Post by jimsteel on Jan 17, 2014 2:15:38 GMT -5
Dave Madden -- who played "The Partridge Family's" aggravated band manager on the 1970s TV show -- has died after a long illness at age 82 ... TMZ has learned.
Madden played Reuben Kincaid on the show ... who was often bedeviled by the antics of the Partridge kids, particularly Danny, played by Danny Bonaduce.
Dave's former agent tells TMZ ... he died of congestive heart and kidney failure early this morning.
Madden also appeared on another popular 70s TV show, "Laugh-In" and was the author of a couple books, including a book of memoirs published in 2007.
We're told Madden died in Florida ... where he lived with his wife.
Read more: www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/#ixzz2qdaiP1Un
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as "The Professor," the fix-it man who kept his fellow "Gilligan's Island" castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.
Johnson died Thursday morning at his home in Washington State of natural causes, said his agent, Mike Eisenstadt.
Johnson was a busy but little-known character actor when he was cast in the slapstick 1960s comedy about seven people marooned on an uncharted Pacific island.
He played high school science teacher Roy Hin
Madden played Reuben Kincaid on the show ... who was often bedeviled by the antics of the Partridge kids, particularly Danny, played by Danny Bonaduce.
Dave's former agent tells TMZ ... he died of congestive heart and kidney failure early this morning.
Madden also appeared on another popular 70s TV show, "Laugh-In" and was the author of a couple books, including a book of memoirs published in 2007.
We're told Madden died in Florida ... where he lived with his wife.
Read more: www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/#ixzz2qdaiP1Un
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as "The Professor," the fix-it man who kept his fellow "Gilligan's Island" castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.
Johnson died Thursday morning at his home in Washington State of natural causes, said his agent, Mike Eisenstadt.
Johnson was a busy but little-known character actor when he was cast in the slapstick 1960s comedy about seven people marooned on an uncharted Pacific island.
He played high school science teacher Roy Hin
