Dean Jones, RIP

[GA Russell]

Dean Jones was the star of a TV show from the early '60s called Ensign O'Toole.   My dad was a naval officer, and both of my folks really loved that show.

From there he went on to adult comedies like Under the Yum Yum Tree, and then on to Disney movies.  But I'll always remember him as Ensign O'Toole.  RIP.

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[JSngry]

I'll look at stuff like this and not give a damn about the movie itself, I'll just take in the character of the players...style = substance, and affordable at any cost the Disney way.

 

[Shawn]

I saw him in a lot of Disney films growing up in the 70s.  The Love Bug movies and Blackbeard's Ghost were particular favorites.  That Darn Cat as well....

Edited September 3, 2015 by Shawn

[medjuck]

I really didn't know his work that well but we cast him as the villain in Beethoven because he auditioned and was great.  One day during the shoot HE thanked me for making  a film with no swearing.  I said he was welcome but to be honest to surprised to realize  the film had no cursing.   He was a terrific villain. 

Edited September 3, 2015 by medjuck

[duaneiac]

Another celebrity I honestly had no idea was still among us until now.  May he RIP

As a kid, I think I first saw him in

I always tend to confuse him with Ken Berry, but I guess Ken Berry was the poor man's Dean Jones.

[Shawn]

I initially thought Dean Jones was in The Cat From Outer Space but when I looked up the film it was Ken Berry.  So you're not the only one that confuses them. 

 

[JSngry]

Ken Berry played for the White Sox, that's how I keep them apart.

The dude had a lot more work than I'd imagined!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Jones_(actor)

I think it's kinda weird that an actor would be thankful for a role with no swearing, but just as weird that it's it's an oddity when there isn't. I mean, I curse like a sailor in heat myself, but I can also conversate without it, and will, if/when. and when it comes to story telling, the keener the dialog, the more I appreciate the lack of easy choices. Not that cursing is always an easy choice, no, but sometimes there are options, ya' know? Sometimes there are options. And sometimes I dig it when options are exercised towards the less obvious ones.

Either way, it seems like a gentlemanly thing to do, to thank the producer for something like that, not get all prissy about it, just say thanks, dude, I appreciate what you're doing here. Might well have just been a  coincidence, but, hey, thanks anyway. Gentlemanly-ness is also an option exercised far too infrequently these days, I think.

Along those lines, yeah, thanks to Joe Medjuck for a resume that is notable for being absent of any really easy-way-out rolling-in-their-own-cheapness movies. Gotta be a tough gig sometimes, but, yeah, thanks for not going for the okie-doke on this stuff.