Careers

TLDR: Jerry Orbach was born in the Bronx in 1935, originated Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway, played Harry McGraw on Murder, She Wrote, and … Read more

TLDR: Tom Bosley was born in Chicago on October 1, 1927, won a Tony Award for playing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on Broadway in 1960, and … Read more

TLDR:Murder, She Wrote ran on CBS from September 30, 1984, to May 19, 1996, for 12 seasons and 264 episodes. Angela Lansbury played Jessica Fletcher … Read more

TLDR: Angela Lansbury was born in London in 1925, fled the Blitz to America at fourteen, and built a career across eight decades in film, … Read more

TLDR: Lorne Greene was born Lyon Himan Green in Ottawa, Canada, on February 12, 1915. Before playing Ben Cartwright on Bonanza for 14 seasons, he … Read more

TLDR: Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on October 31, 1936, in Forest Hills, Queens. He played Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza from 1959 … Read more

TLDR: Bonanza premiered on NBC on September 12, 1959, reached number one in the Nielsen ratings in 1964, and ran for 14 seasons and 431 … Read more

TLDR: Keith Thibodeaux was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1950, was touring nationally as a professional drummer at age three, and was cast as Little … Read more

TLDR: William Frawley spent forty years in vaudeville and Hollywood before alcoholism nearly destroyed his career entirely. At 64, virtually unemployable, he signed a strict … Read more

TLDR: Lucie Arnaz was born weeks before I Love Lucy made her parents household names, grew up navigating the private turbulence behind that public perfection, … Read more

TLDR: Desi Arnaz arrived in Miami at seventeen with no money, no English, and no future plan after a revolution burned down everything his family … Read more

TLDR: Vivian Vance was a glamorous Broadway actress who suffered a nervous breakdown before landing the role of Ethel Mertz, spent years being deliberately made … Read more

TLDR: Desi Arnaz Jr. was born into one of the most orchestrated media events in television history, grew up inside a household where everything was … Read more

TLDR: Lucille Ball was far more than Lucy Ricardo. Her life included childhood instability, years of rejection, a turbulent marriage to Desi Arnaz, a dangerous … Read more

TLDR: Burt Reynolds rose from a small-town Florida kid to Hollywood’s No. 1 box-office star, with his early break as blacksmith Quint Asper on Gunsmoke … Read more