Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robin Miller Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dabney Coleman R.I.P. Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 23:48:49 -0400 Lines: 84 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WtS9D9WNnZOPvEaekUPRJw/GQH0MBjVb2K9AqZyaKKE18KYE/u Cancel-Lock: sha1:H4AIhu9HgIQnvl/L/dj9EaW8aa0= sha256:TL8Z+IV3ruwEVmfzMta4ybU8vbCPtqxPiLJYJzndIMU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3422 Nyssa wrote: > Robin Miller wrote: > >> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> Nyssa wrote: >>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>> >>>>> super70s wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thought he was worth a mention in here even if nobody >>>>>> else bothered to. >>>>> >>>>>> Maybe it's because he was described by the NYT as "the >>>>>> actor audiences loved to hate." >>>>> >>>>>> Must have been because of the "9 to 5" role, I >>>>>> certainly never hated him. >>>>> >>>>> 9 to 5 was a lousy movie. >>>>> >>>>> Coleman absolutely played unsympathetic characters but >>>>> he was a terrific actor. >>>>> >>>>> As this is a tv newsgroup, let's recall his two tv >>>>> series, Buffalo Bill and The Slap Maxwell story (which >>>>> gave the world Meaghan Gallager and her glorious long >>>>> hair). >>>> >>>> The first time Coleman pinged my radar was when he >>>> played the con-man father of a child evangelist on "Mary >>>> Hartman, Mary Hartman." >>> >>> Good point. This was mentioned in the obits and I forgot >>> to include it. >>> >>>> Another sleazy character, but as always, played to >>>> perfection. >>>> >>>> Nyssa, who wonders whatever happened to the child actor >>>> who played Jimmy Joe Jeeter on that show >>>> >>> >>> >> >> He stopped acting in 1986, when he was probably 18: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky_Marcus >> >> Maybe went to college? >> >> Someone with his birth name (Marcus Issoglio) appears to >> be a physical therapist living in Yreka, California, >> according to LinkedIn: >> >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-issoglio-091b3731/ >> >> >> --Robin >> >> > Thanks, Robin! Good detective work. ;) > > I was impressed with his acting chops on "Mary Hartman, > Mary Hartman," but never saw him in any other role. > > It sounds like he made the decision for himself and > landed on his feet with an in-demand career choice. > Good for him! > > Nyssa, who is always pleased to read about a good > outcome for talented child actors when they choose > a different career path as an adult (knowing that > the story doesn't always end well for many kids in > the business) > > And the person on LinkedIn went to high school from 1983-1986, which is exactly the right age for him. And they're both from/in California. I bet that's the same person. --Robin