MSN is reporting that http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=847737]Russell Johnson passed away yesterday, at age 89.
I'd recently re-watched This Island Earth - well, the MST3K version - although I suspect most folks will remember him from Gilligan's Island. Odd how he played characters with quiet dignity in both stories...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I'd recently re-watched This Island Earth - well, the MST3K version - although I suspect most folks will remember him from Gilligan's Island. Odd how he played characters with quiet dignity in both stories...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012