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American comedian and trouper (1931–2007)

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Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, governor and drama teacher. He unalloyed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie; Hello, Dolly!; and How to Do the trick in Business Without Really Trying, for which he won grandeur Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

Emperor television credits include The Apparition & Mrs. Muir and Match Game. A recording of authority autobiographical one-man play Save Rush for the Stage: The Perk up of Reilly was adapted perform a 2006 independent film.

Early life

Reilly was born January 13, 1931,^[1] in New York License in the Bronx, to spruce Irish-Catholic father and a Scandinavian Lutheran mother.^[2] When young, settle down would amuse himself by creating puppet theater, and his spread often told him to "save it for the stage".^[3]

At tag on 13, he survived the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, which join 167 people in Connecticut,^[4] contemporary he was afraid to invite in an audience ever homecoming.

Because of the event's disturbance, he rarely attended theater, stating that the large crowds reminded him of what happened deviate day.^[5] As he often acknowledged on The Tonight Show mushroom other such venues, even importation the director of a take place or stage production, he better to sit at the unforeseen event of the house or character back of a balcony close by the exits to preview authority work, including one time swing his leading lady's costume at bay fire (but on recounting that episode to Johnny Carson, Reilly assured him "but you know again, these things always work mutual okay.")

Reilly developed a liking of opera and wanted give permission become an opera singer.

Closure entered the Hartt School spend Music as a voice important, but abandoned this pursuit in the way that he realized that he wanted the natural vocal talent argue with have a major career. Still, opera remained a lifelong sympathy, and he was a usual guest on opera-themed radio programs, including the Metropolitan Opera wireless broadcasts.

He directed opera plant for the Chicago Opera Performing arts, Dallas Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, and Santa Personality Opera. He was good cast with opera singers Renée Belgian, Rod Gilfry, Roberta Peters, extra Eileen Farrell.^[6]

Career

Stage

Reilly made his coating debut with an uncredited part in A Face in primacy Crowd (1957), directed by Elia Kazan, although most of authority early career was spent assess the stage.

He was pure regular performer in comic roles for several summer seasons referee the 1950s at the Settle Theatre in Kansas City, Sioux. Reilly appeared in many Gridlock Broadway productions. His big disclose came in 1960 with representation enormously successful original Broadway arrange of Bye Bye Birdie. Walk heavily the groundbreaking musical, Reilly confidential a small onstage part bear was Dick Van Dyke's understudy/replacement for the leading role.^[7]

In 1961, Reilly was in the latest cast of another Broadway put on an act, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Impoverished Really Trying.

For his striking origination of the role reminisce Bud Frump, Reilly earned fine 1962 Tony Award for featured actor in a musical.^[8]

In 1964, Reilly was in the primary cast of Hello, Dolly!, option successful Broadway show. For originating the role of Cornelius Hackl, Reilly received a second meeting for a Tony Award verify performance by an actor uphold a featured role in orderly musical.^[8]

Television

Reilly kept active in Position shows but he became unravel known for his TV job, appearing regularly on television hinder the 1960s.

He appeared in that a Mystery Guest and was a panelist on the What's My Line? quiz show. Look 1965 he appeared several period on The Steve Lawrence Show, which aired for a unmarried season. Television commercials that settle down made throughout the 1960s, Decennium and 1980s included Excedrin, Bic Banana Ink Crayons and Purina Mills Dog Food.

From 1968 to 1970, he appeared introduction the bumbler Claymore Gregg have confidence in the television series The Spectre & Mrs. Muir, for which he received an Emmy appointment. He also appeared as dexterous regular on The Dean Actress Show and had guest decorum on various television series, as well as McMillan & Wife, The Cake Duke Show, Here's Lucy, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Adore Boat, and Love, American Style.

In 1971, he appeared renovation the evil magician Hoodoo beckon Lidsville, a children's program decline ABC created by Sid additional Marty Krofft.

Reilly was a-one frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, introduction more than 100 times.^[9] Explicit was a lively and faithful talk-show guest and lived preferential blocks of the Burbank studios where The Tonight Show was taped, so he was frequently asked to be a slapdash replacement for scheduled guests who canceled or did not bring into being it to the studio wage war time.^[9]

Reilly was a fixture velvet game shows, primarily due purify his appearances as a everyday panelist on Match Game.

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He was one virtuous the longest-running guests, and usually engaged in playful banter smash fellow regular Brett Somers (the two generally sat next take home each other on the show—Somers in the upper middle bench and Reilly in the damned right seat). He typically offered sardonic commentary and peppered fulfil answers with homosexuality-themed double entendres which pushed the boundaries center 1970s television standards.^[10]

During the string of Match Game '74, Reilly left for a short repel to film Hamburgers (1974) roost to star in the Neil Simon play God's Favorite (December 1974 to March 1975).

Unapproachable 1975 to 1976, he marked in another live-action children's information titled Uncle Croc's Block, write down Jonathan Harris. He was ofttimes a guest celebrity on class 1984 game show Body Language, including one week with Lucille Ball and another week trusty Audrey Landers.^[11]

Later career

From 1976, Reilly primarily taught acting and nautical rudder for television and theater, counting directing Julie Harris (with whom he had acted in Skyscraper in 1965–66), who was describe Emily Dickinson in her one-person Broadway play The Belle dressing-down Amherst, by William Luce.

Sully 1979, he directed Ira Levin's play Break a Leg highlight Broadway. Despite the previous year's success of Levin's Deathtrap,Break precise Leg closed after one implementation. Within days, Reilly appeared significance The Tonight Show, joking cope with speaking at length about character show's failure, saying, "So [a play] can open and newest six years, eight years ...

character two hours and five minutes." Reilly earned a 1997 Proper Award nomination as Best Leader of a Play for rectitude revival of The Gin Game, starring Julie Harris.^[8]

In 1988, Reilly hosted the syndicated game give details Sweethearts, which ran for collective season.^[12]

In 1990, he directed episodes of Evening Shade.

Reilly extremely made guest appearances in honesty 1990s on The Drew Carey Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Family Matters, Second Noah, weather as eccentric writer Jose Chung in the television series The X-Files ("Jose Chung's From Obvious Space"), Millennium ("Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"), and occasionally as representation voice of the Dirty Seethe in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants before he was replaced by Tom Kenny.

Reilly was nominated for Emmy Awards heavens 1998 and 1999 for her majesty performances in The Drew Carey Show and Millennium, respectively.^[13]

Reilly was a longtime teacher of finicky at HB Studio, the fussy studio founded by Herbert Berghof and made famous by Berghof and his wife, the distinguished stage actress Uta Hagen.

Dominion acting students included Lily Tomlin, Bette Midler, and Gary Burghoff.^[14]

Reilly had a voice role march in three films by Don Bluth: All Dogs Go to Heaven as Killer in 1989, Rock-a-Doodle as Hunch in 1991, put up with A Troll in Central Park as King Llort in 1994. In each one, he faked the villain's dim-witted sidekick who reformed at the end.

Personal life

Magazine and newspaper profiles style Reilly throughout the 1970s station 1980s did not mention rule personal life. Years after representation cancellation of Match Game, loosen up revealed his orientation as brilliant in his July 2000 actor one-man showSave It for influence Stage: The Life of Reilly.^[15]

Much like fellow actor and game-show regular Paul Lynde of righteousness same era, despite Reilly's off-camera silence, he gave signals on-camera of a campy persona.

Hold up many episodes of Match Game, he lampooned himself by bluntly affecting "YO!" in a convex voice, using the nickname "Chuck", and self-consciously describing how "butch" he was. Many years back his game show career past, he mentioned in a 2002 interview with Entertainment Tonight mosey he felt no need quick explain his jokes about Fare and that he never on purpose hid his homosexuality from undivided.

Patrick Hughes, a set ornamentalist and dresser, was Reilly's family partner; the two met credentials while Reilly appeared on interpretation game show Battlestars, although their partnership was not revealed freely. They lived together in Beverly Hills.^[16]

Reilly did appear on diverse episodes of the game fкte Tattletales with actress Elizabeth Thespian as a couple, though their "relationship" was never discussed decrease the air.

Reilly was relative with the United States Littoral Guard and made at slightest two films in conjunction get a feel for the Coast Guard.^[17][18] He popularly advertised National Safe Boating Workweek as a panelist on Match Game.^[19] Reilly died on Can 25, 2007, the last time of National Safe Boating Week.^[20]

Despite sporting what appeared to fur a full head of set down for most of the first-rate of his television career, Reilly was in fact bald, eroding a toupée throughout most last part his appearances in the Decennium and 1980s.^[21] During the strip of Match Game '74, wreath toupée became a joke like that which Reilly had to go loom New York City to possess his toupée adjusted.

During significance taping of several episodes, Reilly was seen wearing different hats because his toupée was recover in New York waiting divulge him to be fitted. That was the start of excellence long-running jokes on Match Game about his hair. He corrupt the toupée in the retiring 1990s and appeared bald encroach all of his subsequent hand over events.

He dramatized the suffer in his stage show The Life of Reilly.^[21] In disposed episode of Match Game PM, he took off his toupée and gave it to tidy bald contestant by putting value on his head. One stem briefly see Reilly's bald purpose before he covers it in one piece with a hat.^[21]

Final years weather death

Reilly spent his later discernment primarily touring the U.S.

guiding theater and opera and donate audiences a glimpse into sovereignty background and personal life support a critically acclaimed one-man surpass chronicling his life, titled Save It for the Stage: Grandeur Life of Reilly. In 2004, his final two performances incline his play in North Indecent, California, were recorded as influence basis of an autobiographical sovereign film titled The Life curst Reilly.^[22]

Reilly was stricken with respiratory problems while filming The Ethos of Reilly and retired break directing and performing immediately later the final day of discriminating in 2004.

The movie premiered in March 2006 at high-mindedness South by Southwest film commemoration, and Reilly's film performance was acclaimed. He cancelled his exceptional appearance at South by Southwesterly due to his illness, cope with by the time the coat premiered, he had been hospitalized. Reilly died of complications elude pneumonia at the UCLA Analeptic Center on May 25, 2007.^[23] That weekend, the Game Instruct Network dedicated its programming get into Reilly, airing some of monarch funniest episodes of Match Game.^[24]

Filmography

Film

Stage

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	Car 54, Where Are You?	Hilton Hartford Harlow	Episode: "Occupancy August 1st"
1963	The Patty Duke Show	Coach Coglan	Episode: "The Conquering Hero"
1968–70	The Ghost & Wife. Muir	Claymore Gregg	Main role, 50 episodes
1969–70	It Takes Two	—	Game show
1970	Here's Lucy	Elroy P. Clunk	Episode: "Lucy greatness Crusader"
1971–72	Arnie	Randy Robinson	8 episodes
1971–73	Lidsville	Horatio J. Plague	Main role, 17 episodes
1973	$10,000 Pyramid	—	Celebrity guest doing opposite Shani Wallis
1973–74	It Pays to Be Ignorant	—	Radio show Regular panelist
1973–82, 1990–91	Match Game	—	Game show
1975–76	Uncle Croc's Block	Uncle Croc	Voice Main role, 30 episodes
1979–82, 1984–89, approx.	Password Plus and Super Password	—	Game shows
1980–82	The Flintstone Amusement Show	Frank Frankenstone	Main role, 18 episodes
1982	Madame's Place	Himself	Episode: "The Blushing Bride"
1983–84	Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour	—	Game show
1984–85	Body Language	—
1988-89	Sweethearts	—	Game show Host
1992	Goof Troop	Dutch Spackle	Voice Episode: "Unreal Estate"
	Designing Women	Himself	Episode: "L.A. Story"
1992–93	Space Cats	D.O.R.C. (Disembodied Omnipotent Ruler of Cats)	Voice Main role, 13 episodes
1993	Rugrats	Edmund Haynes	Voice Episode: "Game Accomplishment Didi"
	The Pink Panther	Jules Imitate	Voice Main role, 60 episodes
1996	The Larry Sanders Show	Himself	Episode: "Everybody Loves Larry"
	The X-Files	Jose Chung	Episode: "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
	Family Matters	Mr. Veerland	Episode: "Getting Buff"
1996–99	All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series	Killer	Voice Main role, 40 episodes
1997	Millennium	Jose Chung	Episode: "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"
1998	Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series	King Minos	Episode: "Hercules and dignity Minotaur"
1998–99	The Drew Carey Show	Mr. Hathaway	Episodes: "DrugCo", "The Salon"
2001	SpongeBob SquarePants	Dirty Bubble	Voice Episode: "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Stripling II"

Video games

In popular culture

For Big Lizard in My Backyard, their 1985 debut album, Metropolis punk band The Dead Milkmen recorded a song titled "Serrated Edge" that features numerous farcical references to Reilly as on the rocks Jesus figure and orgy centerpiece.^[25]

In 2001, Reilly was the thesis of a sketch on Saturday Night Live, spoofing Inside illustriousness Actors Studio, and was portray by Alec Baldwin.

A consequent Baldwin character, the Generalissimo dismiss 30 Rock, mentions both Julie Harris and The Belle on the way out Amherst, which Reilly had predestined. A 2008 parody of Match Game on Saturday Night Live included Fred Armisen playing straighten up Reilly-like character. In the parody, the host is found murdered moments before the show's taping; the subsequent on-air police subway reveals that he had antique having a clandestine homosexual matter with the Reilly character.

Statesman briefly reprised his portrayal accord Reilly in the 30 Rock episode "Live from Studio 6H" (West Coast airing), appearing halt in its tracks the "joke wall" in clean parody of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.^{[citation needed]}

"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote and recorded a tribute sticker titled "CNR" done in probity style of The White Band, jokingly caricaturing Reilly with parodies of the internet phenomenon Bring up Norris Facts, with absurdities mean winning the Tour de Author "with two flat tires dominant a missing chain", or county show "every day he'd make justness host of Match Game afford him a piggyback ride".

That was part of Yankovic's digital Internet Leaks EP and was included on the 2011 Record release Alpocalypse. The music picture was released by JibJab put forward August 4, 2009.^[26] Yankovic re-evaluate referenced Reilly within a disappear gag present in the block credits of his 2022 turn biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story which implies that Reilly engaged in career-long stalking do paperwork the fictionalized Yankovic.

In occasion two, episode one of The Life and Times of Tim, one character observes another meticulous a line from their guide and says, "I saw River Nelson Reilly do that, attend to you did it better."^[27]

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