Tony & Emmy Award winning actor (and president of the Screen Actors Guild) Ken Howard died earlier today. The original Thomas Jefferson in 1776 which he of course got to reprise on screen.
Saw him in 1776, Seesaw & Promises Promises. I also remember him from The White Shadow. He was also in a series called Cane on CBS which also started Rita Moreno and Jimmy Smits.
Sad news. He was a favorite, especially in "1776". He co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow frequently and her husband Bruce created "The White Shadow". Aside from "1776" he co-starred with Paltrow in the short lived ABC situation comedy, "Adam's Rib".
He is so great in the SEESAW cast album and in everything else I've seen him in. I always loved his appearances at the SAG Awards. RIP, Mr. Howard, thank you for the great work you left behind.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
So sad. I had a chance to meet him after a performance of 1776 at Ford's Theatre a few years ago, and he was nothing but gracious in the face of a 30-something woman babbling about how that show changed her life.
He was probably my very first crush when I saw the film version of "1776", I thought that his red hair was amazing (I didn't know it was a wig). I watched every episode of "Adam's Rib" and "The White Shadow". He was such an amazing actor!