Ray Fulmer - Never Seen Again

[TMC]

Originally Posted by stevea

He would be one of the few actors alive from the show, if not the only. I think Lynn Borden died a few years ago.

In regard to a comment made a few posts back, there are many actors I've tried to search on Wikipedia, to no avail. Certainly not unique to Ray Fulmer.

Ray Fulmer finally has a Wikipedia article in his name. It was created in August 2021.

[i29u]

The only regulars or semi-regulars still alive are all from the last season- Fulmer, 90, Charles Bateman, 92, Julia Benjamin (she turns 66 next Tuesday) and Ann Jillian(n) (she turned 73 three weeks ago).

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by stevea

He would be one of the few actors alive from the show, if not the only. I think Lynn Borden died a few years ago.

In regard to a comment made a few posts back, there are many actors I've tried to search on Wikipedia, to no avail. Certainly not unique to Ray Fulmer.

Julia Benjamin, who played Steve & Barbara's daughter Suzie, is also still living but retired from acting. She was a guest on Stu Shostak's www.stusshow.com years ago, as was child actor Pat Cardi, who played Harold's friend, Jeff Williams, in Season 5. Charles Bateman, who played Jeff's dad, is also still living and 93 years old now, at least according to all online references that I've seen.

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by stevea

He would be one of the few actors alive from the show, if not the only. I think Lynn Borden died a few years ago.

In regard to a comment made a few posts back, there are many actors I've tried to search on Wikipedia, to no avail. Certainly not unique to Ray Fulmer.

Julia Benjamin, who played daughter Suzie, is still living and wrote a book about her experiences as a child actor & since then.

[TJ]

FETV wished him a happy birthday last year.

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They must have found the photo here.

https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/ce...lmer-2016.html

It definitely isn't him. I did a reverse image search.

https://www.hansenspear.com/obituari...?obId=27612828

[weldonballou]

Originally Posted by Duster76

He couldn't have done any worse than Dick Sargent. That said (and I think Fulmer was a good actor) I don't think he could have made up for the loss of York. From everything I've read and seen on this site Montgomery preferred Sargent's portrayal (it was the audience that was unhappy).

First of all let's get this clear:

1. Dick Sargent was the original choice to play Darrin in 1963 but couldn't because of contractual obligations to Universal (Bewitched was Screen Gems)
2. People have a tendency to only wanna identify with the first actor they see and any change made will never be accepted by most audiences because people don't like change.
3. Ray Fulmer and Dick Sargent weren't bug-eyed freaked-out men running around the house screaming and flailing the way Dick York did. They both stood their ground no matter how wrong they may or may not have been in their respective episode situations.
4. Elizabeth was tired of Dick York leering at her on set, she never liked him, he was costing the studio money, and made the entire staff have to prepare two entirely separate scripts by 1968 because they never knew if Dick York was gonna make it through the weeks of shooting or not.

[stevea]

Three websites (Wikipedia, IMDb, and Wikipedia's source to claim he died, Forever Missed) say he died in 2013, but this site provided by poster Zoneboy in an earlier post says he's in his 80s and living a secretive lifestyle.

There is no obituary online, so as far as I can tell, he's still alive. The Forever Missed site, whatever that is, has no source to prove his death.