Black Hair Media Forum : Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:31 +0000 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:01:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.15 360 Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=353517 <![CDATA[Black Hair Media Forum]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com//forum_images/BHM_Logo_v5_Forum.jpg http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/ <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : MissinCali wrote: Wow,...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084414.html#10084414 Author: Guidette
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Posted: Jan 19 2013 at 10:01am

Originally posted by MissinCali MissinCali wrote:

Wow, he out lived most of the kids on the show. may he rest in peace.



Yep the only left that played his kids is ToddCry 
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Posted: Jan 19 2013 at 7:02am

Cry]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:02:26 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084291.html#10084291 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : Rip ]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084267.html#10084267 Author: Sleek
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Posted: Jan 19 2013 at 6:06am

Rip]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:06:42 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084267.html#10084267 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : Wow, he out lived most of...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084255.html#10084255 Author: MissinCali
Subject: 353517
Posted: Jan 19 2013 at 5:25am

Wow, he out lived most of the kids on the show. may he rest in peace.]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:25:33 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084255.html#10084255 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : r.i.p ]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084218.html#10084218 Author: Lilaca
Subject: 353517
Posted: Jan 19 2013 at 3:29am

r.i.p]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:29:11 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10084218.html#10084218 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : Bored w/Out Me? wrote:He...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078875.html#10078875 Author: Guidette
Subject: 353517
Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 5:58pm

Originally posted by Bored w/Out Me? Bored w/Out Me? wrote:

He was the coolest Yt man back in the day for raising them black kids...



Hell yeah
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 5:21pm

He was the coolest Yt man back in the day for raising them black kids...]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:21:34 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078794.html#10078794 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : rip ]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078772.html#10078772 Author: lady_tee
Subject: 353517
Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 5:08pm

rip]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:08:39 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078772.html#10078772 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : EasterBell wrote:RIP.. I...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078581.html#10078581 Author: Guidette
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:37pm

Originally posted by EasterBell EasterBell wrote:

RIP.. I must confess I never really like that show though..


ShockedGirl gary made the show and when they brought in his new wife and that little red head kid ..I was done
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Subject: 353517
Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:36pm

Now the world dont move, to the beat of just one drum.....
]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:36:00 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078579.html#10078579 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : RIP.. I must confess I never really...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078578.html#10078578 Author: EasterBell
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:34pm

RIP.. I must confess I never really like that show though..]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:34:48 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078578.html#10078578 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : Ladycoils wrote: I didn&#039;t...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078573.html#10078573 Author: Guidette
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:32pm

Originally posted by Ladycoils Ladycoils wrote:

I didn't know he was still alive.. May he RIP


Yeah me too 
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:30pm

I didn't know he was still alive.. May he RIP]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:30:32 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078571.html#10078571 <![CDATA[Rip Mr.Drummond Dad From Diff'rent Strokes : NEW YORK (AP) -- Conrad Bain,...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/rip-mrdrummond-dad-from-diffrent-strokes_topic353517_post10078562.html#10078562 Author: Guidette
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 3:23pm





NEW YORK (AP) -- Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.
 
Bain died Monday of natural causes in his hometown of Livermore, Calif., according to his daughter, Jennifer Bain. He was 89.
 
The show that made him famous debuted on NBC in 1978, an era when television comedies tackled relevant social issues. "Diff'rent Strokes" touched on serious themes but was known better as a family comedy that drew most of its laughs from its standout child actor, Gary Coleman.
 
Bain played wealthy Manhattan widower Philip Drummond, who promised his dying housekeeper he would raise her sons, played by Coleman and Todd Bridges. Race and class relations became topics on the show as much as the typical trials of growing up.
 
Coleman, with his sparkling eyes and perfect comic timing, became an immediate star, and Bain, with his long training as a theater actor, proved an ideal straight man. The series lasted six seasons on NBC and two on ABC.
 
In the show's heyday, Bain didn't mind being overshadowed by the focus on the show's children. He praised Coleman and Bridges as natural talents without egos.
 
But "Diff'rent Strokes" is remembered mostly for its child stars' adult troubles.
 
Coleman, who died in 2010, had financial and legal problems in addition to continuing ill health from the kidney disease that stunted his growth and required transplants. Bridges and Dana Plato, who played Bain's teenage daughter, both had arrest records and drug problems, and Plato died of an overdose in 1999 at age 34.
 
Bain said in interviews later that he struggled to talk about his TV children's troubled lives because of his love for them. After Bridges started to put his drug troubles behind him in the early 1990s, he told Jet magazine that Bain had become like a real father to him.
 
Bain went directly into "Diff'rent Strokes" from another comedy, "Maude," which aired on CBS from 1972 to 1978.
 
As Dr. Arthur Harmon, the conservative neighbor often zinged by Bea Arthur's liberal feminist, Bain became so convincing as a doctor that a woman once stopped him in an airport seeking medical advice.
 
At a nostalgia gathering in 1999, he lamented the fading of situation comedies that he said were about something.
 
"I think they got off the track when they first hired a standup comic to do the lead," he said. "Instead of people creating real situations, you get people trying to act funny."
 
Before those television roles, Bain had appeared occasionally in films, including "A Lovely Way to Die," "Coogan's Bluff," "The Anderson Tapes," "I Never Sang for My Father" and Woody Allen's "Bananas." He also played the clerk at the Collinsport Inn in the 1960s television show "Dark Shadows."
 
A native of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Bain arrived in New York in 1948 after serving in the Canadian army during World War II. He was still studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts when he acquired his first role on television's "Studio One."
 
A quick study who could play anything from Shakespeare to O'Neill, he found work in stock companies in the United States and the Bahamas, making his New York debut in 1956 as Larry Slade in "The Iceman Cometh" at the Circle in the Square.
 
With his plain looks and down-to-earth manner, he was always cast as a character actor.
 
It was an audition for a role in the 1971 film "Cold Turkey" that led Bain to TV stardom. He didn't get the part but "Cold Turkey" director Norman Lear remembered him when he created "Maude."
 
Conrad Stafford Bain attended high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, deciding on his life's work after an appearance as the stage manager in a high school production of "Our Town."
 
He married artist Monica Sloan in 1945. She died in 2009. He is survived by three children: Jennifer, Kent and Mark




Todd is the only one leftCry


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