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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

I don't know how many remember the television version of The Odd Couple ,but Tony Randall who played Felix Unger died last night. [Frown]

[ May 18, 2004, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: Derrell ]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

[Frown]

He was a great guy. I enjoyed him in every single movie in which I've seen him! Especially all the Rock Hudson/Doris Day ones... and now he made a cameo in Down With Love.

There aren't really many of them left. [Frown]

Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :

I used to watch that show, he was really funny. It's sad that he died, maybe this is just morbid curiosity, but how did he die?

Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

Complications from pneumonia. He was 84

edited for spelling

[ May 18, 2004, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: Derrell ]

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Ohhh... That's so sad. [Frown]

Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :

I don't remember the name just now but my favorite was a show where he played a judge. Funny stuff.

Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :

shitty. that guy was great.

Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :

[Frown]

Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

The sad part is that he leaves behind two small children, one seven years old and the other five.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Exactly, Derrell.

I heard this morning. I've been a bit sad all day. Poor kids. [Frown]

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

That is horrible. [Frown]

But - 84 with a 7 year old and a 5 year old? Man, that guy started late.

I guess if you have a child at age 79 you have accepted the fact that you won't be alive for most of their life... probably not even for their teenage years.

Doesn't make it better for the child though.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Not his first kids, I don't think. But then, he did marry a woman many years his junior. [Dont Know]

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

Yeah, I guessed as much.

I don't know, I think it's kind of irresponsible/selfish having children at that age.

It means it's inevitable that they won't grow up with their father. [Frown]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I don't entirely disagree, although until about a year ago, Randall was (reportedly) in far better health than many men decades his junior.

It's not like having kids in your twenties or thirties is any guarantee that you will be around.

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Also, I believe he had a first wife who died of an illness.

Sad to hear that. I first knew him from the Late Show with David Letterman, he'd come on all the time.

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

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It's not like having kids in your twenties or thirties is any guarantee that you will be around.

No, I know. But the probabilities are far, far better.

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As an aside.. in succession law, when probabting a will, it is sometimes necessary to look at whether parties may have children in the future. For the purpose of this, a woman is considered capable of bearing children up till 55, while a man is considered capable until his death. I know the latter is biologically true, it just always struck me as odd in cases where the party in question was a 95 year old man with great-great-grandchildren...