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On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

One of those ubiquitous TV guys who made the occassional foray into movies.

Smithington · Joined: 14 Dec 2011

Man, they're dropping like flies. It seems every week there's someone famous from the 70's or 80's passing on. I guess it's that demographic.

About Eight is Enough, if my memory doesn't fail me the older daughter used to be married to John Travolta but she died in an accident or a disease many years ago. I'll have to double-check that.

edit: Travolta dated the 'mother' in the first four episodes before she died of cancer in 1977. Travolta was eighteen years her junior.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

catman · Joined: 18 Jul 2004

I remember his cameos in those Weird Al Yankovik videos.

radcon · Joined: 23 May 2011

Travolta dated women just to keep up appearances. He's gay.

Smithington · Joined: 14 Dec 2011

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Morgan Freeman is another one of those 70s guys who more or less vanished in the 80s, and then made a huge comeback in the 90s. He was pretty prominent, if not by name, on the kids show Electric Company, which ended in 1977. Between that time and Lean On Me, his resume looks like this...