EARLY FAMOUS TV ACTORS/ACTRESSES BRITTANI HATTON & MAEVE THORNTON

INTRODUCTION OVER THE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY WONDERFUL ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. OUR PRESENTATION WILL COVER JUST A FEW OF THE GREAT ONES IN EARLY TELEVISION.

LUCILLE BALL ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED COMEDIANS, LUCILLE BALL IS PARTICULARLY KNOWN FOR HER ICONIC TELEVISION SHOW I LOVE LUCY. SHE WAS BORN ON AUGUST 6, 1911 & DIED ON APRIL 26, BEFORE MRS. BALL WAS AN ACTRESS SHE WAS A MODEL. SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST PREGNANT WOMAN ON TELEVISION.

BETTY WHITE BETTY WHITE IS A COMEDIC ACTRESS WHO HAS BEEN IN SHOW BUSINESS, FROM TV TO FILM, SINCE THE 1950S, MOST NOTABLY ON THE GOLDEN GIRLS. MRS. WHITE WAS BORN ON JANUARY 17, MRS. WHITE HAS WON 7 EMMYS AS WELL AS A GRAMMY IN HER ACTING CAREER. BEFORE TV SHE WAS ON THE RADIO.

ISABEL SANFORD ISABEL SANFORD WAS AN AMERICAN ACTRESS, BEST KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS LOUISE "WEEZY" JEFFERSON ON THE HIT TELEVISION SITCOMS ALL IN THE FAMILY AND THE JEFFERSONS. MRS. SANFORD WAS BORN ON AUGUST 29, 1917 AND DIED ON JULY 9, IN 1965 SHE STARED ON BROADWAY AS SISTER MOORE IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE AMEN CORNER BY JAMES BALDWIN.

ADAM WEST ACTOR ADAM WEST PLAYED THE CRIME-FIGHTING SUPERHERO BATMAN ON THE 1966 TELEVISION SERIES. THE PHENOMENAL POPULARITY OF THE SERIES MADE WEST A HOUSEHOLD NAME. ADAM WEST WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 19, BEFORE HIS TV CAREER HE WORKED AS A RADIO DISK JOKEY.

JOHN ASTIN JOHN ASTIN WAS MOST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE AS GOMEZ ADDAMS IN THE ADDAMS FAMILY IN MR. ASTIN WAS BORN ON MARCH 30, BEFORE TELEVISION HE WORKED IN THEATRE, MAKING HIS FIRST BROADWAY APPEARANCE AS AN UNDERSTUDY IN MAJOR BARBARA BY GORGE BENARD SHAW. HE ALSO MADE A LOT OF TV APPREANCES IN SHOW SUCH AS BATMAN (AS THE RIDDLER), THE NEW ADDAMS FAMILY (AS GRAMPA ADDAMS) AND MANY MORE.

ROY ROGERS HE STARRED IN OVER 100 WESTERN FILMS BEFORE STARRING IN “THE ROY ROJERS SHOW” THAT AIRED FROM CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SHOW THAT FEATURED VISUAL EFFECTS TO DRAW IN YOUNGER AUDIENCES KNOWN AS “KING OF THE COWBOYS”

BRUCE LEE FIRST TELEVISION ROLE WAS IN “THE GREEN HORNET” AS KATO, THE TRUSTY SIDEKICK ( ) HIS HIGH MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS GOT HIM ROLES IN MANY MOVIES PRIOR TO HIS TV CAREER HE CONTINUED TO STAR AS KATO IN THREE EPISODES OF BATMAN IN 1967

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