RIP Charles Nelson Reilly

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Tony award winner, 70s game show staple, and brilliant director Charles Nelson Reilly passed away last Friday. He was 76.
The Advocate (http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid45486.asp)
E! (http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4b006742-ac0c-4be3-b34f-924a61b4069d&entry=index)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nelson_Reilly)
The Life of Reilly (http://www.charlesnelsonreilly.com/) (film)
his official MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/charlesnelsonreilly)

I had the good fortune of getting to not only see his live stage show Save It For the Stage: The Life of Reilly, but along with half a dozen other people (including Lorna Luft) got to talk with him after the show in his dressing room. He was warm, generous, and a genuine pleasure to see both on stage and off. I an truly saddened to hear of his passing.

[Capt Jack]

:(

always liked him

RIP Charlie

[Gn2Dlnd]

NOOOooooooo!

The Commodore and I are saddened, indeed.

From the E! obituary:

With apologies to Somers' giant glasses, and Rayburn's impossibly long microphone, Reilly cut the show's most distinctive figure, as he was often seen puffing a pipe, wearing a captain's hat and donning glasses even larger than Somers'.
...

"When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away,'" Reilly once said, per a Hollywood Stock Exchange review of Life of Reilly. "Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me."

[€uroMeinke]

Ah, the one celebrity who actually yelled at me (and Boss Radio) - still a fun day in Hollywood thanks to him...

RIP

[CoasterMatt]

I thought for sure he was much older than that...

But he really was an incredible wit, and the world is less funny without him.

The Play's The Thing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QXDvm0lRnds) - Rest In Peace.

[Strangler Lewis]

I always enjoyed him. A lot of bowed hats in Lidsville tonight.

[Alex]

This has been happening to me a lot lately but this time I truly, thoroughly thought he was already dead. For some reason I have a pretty clear memory of him dying shortly after his episode of The X-Files.

Guess not.

At my last office job we used to play pool during lunch and watch Game Show Network, for about a year this generally meant an episode of Match Game, and he was always fun to watch.

[Boss Radio]

He yelled at us for ditching the play he directed. We went in search of fun on Hollywood Blvd, but instead of buying drugs or cheap hookers, we bought books at the Pickwick and toys at the Hollywood Toy and Magic shop.

The play was The Belle of Amherst, btw. A one woman show about the rather uneventful life of Emily Dickinson.

It was truly terrifying to be berated by Sid and Marty Krofft's evil magician of Lidsville, Hoodoo.

And yes, he really talked that that.

[RStar]

It was truly terrifying to be berated by Sid and Marty Krofft's evil magician
Sid and Marty must have used drugs when writing. I mean, really! Puff 'N Stuff? Come on.......

[CoasterMatt]

Lidsville...

hehehe

[3894]

He was 76.

No one did a better slow burn than Mr. Reilly.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Game Show Network (GSN) is running an all day tribute (http://www.gsn.com/cnr/) today to honor Charles.