Gene Patton
Submitted by: Bob SacamanoA Gong Show regular in the 1970’s.
A Gong Show regular in the 1970’s.
Teen idol. Played Joe Hardy in the Hardy Boys TV series, had a hit song Da Doo Ron Ron in 1977.
David Cassidy was a teen idol, played Keith Partridge which attained success as both a television sitcom and as a pop music group. Hits such as I Think I Love You hit #1 for three weeks in 1970.
He was Ponch on the TV series CHIPS which ran for 6 seasons in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Ruth Buzzi starred in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, played Marlo Thomas’s best friend in That Girl, played 7 years on Sesame Street, made some Disney movies like Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Freaky Friday, and North Avenue Irregulars, received 5 career Emmy nom’s, and won the Golden Globe award for best performer in a comedy […]
Acting, did the lead in To Find A Man while she was still in high school, co-starred in Buster & Billie with Jan Michael Vincent . Her career culminated as Nancy Drew in the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV Series in 1977-1978.
Played the poolside girl Linda Barrett in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, 1982.
After starring in Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978, she starred in the 1985 chick-flick Key Exchange and then later played the same role in the Broadway remake of it. Also starred in Cuba, The Dead Zone and The Stuff
Although he had a lot of comedy work under his belt before then (i.e. Laugh-In, Sonny And Cher), Murray Langston’s career hit a critical mass when he appeared on the Gong Show. He needed the money and didn’t want his friends to know, so he put a bag over his head, became “The Unknown Comic” […]
He had a very popular comedy/variety series in the 70’s, one on which the largest stars of the day, Dean Martin, John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, et al. were eager to guest on and one of the first shows to host blockbuster musical acts of the time such as Issac Hayes, James […]