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Where Are They Now - Friday, February 6, 2015
Hello fans, I hope everyone is getting through this first week of February. We've been hit with snow in the Midwest, making for lots of shoveling fun.
This Friday, we shall take a look at the career of actor Tony Burton, and find out what he is up to now.
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Meshach Taylor: He played Anthony Bouvier on the TV series "Designing Women" and Sheldon Baylor on the series "Dave's World"
Rene Auberjonois: Played Clayton Endicott on the TV series "Benson" and Odo, the security chief, on the series "Star Trek: Deep Space 9"
Colleen Dewhurst: She appeared in the movie "Annie Hall" and the TV miniseries "Anne of Green Gables" and played Murphy's mother on the TV series "Murphy Brown
(Answer at the bottom)*Tony BurtonLearn More About Tony Burton on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: March 23, 1937, Flint, Michigan, U.S.
CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the Rocky series.
FAMILY LIFE: Is currently married. Info on his wife could not be found.
INFO: After a football and boxing career, as well as a three and a half year stint in prison for robbery, Burton began working with small theater companies in and around Los Angeles.
Some of his credits inclduing a role on the 1980s CBS comedy-drama Frank's Place, and parts in films such as Hook, The Toy, and John Carpenter's action film Assault on Precinct 13. He is well-known for starring in the Rocky films as a trainer to Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) and Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone).
TRIVIA: Was a Michigan Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and two-time all-state football player.
In 1993, Burton was inducted into the Greater Flint Afro-American Hall of Fame.
Posted a 16-3 professional boxing record and held the Light-Heavyweight Championship of Arizona.
Along with Sylvester Stallone and Burt Young, he is the only other actor to have appeared in all six 'Rocky' movies.
Did three and a half years in prison for robbery at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California.
Is known as a talented chess player.
WHERE IS HE NOW: He has been living in California for nearly 40 years. He is married and currently attends Immanuel Baptist Church in Highland, California.
* CREDITS:2007 Hack!...Sheriff Stoker
2007 Boxing Bloopers (Video short)...Duke (uncredited)
2006 Rocky Balboa...Duke
2003 Mercy Peak (TV Series)...Norm Somerville
- When Ken Met Wendy (2003)
- Woodpile
2003 Exorcism...Bishop Harris
2003 Shade...Fedora
2001 The Lot (TV Series)...Jerome Jeter
- Nebraska Johnston (2001)
2000/I Knockout...Segent Hawkins
1999 Jackson's Wharf (TV Series)...Calder Jackson
- Jackson's Return (1999)
1998 The Magnificent Seven (TV Series)...Tennessee Eban
- Ghosts of the Confederacy (1998)
1997 Farticus
1997 Flipping...Chuckie, 2-2 Card Club Manager
1996 Chicago Hope (TV Series)...Dr. Joseph Little
- Divided Loyalty (1996)
1996 Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series)...Simon Walters
- The Inheritance (1996)
1996 The Enid Blyton Adventure Series (TV Series)...Jake
- Island of Adventure (1996) ... Jake
1996 Black Rose of Harlem...Turner
1996 NYPD Blue (TV Series)...Floyd Gates
- Burnin' Love (1996)
1995 Fatal Choice...Columbus
1995 Cyber-Tracker 2 (Video)...Swain
1995 Private Obsession...Sergeant Jim Lytel
1993 Renegade (TV Series)...Ronnie's Friend
- Val's Song (1993)
1992 Absent Without Leave...Constable
1992 The Bulkin Trail (TV Short)...Music Teacher
1992 Mission of Justice...Cedric Williams
1992 Shortland Street (TV Series)...Joe Bennett (1998)
1991 Hook...Bill Jukes
1991 Life Goes On (TV Series)...Marquis
- Loaded Question (1991)
1991 House Party 2...Mr. Lee
1991 Twin Peaks (TV Series)...Colonel Riley
- Episode #2.12 (1991)
1990 Rocky V...Duke
1990 Over My Dead Body (TV Series)...Curly
- Dad and Buried (1990)
1990 Equal Justice (TV Series)...Mr. Ford
- Sugar Blues (1990)
1990 Side Out...Louie
1990 A Different World (TV Series)...Cap Connors
- A Camp Fire Story (1990)
1990 In the Heat of the Night (TV Series)...Conrad 'King' Baylor
- King's Ransom (1990)
1989 Amen (TV Series)...Off. Anderson
- TV or Not TV (1989)
1988 Police Story: Cop Killer (TV Movie)
1987-1988 Frank's Place (TV Series)...Big Arthur
1987 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series)...Moustache
- You Ruined My Life (1987)
1987 On Fire (TV Movie)...Wintchell
1986 Oceans of Fire (TV Movie)...Clay
1986 Armed and Dangerous...Cappy
1986 The Paper Chase (TV Series)
- Mistaken Identity (1986)
1982-1986 The Fall Guy (TV Series)...Eddie Barber / Algebra Jones
- The Bigger They Are (1986) ... Eddie Barber
- Ladies on the Ropes (1982) ... Algebra Jones
1986 Airwolf (TV Series)...Moose
- Wildfire (1986)
1985 Rocky IV...Duke
1985 Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story (TV Movie)...Grif
1985 Moonlighting (TV Series)...Bartender
- Gunfight at the So-So Corral (1985)
1984 The A-Team (TV Series)...Burke
- It's a Desert Out There (1984)
1983 Happy (TV Movie)...Lt. J.L. Stevens
1982 The Toy...Stanley (uncredited)
1982 T.J. Hooker (TV Series)...Luther
- Blind Justice (1982)
1982 Rocky III...Duke
1982 Bret Maverick (TV Series)...Arthur
- Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 2 (1982)
- Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 1 (1982)
1981 Quincy M.E. (TV Series)...Starvin' Marvin
- Dead Stop (1981)
1981 CHiPs (TV Series)...Avrom
- Mitchell & Woods (1981)
1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)...Curley
- Hog Wild (1981) ... Curley
1981 Fitz and Bones (TV Series)...Sid
- Terror at Newsline 3 (1981)
1980 Inside Moves...Lucius
1980 Stir Crazy...Guy who Punches Big Mean (uncredited)
1980 Scared Straight! Another Story (TV Movie)...Rafer
1980 The Hunter...Garbageman #2
1980 The Shining...Larry Durkin
1980 White Mama (TV Movie)...Black Fighter
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series)...Skeeter McClintock
- Savage Says: There's No Free Lunch (1980)
1980 Skag (TV Series)
- Pilot (1980)
1979 Rocky II...Apollo's Trainer
1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)...Taylor George
- Like a Brother (1979)
1978 Blackjack...Charles
1978 CPO Sharkey (TV Series)...Scotty
- Tell It to the Marines (1978)
1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series)...Gilmore Lee
- The Lady on Thursday at Ten (1978)
1977 Beyond Reason...Dangerman
1977 Heroes...Chef
1977 The Rockford Files (TV Series)...Joe Moran
- Second Chance (1977)
1977 Kill Me If You Can (TV Movie)...Price
1977 Ransom for Alice! (TV Movie)...Fish Man
1977 Sanford and Son (TV Series)...Guard
- Fred the Activist (1977)
1977 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series)...Manager
- The Infiltrators (1977)
1977 Switch (TV Series)...Joey
- The Snitch (1977)
1976 Gibbsville (TV Series)
- All the Young Girls (1976)
1976 Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV Mini-Series)...Karl
- Part II (1976) ... Karl
- Part I (1976) ... Karl
1976 Rocky...Apollo's Trainer
1976 Assault on Precinct 13...Wells
1976 Gemini Man (TV Mini-Series)...Moore
- Eight-Nine-Ten, You're Dead (1976)
1976 Good Times (TV Series)...Aide
- Evans Versus Davis (1976)
1976 Delvecchio (TV Series)...Clarence
- Board of Rights (1976) ... (uncredited)
- The Avenger (1976) ... Clarence
1976 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings...Issac, All-Star (CF)(C)
1976 Trackdown...Zelds
1976 The River Niger...Black Policeman
1976 Harry O (TV Series)...Peter Macklin
- Ruby (1976)
1975 Baretta (TV Series)...Teak
- Count the Days I'm Gone (1975)
1975 The Invisible Man (TV Series)...3rd Prisoner
- Go Directly to Jail (1975)
1974 Kojak (TV Series)...Eddie Ellis
- The Betrayal (1974)
1974 The Black Godfather...Sonny Spyder Brown
To see Then & Now pictures of Tony Burton, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Meshach Taylor - DEAD
Born: 04/11/1947 Died: 06/28/2014
Rene Auberjonois - ALIVE
Born: 06/01/1940
Colleen Dewhurst - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 06/03/1924 Died: 08/22/1991
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...2/3
Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player
(national team).
Hay List, 9, Australian thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized following laminitis.
Carlos Noguera, 71, Venezuelan writer and psychologist.
Ion Nunweiller, 79, Romanian football player and manager (Dinamo), triple Cupa Romaniei winner (1959, 1964, 1968).
Nasim Hasan Shah, 86, Pakistani judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (1993-1994).
2/2
Joseph Alfidi, 64, American pianist, composer and conductor.
Dave Bergman, 61, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers), bile duct cancer.
Tibor Bitskey, 85, Hungarian actor.
Dalmo Gaspar, 82, Brazilian footballer (Santos).
The Jacka, 37, American rapper, shot.
Alekos Kitsakis (el), 81, Greek folk singer.
Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), traffic collision.
Roy Little, 83, English footballer (Manchester City).
Molade Okoya-Thomas, 79, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.
Karl-Erik Palmer, 85, Swedish footballer (Malmo, national team).
Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
Henryk Szczepanski, 81, Polish football player and coach.
2/1
Aldo Ciccolini, 89, Italian-born French pianist.
Ron Johnson, 76, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), aneurysm.
Julius Ludorf, 95, German football player and coach.
Jos van Manen Pieters (nl), 84, Dutch writer.
Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.
Isa Munayev, 49, Chechen militant.
Monty Oum, 33, American animator (Red vs. Blue, RWBY), severe allergic reaction.
Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, 91, British engineer and politician.
Michael Saward, 82, British Anglican priest and hymnist.
Viktor Shekhovtsev (ru), 74, Soviet footballer.
Jos Suijkerbuijk, 85, Dutch professional road bicycle racer.
1/31
Jose Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo Planeta (since 2003) and Atresmedia (since 2012), pancreatic cancer.
Tomás Bulat, 50, Argentine economist and journalist, traffic collision.
Kenji Goto, 47, Japanese journalist and ISIS hostage, beheading.
Vic Howe, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
William Klinger, 42, Croatian historian, shot.
Adalberto Arturo Rosat, 81, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Aiquile (1986-2009).
Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, German politician, President of West Germany (1984-1990) and Germany (1990-1994).
1/30
Ricardo Bressani, 88, Guatemalan food scientist, heart attack.
Don Covay, 76, American R&B singer and songwriter ("Chain of Fools").
Carl Djerassi, 91, Austrian-American chemist, novelist and playwright, cancer.
Juan Carlos Galván (es), 83, Argentine actor.
Harold Hassall, 85, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
John Hopkins, 78, British photographer, activist, and promoter (Notting Hill Carnival, International Times).
Marie Jensen, 110, Danish supercentenarian, nation's oldest person.
Ülo Kaevats, 67, Estonian philosopher and politician, Secretary of State (1992-1995).
Jack Kay, 63, American academic and college administrator.
Geraldine McEwan, 82, British actress (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Agatha Christie's Marple), stroke.
John McHugh, 84, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio (1990-1993), cancer.
Howard Norris, 80, British rugby union player (Wales national team, British Lions).
Richard Richards, 82, American politician, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1981-1983).
Jerry L. Smith, 71, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1972-1980) and Senate (1980-2004).
Gerrit Voorting, 92, Dutch professional road bicycle racer, Olympic silver medalist (1948).
Than Wyenn (it), 95, American actor (Imitation of Life, Splash, The Six Million Dollar Man).
Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, Bulgarian politician, President (1990-1997).
1/29
Maurizio Arcieri, 72, Italian singer (The New Dada, Krisma).
Amparo Baro, 77, Spanish actress (Siete mesas de billar frances), cancer.
Subhash Ghisingh, 78, Indian politician (Gorkha National Liberation Front), cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Walter Glechner, 75, Austrian footballer (Rapid Wien, national team).
Bernice Gordon, 101, American crossword writer (The New York Times), heart failure.
Taeko Kono, 88, Japanese writer and critic, respiratory failure.
Cedric Kushner, 66, South African-born American boxing promoter, heart attack.
Jose Martins da Silva, 78, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho (1982-1997).
Will McBride, 84, American photographer.
Colleen McCullough, 77, Australian author (The Thorn Birds), renal failure.
Rod McKuen, 81, American poet, singer and songwriter ("Jean", "Seasons in the Sun"), respiratory arrest.
Kel Nagle, 94, Australian golfer, British Open champion (1960).
Paul Panhuysen, 80, Dutch composer.
Dora Prince (es), 84, Argentine actress.
Derek Robertson, 65, Scottish footballer (St. Johnstone), cancer.
Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, Japanese politician, member of the Diet (1946-1952).
Ole Sorensen, 77, Danish footballer.
Alexander Vraciu, 96, American World War II Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient.
Israel Yinon, 59, Israeli conductor.
1/28
Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, Nigerian army officer.
Arthur Lawrence Alarcon, 89, American federal judge.
Mala Aravindan, 76, Indian Malayalam actor.
Alberto Cardaccio, 65, Uruguayan footballer (Danubio, national team), traffic collision.
Yves Chauvin, 84, Belgian-born French Nobel Prize-winning chemist (2005).
Lionel Gilbert, 90, Australian historian, author, curator, lecturer, and biographer.
Neyko Nenov, 53, Bulgarian general, Deputy Chief of Defence (since 2014), brain tumor.
Jaswant Singh Rajput, 88, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion (1948).
Vagif Samadoglu (az), 75, Azerbaijani poet.
Edward Saylor, 94, American World War II veteran, member of Doolittle's Raiders.
Lee Simms, 72, American disc jockey (KRLA, KROQ-FM, KCBQ, WPOP), suicide by gunshot.