodes aired, that fall. Much of Noble's early TV work was on now long-cancelled soap operas including The Brighter Day, The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, Another World, The Doctors, and One Life to Live.
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Actor James Noble has died at the age of 94. The New York Times has confirmed his death at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut, on Monday, March 28, 2016. Noble is perhaps best known for his role as the affable, bumbling Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling, on the Benson TV series, which was cancelled after seven seasons by ABC, only after that final season ended on a network requested cliffhanger.
Noble also played Raymond Voss on the 1988 CBS sitcom, First Impressions, starring Brad Garrett, which was cancelled after just five of eight completed episodes aired, that fall. Much of Noble's early TV work was on now long-cancelled soap operas including The Brighter Day, The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, Another World, The Doctors, and One Life to Live.
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- 3/29/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Patty Duke has died at the age of 69, TheWrap has learned. The cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine. “She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be greatly missed,” said her manager in a statement. Also Read: Patty Duke: Hollywood Stars Mourn Loss of 'Wonderful Friend' Duke started her career as a child actress on the daytime soap opera “The Brighter Day,” and ion 1963, she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for “The Miracle Worker” when she was just 16, becoming.
- 3/29/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
On this date in...
1949: The radio version of The Brighter Day aired its final episode on NBC Radio. It moved to CBS Radio the following Monday. Typical of an Irna Phillips soap, the show opened with an epigraph: Our years are as the falling leaves -- we live, we love, we dream, and then we go. But somehow we keep hoping, don't we, that our dreams come true on that brighter day.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Kevin Bacon (ex-Tim, Guiding Light; ex-Todd, Search For Tomorrow) - 53
David Elliott (ex-Billy, The Doctors) - 52
Valarie Pettiford (ex-Shelia, One Life To Live; ex-Courtney, Another World) - 51
Michael Weatherly (ex-Cooper, Loving/The City) - 43...
1949: The radio version of The Brighter Day aired its final episode on NBC Radio. It moved to CBS Radio the following Monday. Typical of an Irna Phillips soap, the show opened with an epigraph: Our years are as the falling leaves -- we live, we love, we dream, and then we go. But somehow we keep hoping, don't we, that our dreams come true on that brighter day.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Kevin Bacon (ex-Tim, Guiding Light; ex-Todd, Search For Tomorrow) - 53
David Elliott (ex-Billy, The Doctors) - 52
Valarie Pettiford (ex-Shelia, One Life To Live; ex-Courtney, Another World) - 51
Michael Weatherly (ex-Cooper, Loving/The City) - 43...
- 7/8/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
New York Post: What death of the soap opera says about our economy, unions
Union super-minimum wages lead directly to high unemployment. AFTRA requires each of the main performers to be paid at least $913 a day, but stars get much more.
Seventeen Writers Guild jobs disappear when the two ABC soaps go dark. They aren’t getting paid in Palmolive, either. Head writers (of whom there might be more than one) get at least $35,345 a week. Writing expenses are minimal on reality, which the WGA hasn’t successfully penetrated yet.
An AFTRA source who didn’t want to be identified says, “We’re certainly mindful of the challenges the industry faces,” although not mindful enough to back down on their main goal: “We want to increase pay and benefits for our members.”
Hundreds of Iatse members are going to be out of work. Even unionized reality programs like ABC’s...
Union super-minimum wages lead directly to high unemployment. AFTRA requires each of the main performers to be paid at least $913 a day, but stars get much more.
Seventeen Writers Guild jobs disappear when the two ABC soaps go dark. They aren’t getting paid in Palmolive, either. Head writers (of whom there might be more than one) get at least $35,345 a week. Writing expenses are minimal on reality, which the WGA hasn’t successfully penetrated yet.
An AFTRA source who didn’t want to be identified says, “We’re certainly mindful of the challenges the industry faces,” although not mindful enough to back down on their main goal: “We want to increase pay and benefits for our members.”
Hundreds of Iatse members are going to be out of work. Even unionized reality programs like ABC’s...
- 4/24/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Nicholas Pryor (ex-Victor, Port Charles; ex-Joel, The Edge Of Night; ex-Linc, All My Children, ex-Ted, Another World; ex-Paul, Love Is A Many Spendored Thing; ex-Johnny, The Secret Storm; The Brighter Day) - 76
John Beck (ex-Bruce, Passions; ex-Sam, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Mark, Dallas; ex-Sam, Flamingo Road) - 68
Keith Hamilton Cobb (ex-Damon, The Young And The Restless; ex-Noah, All My Children) - 49
Terri Conn (Aubrey, One Life To Live; ex-Katie, As The World Turns) - 36...
John Beck (ex-Bruce, Passions; ex-Sam, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Mark, Dallas; ex-Sam, Flamingo Road) - 68
Keith Hamilton Cobb (ex-Damon, The Young And The Restless; ex-Noah, All My Children) - 49
Terri Conn (Aubrey, One Life To Live; ex-Katie, As The World Turns) - 36...
- 1/28/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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