Ronny Cox (then best known for Deliverance) joined for the last season.Īs for the up-and-comers, the show was like a garden of future stars: Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon (who had lots of credits by this time but no one knew his name), Ed Begley Jr (ditto), David Morse, and Howie Mandel (who made good as a stand-up comic simultaneously with the advent of the show). Also known when he joined the cast was Stephen Furst, who’d played Flounder in Animal House. Bailey (also of M*A*S*Hand The Closer) left the show after the first season. The known quantities were Flanders, as well as old-timer Norman Lloyd (then around 70, and remarkably still alive at this writing!), the much beloved stage and screen star William Daniels, and David Birney (who’d starred in the sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie with his wife Meredith Baxter a decade earlier). The casting of that ensemble was a masterful combination of recognizable veterans and newcomers. I went back and binge watched the first few seasons a couple of months back and the experience made me very happy. His job was to keep his head while everyone else lost theirs. Elegius Hospital in Boston, he was kind of a bemused but beleaguered straight man to a huge number of crazies, a role not unlike the one Andy Griffith had played on his eponymous sit com, or the one Hal Linden had played on Barney Miller (or for that matter, the one played by Daniel J. But among that ensemble, Flanders was first among equals. Elsewhere featured a large ensemble cast. Much like Hill Street Blues, on which it seemed to be partially modeled, St. In 1982 came the show and the role Flanders became best known for, that of Dr. William Peter Blatty was also a major Ed Flanders fan, casting him in The Ninth Configuration (1980) and The Exorcist III (1990).
He was in Lincoln (1975), Eleanor and Franklin (1976), Backstairs at the White House (1979 - he played Coolidge), Blind Ambition (1979, about Richard Nixon) and The Final Days (1989, also about Nixon.) For a while Flanders was in an absurd number of Presidential films, although not always in the role of a President. My parents were particular fans of these turns these performances were admired in our house. Truman: Plain Speaking (1976) and MacArthur (1977). He next made a splash playing Harry Truman in Truman at Potsdam (1976), Harry S.
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When a TV movie was made of the play in 1975, he earned an Emmy for his performance in that. That year he starred on Broadway in Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, a role which garnered him a Tony. A 1972 episode of M*A*S*H might be the first place I ever saw him. Most of his work throughout his career was to be on television he appeared on dozens of shows on the small screen. That year he was in the Broadway premiere of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and on an episode of the TV western Cimarron Strip. We’ll talk about his eventual fate in a bit meantime, we celebrate him, his career, and his hit TV show.Īn army vet from Minneapolis, Flanders began to make good in 1967, the year of his first Broadway and television credits. The late Ed Flanders was born on this day in 1934.
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