Marion Eileen Ross (born October 25,
1928) is an American retired actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion
Cunningham on the ABC television
sitcom Happy Days, on which
she starred from 1974 to 1984 and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Before her success on Happy Days, Ross appeared in a variety of
film roles, appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Sabrina (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Teacher's Pet (1958), Some Came Running (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959),
and Honky (1971), as
well as several minor television roles, one of which was on television's The Lone Ranger (1954).
Ross also starred in The Evening Star (1996), for which she was nominated
for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Since the
1990s, Ross has been known for voice-over work on animated television series,
including King of the Hill and SpongeBob SquarePants,
among others and recurring roles on The Drew Carey Show, Gilmore Girls, and Brothers
& Sisters and guest appearances.
Alan
Thicke (born Alan
Willis Jeffrey; 1 March 1947 – 13 December 2016) was a Canadian actor,
songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is the father of singer Robin Thicke. In 2013, Thicke was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
Thicke was known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. Thicke was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, the son of Shirley "Joan"
Isobel Marie (née Greer), a nurse, and William Jeffery, a
stockbroker. They divorced in 1953. His mother remarried Brian Thicke, a
physician, and they moved to Elliot Lake. Alan Thicke graduated from Elliot Lake Secondary
School in 1965[4] and was elected homecoming king. He went on to attend the University of Western
Ontario joining the Delta Upsilon fraternity. hicke
played Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist and father, on the family sitcom Growing Pains. When the show began, Jason was moving
his psychiatry practice into the home to be closer to the family's children
while the family matriarch Maggie, played by Joanna Kerns, resumed her career as a reporter. Growing
Pains debuted on ABC in 1985 and ran until 1992. Thicke reprised his
role in two reunion Tmovies, The Growing Pains Movie (2000) and Growing
Pains: Return of the Seavers (2004)
Wil
Shriner (born December 6,
1953) is an American actor, comedian, film director, screenwriter and game show
host. Shriner was born in New York City, New York, the twin brother of soap opera actor Kin Shriner, and the son of Eileen "Pixie" McDermott
and Herb Shriner, a Hoosier humorist who had several shows in the early days
of television, including Two for the Money and The
Herb Shriner Show. Wil made his first appearance on The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson and then went on to be a
regular on the NBC morning show The David Letterman Show. For
one season in the 1980s (1987–88), he hosted The Wil Shriner Show,
a nationally syndicated Group W television talk show. TV Guide described the program as "a daily
variety-talk show featuring celebrity guests, segments on health and fitness,
and interviews with authors and experts." He also
hosted two game shows, the American version of That's My
Dog (replacing Steve Skrovan) from 1993 until its cancellation in 1995
and Small Talk.
During the early 1990s, he also hosted a weekly syndicated series about amateur
and well-known inventors called Why Didn't I Think of That?, which
ran for two years. He also hosted the Miss Teen USA 1989 pageant.
He spent four years as a correspondent and guest host on the ABC network
morning show Home Show. In a 1990 episode of the television
show Designing Women,
Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) references
Wil Shriner as being the emcee for the 1976 Miss Georgia pageant.
He began directing sitcoms in 2000, including episodes of Frasier, Becker,
and Everybody Loves Raymond. He also directed episodes
of Raising Dad, My Wife and Kids, Norm, Married
to the Kellys, Luis, Ladies Man, Two Guys
and a Girl, and Living With Fran. In 2006, he wrote the screenplay for,
and directed the feature film Hoot, which was released by New Line Cinema on over 3000
screens. The family film came out on DVD in August 2006. Hoot was
added to the film collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 2009. He
now regularly appears on the Paul and Young Ron morning radio show on BIG105.9 FM and also on Real Radio
92.1 FM.[] He is also the host of the weekly 'The
Johnny Carson Show' podcast.