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Louis Nye
Actor
Born May 1, 1913 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Louis Nye was one of those delightfully pretentious comic actors you loved to hate, his flip manner and faux rich boy arrogance possessing his characters no matter what social stature they were. Nye (first name pronounced Louie) was a master at sketch comedy, foreign accents and the quicksilver ad lib. Born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Hartford, Connecticut, he initially joined a troupe called the Hartford Players. Eventually he moved to New York and found work on radio and in musical revues. At his peak, he divided himself equally on stage, clubs, radio, films, comedy albums and TV. He broke into the big time when he earned a regular gig on The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956) during the mid-1950s. His best-known character, hands down, was the droll, effete country-club braggart Gordon Hathaway, he of the forlorn-looking eyebrows whose off-the-cuff catchphrase salutation to Allen, "Hi, ho, Steverino!", was famous throughout the United States. On occasion, he was allowed some stretch in the acting department, playing it rougher and tougher, but, for the most part, his gents were more mincing than menacing. The films in which he appeared never made full use of his comic potential. Most of his parts were little more than flashy, extended cameos, some better than others. Often the unctuous con man, leering neighbor or opportunistic Madison Avenue executive, his movie credits include The Facts of Life (1960), The Wheeler Dealers (1963), Good Neighbor Sam (1964), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978), and Cannonball Run II (1984). As for television, he was always the second-banana, never the head cheese. Over the years, Nye bolstered most of Hollywood's star comedians including Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Bill Cosby, and Jonathan Winters. He played spoiled rich boy "Sonny Drysdale", an extension of his Hathaway character, on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), and, most recently, Jeff Garlin's dad on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), both characters pure Nye. He worked in night clubs and TV until just a few years before his death at age 92 on October 9, 2005 of lung cancer. He was survived by his wife, Anita Leonard, a pianist/songwriter who penned the song "A Sunday Kind of Love", and their son, Peter, an artist.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 1
Cannonball Run 2
The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson - Show Date: 09/26/74
The Jack Benny Show
Naked City Season 1
St. Elsewhere Season 1
The Munsters Season 1
The Real Ghostbusters - Volume 1
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Danny Thomas Show
Starsky and Hutch Season 1
Good Neighbor Sam
NEEDLES & PINS Season 1
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2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 1
1986
The Real Ghostbusters - Volume 1
1984
Cannonball Run 2
The Cosby Show
1983
Inspector Gadget Season 2
Great Bear Scare
1982
St. Elsewhere Season 1
1981
Full Moon High
1978
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1977
The Love Boat - Who Killed Maxwell Thorn
Charge of the Model T's
1976
Won Ton Ton the Dog that Saved Hollywood
1975
Starsky and Hutch Season 1
1973
NEEDLES & PINS Season 1
1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1964
Good Neighbor Sam
The Munsters Season 1
1963
The Wheeler Dealers
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson - Show Date: 09/26/74
1961
Last Time I Saw Archie, The
1960
The Facts Of Life
1958
Naked City Season 1
1953
The Danny Thomas Show
1950
The Jack Benny Show
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