Lamont
07-12-2006, 10:44 PM
Veteran actor Barnard Hughes dies
Veteran actor Barnard Hughes, star of stage, big screen and small screen, has died after a brief illness at age 91.
According to the Associated Press, Hughes passed away on Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Hughes appeared in dozens of Broadway productions and also movies like Midnight Cowboy, Doc Hollywood, Sister Act 2 and The Lost Boys (as the seemingly clueless grandfather-turned-last-minute-rescuer).
He is perhaps best known to TV-viewing veterans as the star of such series as Doc, Mister Merlin and Blossom.
Hughes won an Emmy for a guest stint on Lou Grant and a Tony for his role in Hugh Leonard's Da in 1978 (a role he also played in the 1988 film version opposite Martin Sheen).
Hughes was born in 1915 in New York and worked as a salesman, among other jobs, before auditioning for a show after a friend dared him to.
After military service in WW2, he met his wife Helen Stenborg, while performing in a veteran's hospital show.
Besides Helen, Hughes is survived by two children and a grandson.
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i also loved him in the 80s sitcoms THE CAVANAUGHS and MR MERLIN
later he was in the movie HARD RAIN with betty white and morgan freeman
great actor
great comic timing
sad to see him go
Veteran actor Barnard Hughes, star of stage, big screen and small screen, has died after a brief illness at age 91.
According to the Associated Press, Hughes passed away on Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Hughes appeared in dozens of Broadway productions and also movies like Midnight Cowboy, Doc Hollywood, Sister Act 2 and The Lost Boys (as the seemingly clueless grandfather-turned-last-minute-rescuer).
He is perhaps best known to TV-viewing veterans as the star of such series as Doc, Mister Merlin and Blossom.
Hughes won an Emmy for a guest stint on Lou Grant and a Tony for his role in Hugh Leonard's Da in 1978 (a role he also played in the 1988 film version opposite Martin Sheen).
Hughes was born in 1915 in New York and worked as a salesman, among other jobs, before auditioning for a show after a friend dared him to.
After military service in WW2, he met his wife Helen Stenborg, while performing in a veteran's hospital show.
Besides Helen, Hughes is survived by two children and a grandson.
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i also loved him in the 80s sitcoms THE CAVANAUGHS and MR MERLIN
later he was in the movie HARD RAIN with betty white and morgan freeman
great actor
great comic timing
sad to see him go