Where Are They Now - Friday, August 31, 2018
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Gabe Kaplan: Played Mr. Kotter on the TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter"
Brian Doyle-Murray: He has appeared in numerous movies, including "JFK", "Wayne's World" and "Cabin Boy"
Rory Calhoun: Starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s, appeared in the campy classic "Hell Comes to Frogtown"
(Answer at the bottom)
Paul Petersen
Learn More About Paul Petersen on Celebrity Nooz
BIRTH DATE: September 23, 1945 in Glendale, California, USA
BIRTHNAME: William Paul Petersen
CLAIM TO FAME: Paul Petersen is an American actor, singer, novelist, and activist, best known for playing Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show.
FAMILY LIFE: Petersen has been married three times. His first marriage was to actress Brenda Benet, married in 1967 and divorced in 1970. In 1974, he married Hallie Litman with whom he had two children, divorced in 1988. In December 1992, Petersen married Rana Jo Platz. In addition to his two children from his second marriage, Petersen also has a daughter from a previous relationship.
INFO: Petersen, Shelley Fabares and James Darren recorded a "Bye Bye Birdie" album in the 1960s.
Served the United Nations as a delegate for the World Safety Organization, and represented 300,000 film workers as Vice President of the Hollywood Entertainment Labor Council.
In addition to playing siblings "Jeff" and "Trisha" on The Donna Reed Show (1958), he is the real-life big brother of Patty Petersen.
After his years as a child actor, Petersen returned to university and obtained a degree in literature. He went on to write sixteen adventure novels.
In 1990, Petersen established the organization A Minor Consideration to support child stars and other child laborers through legislation, family education, and personal intervention and counseling for those in crisis.
TRIVIA: Petersen began his show business career at the age of ten as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club.
Was allegedly fired from The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) by Walt Disney himself for "conduct unbecoming"--for bad behavior. One incident included punching the casting director in the stomach for being called a "mouse" one too many times.
Board Member for the Donna Reed Foundation, and works at the Donna Reed Festival in Denison, IA, the third week in June every year.
WHERE IS HE NOW: Petersen currently has three film projects in the works - Rabere, The Crazies, and The Executive.
DISCOGRAPHY:
1962: Lollipops and Roses
1963: Teenage Triangle
Featuring four tracks each by Paul Petersen, Shelley Fabares, and James Darren
1963: My Dad
1963: Bye Bye Birdie
Songs from the movie sung by Petersen, The Marcels, James Darren, and Shelley Fabares
1964: More Teenage Triangle
Second album featuring Petersen, Fabares, and Darren
CREDITS:
2016 Suspense (TV Series)...Castlebury
- The Peacemakers
2010 Soupernatural...CNN Producer
2010/I The Portal...Manager Rick
2009 An American Journalist (Short)...News Jock Paul / 1950s TV Voice
2007 The Will (Short)...Mark
2003 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star...Paul Petersen
1998 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series)
- The Card Game (1998)
1997 Mommy's Day...Paul Conway
1989 Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV Movie)...Stanfield
1984-1987 The New Mike Hammer (TV Series)...Clerk / Officer
- A Face in the Night (1987) ... Officer
- Hot Ice (1984) ... Clerk
- 24 Karat Dead (1984) ... Clerk
1986 The A-Team (TV Series)
- The Grey Team (1986)
1986 Interview (TV Series)...Johnny Angel
- Johnny Angel (Interview) (1986) ... Johnny Angel
1985 Finder of Lost Loves (TV Series)...Policeman
- Final Analysis
1985 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series)...Bailey
- So Little, Gone (1985) ... Bailey
1982-1985 Matt Houston (TV Series)...Cop / Policeman / Officer Fredicks /...
- The Nightmare Man (1985) ... Cop
- Vanished (1984) ... Policeman
- The Secret Admirer (1984) ... Officer Fredicks
- Criss-Cross (1984) ... Officer #3
- Love You to Death (1983) ... Cop
- A Deadly Parlay (1983) ... Detective Wilkinson
- Fear for Tomorrow (1983) ... Patrolman
- Joey's Here (1982) ... Gate Guard
1984 High School U.S.A. (TV Movie)...The Coach
1982 Strike Force (TV Series)...Officer Daley / Bluecoat / Jameson
- Chinatown (1982) ... Officer Daley
- The John Killer (1982) ... Bluecoat
- The Outcast (1982) ... Jameson (as Paul Peterson)
1980 Scout's Honor (TV Movie)...Ace's Dad
1979 Fantasy Island (TV Series)...Eugene Bodine
- Baby/Marathon: Battle of the Sexes
1978 The Next Step Beyond (TV Series)...Mitch
- Ghost Town
1972 Cannon (TV Series)...Pete Farrell
- Treasure of San Ignacio
1971 Love, American Style (TV Series)...Harold (segment "Love and the Bashful Groom")
- Love and the Awakening/Love and the Bashful Groom/Love and the Four-Sided Triangle/Love and the Naked Stranger
1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series)...Fred Cope
- Operation: Time Fuse
1971 The Smith Family (TV Series)...Paul
- The Ex-Con
1968-1970 Lassie (TV Series)...Billy Cameron / Dave Loka
- Winged Rescue (1970) ... Dave Loka
- Track of the Jaguar: Part 2 (1968) ... Billy Cameron
- Track of the Jaguar: Part 1 (1968) ... Billy Cameron
1969 Gidget Grows Up (TV Movie)...Moondoggie Griffith
1969 My Three Sons (TV Series)...Ted Winks
- Mexican Honeymoon
1968 Something for a Lonely Man (TV Movie)...Peter Duren
1968 The Big Valley (TV Series)...Roy Sanders
- The Long Ride
1968 The Flying Nun (TV Series)...Sonny Howard
- Song of Bertrille
1968 Journey to Shiloh...J.C. Sutton
1968 Mannix (TV Series)...Dean Devlin
- To Kill a Writer
1967 In the Year 2889 (TV Movie)..Steve Morrow
1967 Iron Horse (TV Series)...Frank Wyatt
- Steel Chain to a Music Box
1967 The Happiest Millionaire...Tony
1967 Custer (TV Series)...Lieutenant Cox
- Suspicion
1967 A Time for Killing...Blue Lake
1967 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV Series)...Jerry
- None So Righteous
1966 F Troop (TV Series)...Johnny Eagle Eye
- Johnny Eagle Eye
1958-1966 The Donna Reed Show (TV Series)...Jeff Stone
- All 275 episodes
1964 The Virginian (TV Series)...Dan Grant
- Another's Footsteps
1963 General Hospital (TV Series)...John Carruthers (1988)
1958 Houseboat...David Winters
1958 Day of the Badman...Little Boy (uncredited)
1957 The Monolith Monsters...Bobby - Paperboy (uncredited)
1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater (TV Series)
- Man in the Elevator
1957 This Could Be the Night...Joey (uncredited)
1956-1957 The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)...Lookout Boy / Jim Hawk as a Boy
- The Quiet Stranger (1957) ... Lookout Boy (uncredited)
- Black Jim Hawk (1956) ... Jim Hawk as a Boy
1956 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series)
- Along the Oregon Trail (1956)
To see Then & Now pictures of Paul Petersen, visit: CelebrityNooz
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Gabe Kaplan - ALIVE
Born: 03/31/1945
Brian Doyle-Murray - ALIVE
Born: 10/31/1945
Rory Calhoun - DEAD (Diabetes)
Born: 08/08/1922 Died: 04/28/1999
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
8/30
Peter Corris, 76, Australian crime novelist.
Joseph Kobzon, 80, Russian singer, People's Artist of USSR (1987), prostate cancer.
Marie Severin, 89, American Hall of Fame cartoonist (Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man), stroke.
8/29
Stan Brock, 82, British philanthropist, founder of Remote Area Medical.
Nandamuri Harikrishna, 61, Indian actor and politician, traffic collision.
Erich Lessing, 95, Austrian photographer.
Ellie Mannette, 90, Trinidadian steelpan musician.
Valentin Manokhin (ru), 77, Russian dancer, choreographer and actor (Dangerous Tour, Ma-ma, Charodei).
Sir James Mirrlees, 82, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1996).
Tom Murphy, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (1989-1996).
Carilda Oliver Labra, 96, Cuban poet.
José Ruiz Rosas (es), 90, Peruvian poet.
David J. Sugarbaker, 65, American physician.
Paul Taylor, 88, American choreographer, renal failure.
Boris Vassemirskiy, 77, Russian conductor.
8/28
Silvano Campeggi, 95, Italian film poster designer (Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, Breakfast at Tiffany's).
Jorge Demirjian (es), 86, Argentine painter.
Josep Fontana, 86, Spanish historian and academic (Pompeu Fabra University).
Gary Friedrich, 75, American comic book writer (Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, Hulk, Ghost Rider), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Andrew Hughes, 62, Australian police officer, Fijian Commissioner of Police (2003-2006), bowel cancer.
Maqbool Hussain, Pakistani war prisoner.
Tatyana Kuznetsova, 77, Soviet-born Russian cosmonaut.
Nestorius Timanywa, 81, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bukoba (1973-2013).
Szczepan Wesoly, 91, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (1968-2003).
8/27
John Asher, 62, American racetrack spokesman (Churchill Downs) and radio journalist (WHAS, WAVE), heart attack.
Zé Béttio (pt), 92, Brazilian composer.
Henri Bollinger, 89, American publicist.
Dale M. Cochran, 89, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa (1987-1999), member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1965-1987).
Paixão Côrtes (pt), 91, Brazilian folklorist.
Rohan Daluwatte, 77, Sri Lankan Army general, heart attack.
Tina Fuentes, 34, Spanish Olympic synchronised swimmer (2004), cancer.
Ahmad Hasan Ihsan, Indonesian Islamic preacher.
Józef Kossowski, 83, Polish violinist.
Aya Koyama, 45, Japanese professional wrestler (BJW, AJW) and mixed martial artist, cancer.
Guna Mahanta, 70, Indian actor (Adhinayak).
Henry McNamara, 83, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1985-2008).
S. Nagoor Meeran, 55, Indian politician, renal failure.
Mirka Mora, 90, French-born Australian artist and cultural figure, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Iolanda Nanni, 49, Italian politician, Deputy (since 2018), cancer.
Ron Newman, 82, British-born American soccer player (Atlanta Chiefs, Fort Lauderdale Strikers) and manager (San Diego Sockers).
Alfonso Osorio, 94, Spanish military lawyer and politician, Minister of Presidency (1975-1977) and Second Vice President (1975-1977).
Michael Pickwoad, 73, British production designer (Doctor Who, Withnail and I).
Emil Rachev, 28, Bulgarian footballer (Burgas, Neftochimic Burgas, Rozova Dolina), heart attack.
Fredd Wayne, 93, American actor (The Spiral Road, Hangup, Bewitched).
Rupert Webb, 96, English cricketer (Sussex).
Murray Westgate, 100, Canadian actor (Happy Birthday to Me, Blue City Slammers, Scanners II: The New Order).
8/26
Alyosha Abrahamyan, 72, Armenian footballer (Ararat Yerevan).
Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, 66, Mexican jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003-2006), heart attack.
Martin van Beek, 58, Dutch politician (PVV), traffic collision.
Inge Borkh, 97, German soprano.
Gopal Bose, 71, Indian cricketer (Bengal, national team), heart attack.
Rosa Bouglione, 107, French circus performer.
Carlo Della Corna, 66, Italian football player (Varese, Udinese) and manager (Voghera), cancer.
Barrie Dunsmore, 79, American journalist (ABC News).
Odysseus Eskitzoglou, 86, Greek sailor, Olympic champion (1960).
K. K. Haridas, 52, Indian film director (Vadhu Doctoranu), heart attack.
Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect.
Tony Hiller, 91, British songwriter ("United We Stand", "Save Your Kisses for Me", "Figaro") and producer.
Cristina Marsans, 72, Spanish golfer.
Henrique Martins (pt), 84, Brazilian actor and film director.
Thomas J. O'Brien, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phoenix (1982-2003), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Hamsad Rangkuti, 75, Indonesian writer, complications from a stroke.
Neil Simon, 91, American playwright (Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple) and screenwriter (The Goodbye Girl), Tony winner (1965, 1985, 1991), complications from pneumonia.
8/25
Florian Beigel, 76, German architect, cardiac arrest.
Stan Black, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), traffic collision.
Dieudonné Bogmis, 63, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Éséka (since 2004), stroke.
Ruth Finley, 98, American publisher (The Fashion Calendar), respiratory failure.
S. H. Hasbullah, 67, Sri Lankan geographer and academic, heart attack.
Lindsay Kemp, 80, English dancer, choreographer (Ziggy Stardust) and actor (The Wicker Man, Valentino).
Henryk Kucharski (pl), 95, Polish firefighter, social worker and WWII veteran.
Marlene Lanz, 74, Canadian Métis activist and politician.
Karl F. Lopker, 66, American business executive (QAD, Deckers), prostate cancer.
John McCain, 81, American politician and Navy officer, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1987) and House of Representatives (1983-1987), glioblastoma.
Hari Chand Middha, 76, Indian politician, heart attack.
Kyle Pavone, 28, American rock vocalist (We Came as Romans).
Tadeusz Rudolf (pl), 92, Polish economist and politician, Minister of Labor and Social Policy (1974-1979)
Barbara Russell, 85, American actress (Day of the Dead, Narrow Margin, Money for Nothing).
Noam Sheriff, 83, Israeli composer and conductor, heart attack.
Eugenio Tarabini, 88, Italian politician, MP (1968-1994), heart attack.
Vojtech Varadín, 69, Slovak footballer (Spartak Trnava, Slovan Bratislava, Czechoslovakia national team).
Germán Villegas, 74, Colombian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cali (1990-1992), Governor of Valle del Cauca (1995-1997, 2001-2003) and Senator (2006-2014), stroke.
8/24
Andre Blay, 81, American film producer (Prince of Darkness, They Live, Village of the Damned).
Vijay Chavan, 63, Indian actor (Mumbaicha Dabewala), lung disease.
Lawrence J. DeNardis, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981-1983), President of the University of New Haven (1991-2004).
DJ Ready Red, 53, American hip hop producer (Geto Boys) and DJ, heart attack.
Claudiomiro Estrais Ferreira, 68, Brazilian footballer (Internacional, Botafogo, national team).
Sherkhan Farnood, 57, Afghan banker (Kabul Bank) and poker player, heart attack.
Tom Frost, 81, American mountaineer and photographer, cancer.
Uri Katzenstein, 67, Israeli sculptor and musician, stroke.
Robin Leach, 76, British writer and television host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous), complications from a stroke.
Jeff Lowe, 67, American mountaineer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Princeton Lyman, 82, American diplomat, Ambassador to Nigeria (1986-1989) and South Africa (1992-1995), lung cancer.
James Mallinson, 74-75, English record producer.
McSkillet, 18, American YouTuber, suicide by traffic collision.
Emiddio Novi, 72, Italian journalist and politician, MP (1994-2008), traffic collision.
Javier Otxoa, 43, Spanish cyclist, Paralympic champion (2004, 2008).
Aleksei Paramonov, 93, Soviet-born Russian football player (Spartak Moscow, national team) and manager (Étoile Sahel), Olympic champion (1956).
Antonio Pennarella, 58, Italian actor (The Butterfly's Dream, On My Skin, Noi credevamo).
Valentina Rastvorova, 85, Soviet-born Russian fencer, Olympic champion (1960) and silver medalist (1960, 1964), eight-time world champion.
Hetin Reyes, 80, Puerto Rican sports executive, President of the Basketball Federation (1988-2008), heart attack.
Gordon Riddick, 74, English footballer (Luton Town, Gillingham, Brentford F.C.).
Trudy Stevenson, 73, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Senegal (since 2009).
Ivan Straus, 90, Bosnian architect (Belgrade Museum of Aviation).
Sir Adrian Swire, 86, British businessman (Swire)
Ciril Zlobec, 93, Slovene poet, writer and politician.