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How many Oscar winners can you think of who later had their own series on television?

 

Off the top of my head...

 

- Loretta Young (The Loretta Young Show)

- Cloris Leachman (Phyllis)

- Shirley Booth (Hazel)

- Jack Albertson (Chico & The Man)

- Hattie McDaniel (Beulah)

- Geena Davis (The Geena Davis Show, Commander In Chief)

- Whoopi Goldberg (Whoopi)

- Bette Davis (a pilot with La Wickes, at least)

- Patty Duke (The Patty Duke Show)

- Walter Brennan (The Real McCoys)

- Ellen Burstyn (The Ellen Burstyn Show, following LWL on most of these ABC stations...)

- Yul Brynner (The King & I)

- Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)

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Off the top of my head...

 

- Loretta Young (The Loretta Young Show)

- Cloris Leachman (Phyllis)

- Shirley Booth (Hazel)

- Jack Albertson (Chico & The Man)

- Hattie McDaniel (Beulah)

- Geena Davis (The Geena Davis Show, Commander In Chief)

- Whoopi Goldberg (Whoopi)

- Bette Davis (a pilot with La Wickes, at least)

- Patty Duke (The Patty Duke Show)

- Walter Brennan (The Real McCoys)

- Ellen Burstyn (The Ellen Burstyn Show, following LWL on most of these ABC stations...)

- Yul Brynner (The King & I)

- Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)

 

- Henry Fonda (The Deputy 1959-61; The Smith Family, ABC 1971-72)

- Cher (Sonny & Cher/Cher CBS 1971 - 77)

- Bette Davis (Hotel, ABC, 1983)(2 hour pilot/1st episode only)

- Anne Baxter (Hotel, ABC, 1983 - 86) (She replaced Bette Davis! How All About Eve!! ;))

 

- Donna Reed (The Donna Reed Show, ABC 1958-1966)

- Shirley MacLaine (Shirley's World, ABC,1971)

- Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family (ABC 1970-74); Shirley (NBC 1979)) :D

*TV Trivia Time: Miss Jones also appeared in the pilot shot for Seinfeld pal/comedian/now host of The Marriage Ref's Tom Papa's short-lived sitcom Come to Papa (NBC 2004) as his mom, alongside another TV veteran, Hal Linden (Barney Miller) as Papa's father.

 

When the pilot sold to series, their parts were recast with Mimi Kennedy (Dharma & Greg) and Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years). :(

Last laugh: it only ran FOUR episodes! lucythrill.JPG

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*TV Trivia Time: Miss Jones also appeared in the pilot shot for Seinfeld pal/comedian/now host of The Marriage Ref's Tom Papa's short-lived sitcom Come to Papa (NBC 2004) as his mom, alongside another TV veteran, Hal Linden (Barney Miller) as Papa's father.

 

 

Tom Papa? :lucydisgust: It's probably for the best.

 

 

- Martin Balsam (Archie Bunker's Place)

- Karl Malden (Streets of San Francisco)

- Linda Hunt (NCIS)

- Miyoshi Umeki (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)

- Anna Paquin (True Blood)

- Rita Moreno (9 To 5)

- Eileen Heckart (The 5 Mrs. Buchanans)

- Dianne Wiest (In Treatment)

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You can say that again! lucysmirk.JPG

 

- Celeste Holm (Honestly, Celeste!)

- Judy Garland (Juvenile Oscar - The Judy Garland Show)

- Mickey Rooney (Juvenile Oscar - Hey Mulligan, Mickey)

- Julie Andrews (The Julie Andrews Hour, Julie)

- Timothy Hutton (Leverage)

- Lee Grant (Fay)

- Helen Hayes (The Snoop Sisters)

- James Stewart (The Jimmy Stewart Show)

- Frank Sinatra (The Frank Sinatra Show)

- Bing Crosby (The Bing Crosby Show)

- Kathy Bates (Harry's Law)

- Broderick Crawford (Highway Patrol)

- Richard Dreyfuss (The Education of Max Bickford)

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- Celeste Holm (Honestly, Celeste!)

- Judy Garland (Juvenile Oscar - The Judy Garland Show)

- Mickey Rooney (Juvenile Oscar - Hey Mulligan, Mickey)

- Julie Andrews (The Julie Andrews Hour, Julie)

- Timothy Hutton (Leverage)

- Lee Grant (Fay)

- Helen Hayes (The Snoop Sisters)

- James Stewart (The Jimmy Stewart Show)

- Frank Sinatra (The Frank Sinatra Show)

- Bing Crosby (The Bing Crosby Show)

- Kathy Bates (Harry's Law)

- Broderick Crawford (Highway Patrol)

- Richard Dreyfuss (The Education of Max Bickford)

Show-off! ;)

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The O'Neals? Really? We're counting "reality" (cough, cough) show dreck? Well...it probably was scripted, so I guess I've got to go with it. Yuk. :rolleyes:

Not only that but as impressive as their lists ARE, they did list a whole load of supporting Oscar winners and supporting players on shows, i only wanted the BIG names. Ok now you can do BIG STARS who were nominated for Oscars but did not win like Barbara Stanwick . . . . but later got TV shows to keep their careers going.

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The O'Neals? Really? We're counting "reality" (cough, cough) show dreck? Well...it probably was scripted, so I guess I've got to go with it. Yuk. :rolleyes:

 

Well, if you want to get technical, Henry Fonda, Cher, and Shirley MacLaine all won their Oscars after their television series ended, so they wouldn't be correct answers to Claude's original question. ;)

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Well, if you want to get technical, Henry Fonda, Cher, and Shirley MacLaine all won their Oscars after their television series ended, so they wouldn't be correct answers to Claude's original question. ;)

There ya go, LOL! The expert on everything chimes in, LOL! But those lists you and others came up with were terrific though, had no idea there were that many, LOL!

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