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WAC
Season 1, Episode 3
Bilko and a Wac vie for their own personal jeep. Joan: Elisabeth Frazer. Hall: Paul Ford. Henshaw: Allan Melvin.
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1955
English
Comedy
Sitcom
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Did You Know..
Paul Ford
(Actor)
.. Col. John Hall
Born:
November 02, 1901
Died: April 14, 1976
Died: April 14, 1976
Trivia:
After having drifted from job to job--with a wife and five children in tow--Baltimore native Paul Ford decided in his late 30s to give acting a try. He worked with the Depression-era W.P.A. agency in a puppet show project and also wrote shows for the Federal Theatre; his biggest break came when he and his co-workers staged a puppet production for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Radio, stage and film work followed, but Ford wouldn't truly hit the big time until 1955, when he was engaged to play the apoplectic Colonel Hall on Phil Silvers' situation comedy You'll Never Get Rich. For four seasons, TV fans were regaled by the efforts of conniving Sgt. Bilko (Silvers) and long-suffering Col. Hall to outsmart one another. During this period, Ford worked steadily in the theatre, recreating his popular stage role as Colonel Purdy in Teahouse for the August Moon when the play was committed to film in 1955. After Phil Silvers' series was cancelled, Ford continued his stage and screen career, scoring a major success in 1965 in the play Never Too Late, in which he played a fiftyish husband who discovered that his middle-aged wife was pregnant. Never Too Late was filmed in 1967, with Ford once again in the starring role; five years and many lucrative acting assignments later, Paul Ford retired.
Allan Melvin
(Actor)
.. Cpl. Henshaw
Born:
January 17, 2008
Died: January 17, 2008
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died: January 17, 2008
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Trivia:
American comic character actor Allan Melvin worked on stage, radio, screen, and television, where he is best remembered for playing Sam the Butcher, the love interest of beloved housekeeper Alice on The Brady Bunch. He also appeared as Sergeant Bilko's right-hand man The Phil Silvers Show, and as Archie Bunker's best friend on All in the Family). Melvin also worked in commercials and voiced many animated cartoons. He died of cancer in January 2008 at age 84.
