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Bill Dana

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William Szathmary (October 5, 1924 June 15, 2017), known professionally by his stage name Bill Dana, was an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. [1]

76 relations: Alan Shepard, Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, All in the Family, Anthony Muñoz, Associated Press, Batman (TV series), Betty White, Bob Newhart, Bronze Star Medal, CBS, Danny Thomas, Dick Gregory, Dick Van Dyke, Don Adams, Don Knotts, Emerson College, Gene Sheldon, Gene Wood, Get Smart, Hacienda (resort), Howard Post, Howie Mandel, I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?, IMDb, Irving Szathmary, Joey Forman, Jonathan Harris, Jonathan Winters, José Jiménez (character), Kliph Nesteroff, Las Vegas, M2 mortar, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maura McGiveney, Nashville, Tennessee, National Football League, NBC, Norman Lear, Overmyer Network, Paramount Pictures, Paul Rodriguez (actor), Phyllis Diller, Quincy, Massachusetts, Sammy Davis Jr., Scott Glenn, Sitcom, Sophia Petrillo, St. Elsewhere, Television film, The Bill Dana Show, ..., The Busy Body, The Danny Thomas Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Golden Girls, The Harrad Experiment, The Imogene Coca Show, The Las Vegas Show, The Martha Raye Show, The New York Times, The Nude Bomb, The Practice (1976 TV series), The Right Stuff (film), The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Spike Jones Show (series), The Steve Allen Show, The Telegraph (Nashua), The Walt Disney Company, The Washington Post, Tom Poston, Too Close for Comfort, United Press International, United States Army, Yiddish, Zorro (1957 TV series), Zorro and Son, 66th Infantry Division (United States). Expand index (26 more) »

Alan Shepard

Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman.

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Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

The New Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?) is a forty-eight-and-a-half-minute animated TV-movie, written by Bill Dana (who also appears in its cast), produced by Hanna-Barbera, and broadcast on the ABC network on July 04, 1966, in an hour slot (including commercials).

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All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979.

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Anthony Muñoz

Michael Anthony Muñoz (born August 19, 1958), is a former American football offensive tackle who played 13 seasons for the National Football League's Cincinnati Bengals.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Batman (TV series)

Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name.

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Betty White

Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress and comedian, with the longest television career of a female entertainer.

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Bob Newhart

George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery.

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Bronze Star Medal

The Bronze Star Medal, unofficially the Bronze Star, is a United States decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian, singer, actor, and producer whose career spanned five decades.

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Dick Gregory

Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist,, NPR, July 12, 2005.

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Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

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Don Adams

Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor, comedian and director.

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Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian, best known as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, a 1960s sitcom for which he earned five Emmy Awards.

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Emerson College

Emerson College is a private college in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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Gene Sheldon

Gene Sheldon (born Eugene Hume, February 1, 1908 – May 1, 1982) was an American film and television actor and musician.

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Gene Wood

Eugene Edward Wood (October 20, 1925 – May 21, 2004) was an American television personality, known primarily for his work as an announcer on various game shows.

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Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time.

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Hacienda (resort)

The Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, that operated from 1956 to 1996.

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Howard Post

Howard "Howie" Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) Alternate source: "'Dropouts' cartoonist Howard Post dies in NJ at 83", Associated Press via The Washington Post, May 24, 2010 was an American animator, cartoonist, and comic strip and comic book writer-artist.

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Howie Mandel

Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and television host.

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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (original USA theatrical name Kill My Wife, Please) is a 1975 black comedy movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern, and starring Bob Dishy and Joanna Barnes.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Irving Szathmary

Irving Szathmary, born Isadore Szathmary (October 30, 1907 – October 29, 1983) in Quincy, Massachusetts and died in Valletta, Malta on the eve of his 76th birthday, was a Hungarian-American musical composer and arranger most known for scoring the Get Smart television series.

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Joey Forman

Joey Forman (November 18, 1929 – December 9, 1982) was an American comedian and comic actor.

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Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor "whose career included more than 500 television and movie appearances, as well as voice overs." Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain Dr.

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Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist.

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José Jiménez (character)

José Jiménez was a fictional character created and performed by comedian Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show in 1959 and who became increasingly popular during the 1960s.

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Kliph Nesteroff

Kliph Nesteroff is a best-selling author regarded for his vast knowledge of show business.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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M2 mortar

The M2 Mortar is a 60 millimeter smoothbore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used by U.S. forces in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War for light infantry support.

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008) was an Indian guru, known for developing the Transcendental Meditation technique and for being the leader and guru of a worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.

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Maura McGiveney

Maura McGiveney (19391990) was an English-American film and television actress during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude.

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Overmyer Network

The Overmyer Network/United Network was a television network.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paul Rodriguez (actor)

Paul Rodriguez, Sr. (born January 19, 1955) is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor and comedian.

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Scott Glenn

Theodore Scott Glenn, better known as Scott Glenn, is an American actor.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Sophia Petrillo

Sophia Petrillo is a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls, and its spin-offs The Golden Palace and Empty Nest and one episode each of the series, Blossom and Nurses.

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St. Elsewhere

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Bill Dana Show

The Bill Dana Show was an American comedy series starring Bill Dana and Jonathan Harris.

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The Busy Body

The Busy Body is a 1967 comedy film starring Sid Caesar as a member of a crime ring and Robert Ryan as his boss.

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The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show (called Make Room for Daddy for its first three seasons) is an American sitcom that ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.

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The Harrad Experiment

The Harrad Experiment (1973) is a film about a fictional school called Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other.

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The Imogene Coca Show

The Imogene Coca Show is a half-hour NBC television series starring Imogene Coca in both situation comedy and variety show formats.

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The Las Vegas Show

The Las Vegas Show is an American late night television program broadcast in May 1967 on the short-lived United Network.

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The Martha Raye Show

The Martha Raye Show was an hour-long comedy/variety show which aired live on NBC from January 23, 1954, to May 29, 1956.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Nude Bomb

The Nude Bomb (also known as The Return of Maxwell Smart) is a 1980 comedy film based on the television series Get Smart.

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The Practice (1976 TV series)

The Practice is an American sitcom starring Danny Thomas which centers on a father and son who are both doctors in New York City.

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The Right Stuff (film)

The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film.

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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.

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The Spike Jones Show (series)

The Spike Jones Show is the name of several separate American comedy and variety series that aired on NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Steve Allen Show

The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, from the Museum of Broadcast Communications and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964.

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The Telegraph (Nashua)

The Telegraph, for most of its existence known as the Nashua Telegraph, is a daily newspaper in Nashua, New Hampshire.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tom Poston

Thomas Gordon Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor.

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Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, "Jewish",; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.

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Zorro (1957 TV series)

Zorro is an American action-adventure western drama series produced by Walt Disney Productions.

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Zorro and Son

Zorro and Son is an American television Western based on the character Zorro that aired on CBS.

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66th Infantry Division (United States)

The 66th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dana

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