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I’ll admit, I had to throw in “primetime” as a caveat to get the great Fritz Weaver in there, as suggested by my pal Kelvin, as Weaver actually had a brief period of being a listed cast member on the soap opera All My Children late in his life. Crowley passed away in 2017 at the age of 87. Her eight appearances as the female lead of episodes were a Maverick record.
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She was particularly good on Maverick playing a series of seductive femme fatales for the Maverick brothers (and cousin). It is likely that Crowley was paid MORE during this period than if she HAD been a regular actor on those shows, but at the same time, obviously the work was not as steady as a regular gig.
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Television would have Crowley do a number of prominent guest star spots on its various TV series, like Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip. The most interesting thing about Crowley is that while she was never a regular on any TV series, she would routinely have seasons where she was BASICALLY a regular on a show we could call “Warner Bros Television Anthology”… All sorts of adventures took place on the waterfront, it appeared. One of the amusing things about early television shows is that they all did so many episodes that even a recurring role, like Crowley had on the early TV series, Waterfront, saw her appearing SEVENTEEN TIMES over two seasons on the show, as the fiancee of the son of the lead character, a tugboat captain (the son was ALSO a tugboat captain). Duvall obviously did TV miniseries in his career, but not ongoing series and Hackman actually nearly took the role of Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch before his agent said he shouldn’t tie himself down to a series at that point in time. But obviously, no to the Tom Cruises of the world, or even the Gene Hackmans or Robert Duvalls of this world, both of whom did TV guest spots before they hit it big in movies. So no movie stars, even though most movie stars HAVE been regulars on TV series at some point in their lives, as well.
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You can always feel free to suggest ANOTHER example that fits the theme, if you’d like, but nothing is “missing” from this list.īased on a challenge I put to my Facebook friends last year, let’s look at five great actors who never had a regular role on a live action primetime TV series, meaning that their name was actually listed in the credits (and did enough guest work on television where it was clear that they’d take a regular series at some point if it were offered.
It’s just not one of the five examples that I chose. So no instance is “missing” if it is not listed. They are a list of five examples (occasionally I’ll be nice and toss in a sixth). Note that these lists are inherently not exhaustive. In Drawing Crazy Patterns, I spotlight at least five things from pop culture that fit under a specific theme (basically, stuff that happens frequently enough to be worth pointing it out). Today, we spotlight five great actors who were never regulars on TV series.