It is with much regret to inform you that Tony Randall, co-star of TV's 'The Odd Couple' and the star of many Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies, died in his sleep this morning. He was 84. He had appeared on many nighttime talk shows since Odd Couple and has been active in humanitarian activities. He is survived by his 34 year old wife and their two young children He will be missed. :\'(

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/obit_randall

I just read about this.  He was a wonderful actor....so sad.  :\'(

That is sad.  I feel bad for his wife and those two little children.

:(How sad.He was my grandmother's age..

I just read it on my homepage. so sad  :\'( Now what's gonna become of Jack Klugman? :(



Howard

I just read about this.  He was a wonderful actor....so sad.  :\'(



Does anyone remember Love Sidney? ??? Then here you go.... ;)

110-minute US TV movie, Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (screened in the USA on 1 February 1980 and in the UK by C4 on 23 August 1983). In this, Tony Randall - Felix Unger in The Odd Couple - played a lonesome 40-year-old homosexual commercial artist who meets a vivacious young actress, Laurie Morgan (played by Lorna Patterson), and ends up sharing his eight-room New York apartment with her, only to become shocked when she is impregnated by a man she does not love, and follows her term through to the delivery of a baby girl, Patti. Five years later, when Laurie wants out, to go to LA and marry, Sidney fights her in court for custody of the child he has helped to raise, the judgement giving him summer access to the young girl (played by Kaleena Kiff).


This was the starting-off point for the weekly sitcom. Laurie (now played by Swoosie Kurtz - actually her real name) has left her husband and returned to New York to share, with Patti, Sidney's apartment. However, and this is the crux of this sitcom's problem, Sidney is no longer gay - indeed, his sexuality is no longer referred to any which way. NBC executives, while content (just about, one suspects) to feature a gay lead character in a single TV movie bowed to the great moral majority and were not so keen to portray one in a weekly primetime series. Without this gay-man/heterosexual-woman axis the essence of the series was gone. Sure, the prim Sidney still mothered his two females, Laurie continued the cutting remarks and Patti was the kind of wisecracking pig-tailed brat usually seen in US sitcoms, but that was all.


Howard

It is with much regret to inform you that Tony Randall, co-star of TV's 'The Odd Couple' and the star of many Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies, died in his sleep this morning. He was 84. He had appeared on many nighttime talk shows since Odd Couple and has been active in humanitarian activities. He is survived by his 34 year old wife and their two young children He will be missed. :\'(

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/obit_randall


His wife is 34?!?! You have to be kidding me!!!!!  :o Tony is old enough to be her grandfather.

It saddens me to hear of this loss.  I thought he was absolutely hysterical on the "ODD COUPLE".  Wow...his wife was only 34...

I have just one word:   Viagra  (or)  Money

I have one word:  BOTH ;D


RIP Tony.


Good point!  I agree! :D

I'm afraid you don't have to worry about Jack for much longer. He'll be joining Randall in Heaven just as Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are now together. I'm surprised he's lasted this long.
I just read it on my homepage. so sad  :\'( Now what's gonna become of Jack Klugman? :(



Howard

RIP Tony Randall.

The Odd Couple was one of my guilty pleasures. 
As Howard mentioned, Love Sidney was based on a movie in which the lead character was gay.  I never saw either the film or the TV show, but the TR obits said the TV show character was only implicitly gay, like Mr. Belvedere.
However, people always said of The Odd Couple, "Ha! I know what that's REALLY about!"

I nver saw The Tony Randall Show either.  They hurried that one on after OC was cancelled in 1975.  Randall played "a stuffy Philadelphia judge," but the show only lasted a few seasons.

I remember when he married that woman fifty years his junior.  If you become a father at 77 and 78, you can't really expect to see the kids graduate from high school.  One can't really be prepared emotionally for the death of a spouse, but I'm sure the made generous provisions for those kids...but you never know.

I thought he was really funny in the Woody Allen film "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex(But Were Afraid To Ask)."

"Attention, attention! We're going for seconds! Attention, gonads...we're going for record!"

First off...I'm sad that he's gone....next....I'm happy that he was able to find himself a "Gold-digger" especially at his age...but I must say that I feel bad for those kids...."My dad was older than "Dirt" and my mom just wanted to get rich off him" ::)  IE: Anna-Nicole :P

The news quoted his wife as saying that she never met a nicer man in her life.  That seems kind of a strange thing to say about a spouse, don't you think?  I mean, you'd think she would be overcome with grief if she really loved the guy.  A nice man?  Sounds like the way you'd describe a next door neighbor.

Are you saying that there's no such thing as a nice man unless he lives next door? ::)

The news quoted his wife as saying that she never met a nicer man in her life.  That seems kind of a strange thing to say about a spouse, don't you think?  I mean, you'd think she would be overcome with grief if she really loved the guy.  A nice man?  Sounds like the way you'd describe a next door neighbor.

The news quoted his wife as saying that she never met a nicer man in her life.  That seems kind of a strange thing to say about a spouse, don't you think?  I mean, you'd think she would be overcome with grief if she really loved the guy.  A nice man?  Sounds like the way you'd describe a next door neighbor.
SURE he was "Nice"...and now She's Rich :-\\

Are you saying that there's no such thing as a nice man unless he lives next door? ::)




No that's not what I'm saying! What I meant is that you'd think she'd say something showing more emotion than that.  Even if she only wanted people to believe that she really loved the guy.

No that's not what I'm saying! What I meant is that you'd think she'd say something showing more emotion than that.  Even if she only wanted people to believe that she really loved the guy.
She was in it for the money....that's probably why she isn't to terribly upset :-\\

She was in it for the money....that's probably why she isn't to terribly upset :-\\


That's really sad, but I know you're right.  :-[