The Ropers: Friends and Neighbors
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, November 25 on WTIC Antenna TV (61.2)
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Friends and Neighbors
Season 1, Episode 2
Brookes didn't anticipate Roper showing up in a bathrobe when he asked a Congressman and his wife to dinner. Helen: Audra Lindley. Anne: Patricia McCormack. David: Evan Cohen.
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1979
English
HD Level Unknown
Comedy
Sitcom
Spin-off
Cast & Crew
Audra Lindley
(Actor)
.. Helen Roper
Patty McCormack
(Actor)
.. Anne Brookes
Evan Cohen
(Actor)
.. David Brookes
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Did You Know..
Audra Lindley
(Actor)
.. Helen Roper
Born:
September 24, 1918
Died: October 16, 1997
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: October 16, 1997
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Trivia:
Audra Lindley made her film bow with a blink-and-you-miss-her bit in 1942's The Male Animal. An established Broadway actress by the 1950s, Lindley has appeared in such plays as Take Her She's Mine, Spofford and A Case of Libel. Her TV work has included regular stints on such soap operas as Search for Tomorrow, From These Roots and The Edge of Night; she spent several years as Liz Mathews on NBC's Another World. Equally busy in TV's nighttime hours, Lindley was a regular on the 1970s sitcoms Bridget Loves Bernie, Fay and Doc. Her most famous prime-time TV assignment was as long-suffering Helen Roper in Three's Company (1977-79) and its 1979 spin-off The Ropers. She also appeared as Elizabeth Montgomery's mother in a brace of "Edna Buchanan" TV movies, and as Phoebe's grandmother on a 1994 episode of Friends. She made her final film appearance in Peter Hyams's action thriller Sudden Death (1995). Lindley was for many years the wife of actor James Whitmore. She died at age 79 from complications of leukemia on Oct 16, 1997.
Patty McCormack
(Actor)
.. Anne Brookes
Born:
August 21, 1945
Trivia:
Because the two actresses tended to play the same type of overwrought roles in the mid-1950s, juvenile stars Patty McCormick and Patty Duke were sometimes mistaken for one another during this period. But once seen in her starmaking role as the homicidal preteen Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed (in which she starred on Broadway in 1954 and in the film version in 1956), Patty McCormick can never be confused with anyone else. A pro from the age of four, McCormick was in films from 1951 and TV from 1953. After Bad Seed, she was second-billed as a bratty child star in the theatrical-film Kathy O' (1957) and was headlined in her own 1958 sitcom, Peck's Bad Girl. The uniqueness that characterized McCormick's appearances as a child evaporated when she reached maturity; though she was more than competent playing disturbed teenagers in films like The Miniskirt Mob (1967) and The Young Runaways (1968), these were parts that could have been played equally well by a dozen other young actresses. She acted sporadically into the 1970s and 1980s, her longest assignment being the role of Jeffrey Tambor's upwardly mobile wife on the TV sitcom The Ropers. In 1995, Patty McCormick starred in the direct-to-video Mommy, playing a grown-up edition of the murderous Rhoda from The Bad Seed.
Evan Cohen
(Actor)
.. David Brookes
