Gene Bury
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Aliens Aren’t the Only Ones Affected by Germs
Gene Barry, who once played Richard M. Nixon in a 1982 Atlanta production of Watergate: A Musical, has died at the age of 90. His wide-ranging career included dapper lawmen and a Tony-nominated turn on Broadway, but he’s probably best-remembered as Dr. Clayton Forrester, the man who diagnosed that the Martians died from the sniffles in War of the Worlds and inspired the name of the mad scientist antagonist on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He helped set the archetype for the unorthodox crime fighter, wearing a derby hat and spangled as the gambling marshall Bat Masterson who preferred getting out of trouble with his gilt-tipped cane rather than a gun, and as the L.A. police captain with a mansion, chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce and bevy of babes as Amos Burke in Burke’s Law in the 1960s. He spent most of the next 30 years as a special guest star on shows like Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Crazy Like a Fox, Charlie’s Angels, and was the very special murderer in the Colombo pilot as a psychiatrist who kills his wife, with a brief rebound in a Tony nominated-stint in 1984 as the less flamboyant half of the central gay couple in La Cage Aux Folles.
Or
Aliens Aren’t the Only Ones Affected by Germs
Gene Barry, who once played Richard M. Nixon in a 1982 Atlanta production of Watergate: A Musical, has died at the age of 90. His wide-ranging career included dapper lawmen and a Tony-nominated turn on Broadway, but he’s probably best-remembered as Dr. Clayton Forrester, the man who diagnosed that the Martians died from the sniffles in War of the Worlds and inspired the name of the mad scientist antagonist on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He helped set the archetype for the unorthodox crime fighter, wearing a derby hat and spangled as the gambling marshall Bat Masterson who preferred getting out of trouble with his gilt-tipped cane rather than a gun, and as the L.A. police captain with a mansion, chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce and bevy of babes as Amos Burke in Burke’s Law in the 1960s. He spent most of the next 30 years as a special guest star on shows like Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Crazy Like a Fox, Charlie’s Angels, and was the very special murderer in the Colombo pilot as a psychiatrist who kills his wife, with a brief rebound in a Tony nominated-stint in 1984 as the less flamboyant half of the central gay couple in La Cage Aux Folles.
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