Thursday, April 15, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Don Wilson 1900 - 1982

 

April 15, 2021
Sketch of the Day:
Don Wilson 1900 - 1982
Wilson was an American announcer and actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of The Jack Benny Program.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Mary Livingstone

 

Sketch of the Day:  Mary Livingstone


April 14, 2021
Sketch of the Day:
Mary Livingstone 1905-1983
(The Jack Benny Radio Show)
Mary Livingstone was an American radio comedian and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny.
Enlisted casually to perform on her husband's program, she proved a talented comedian. But she also proved one of the rare performers to experience severe stage fright years after her career was established, so much so that she retired from show business completely, after two decades in the public eye, almost three decades before her death and at the height of her husband and partner's fame.

Monday, April 12, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Rochester of the Jack Benny show

 

#Rochester #EdmundAnderson 1905 – 1977 was an #American #comedian and #actor. To a generation of #earlyradio and #television #comedy he was known as "Rochester" #Pencil #Sketch #SketchOfTheDay: #GregJoens #OldHollywood #JackBenny

Friday, April 9, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Dennis Quaid


Dennis Quaid - pencil
Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, some of his notable credits include Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), Traffic (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Vantage Point (2008), Footloose (2011), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Intruder (2019). For his role in Far from Heaven (2002), he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor among other accolades. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Source: Wikipedia

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Benicio del Toro

 

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967 ) is a Puerto Rican  actor and producer.  He has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy AwardBAFTA AwardGolden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000). Del Toro's performance as ex-con turned religious fanatic in despair, Jack Jordan, in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003) earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a second Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination and a BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Sketch of the Day: Josh Brolin - Pencil


 

Josh Brolin - Pencil

Joshua James Brolin is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award.

Brolin has appeared in films such as The Goonies (1985), Mimic (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Grindhouse (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), American Gangster (2007), W. (2008), Milk (2008), True Grit (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Deadpool 2 (2018). He played Marvel Comics supervillain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Source: Wikipedia

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Sketch of the Day: James Garner

 


James Garner 

(born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor and producer. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in the 1950s Western series Maverick and as Jim Rockford in the 1970s private detective show, The Rockford Files.

He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews, Grand Prix (1966), Marlowe (1969), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), The Castaway Cowboy (1974), and with Toshiro Mifune, Blake Edwards's Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews, and Murphy's Romance (1985) with Sally Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Garner's career and popularity continued through another decade in movies like Space Cowboys (2000) with Clint Eastwood, and The Notebook (2004) with Gena Rowlands. and his TV sitcom role as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules (2003-2005).