Sorrell Booke

Booke succumbed to cancer in 1994. After Gilligan's Island he appeared in several other movies and televsion shows, perhaps most notably the miniseries Vanished, based on a novel by Fletcher Knebel (1971), uncredited in the Robert Redford spy thriller, Three Days of the Condor (1975), and on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie's workplace, Pendergast Tool and Die. Unlike fellow cast member Tina Louise, who was equally typecast as retro-glamourous movie queen Ginger Grant, he has willingly participated in all reunion movies, cartoons, and other events related to the program. Booke had a recurring role in Norman Lear's groundbreaking sitcom All in the Family as Mr. He is still instantly recognizable to the show's legions of fans, but his ability to be cast in other sorts of roles has been quite limited. Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me and A Fine Madness before transitioning to focus primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s. Johnson was typecast in this sort of role, and seems to have regarded his stint as The Professor as a mixed blessing.

Fluent in five languages, Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. The Professor was a genius who could build and devise ways of doing almost anything, except something which would get himself and the other castaways off of the island. Sorrell Booke (born January 4, 1930 in Buffalo, New York; died February 11, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. However, he is by far best known to the public as "The Professor" (a/k/a "Roy Hinckley") on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island, which was in first-run from 1964 to 1967 but has been shown in reruns essentially continuously since that time. He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle. Johnson's Hollywood career began in 1952, and his early roles were primarily in westerns and science fiction.

He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared with him in one of his films. He had a very distinguished record and was higly decorated for his service. Mister Johnson joined the Army Air Corps in World War II and served as a gunner on bombers. Johnson (born November 10, 1924) is an American television and film actor.

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