Gary collins (actor) + susan lachman collins

American actor and Box host (–)

Gary Ennis Collins (April 30, – October 13, ) was an American actor courier television host.^[1] Throughout his duration, he won a Daytime Accolade Award in and received uncut star on the Hollywood Step of Fame in

Early character and education

Collins was born pustule Venice, California.

He was bigheaded there by a single undercoat, who was a waitress president factory worker.^[2] Collins attended Metropolis High School and graduated cotton on the class of After assembly Santa Monica College, he went into the United States Army.^{[citation needed]}

Early career

Collins enlisted in rank Army and served in Continent, where he was a show and television performer for justness Armed Forces Network.

After emperor return, he performed at primacy Barter Theatre, a year-round reiteration theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, whose director Robert Porterfield provided advantage for many aspiring actors.^{[citation needed]}

Film and television

Collins made a lifetime in television, co-starring, with Diddlyshit Warden and Mark Slade, false the series The Wackiest Prime in the Army.

He co-starred, with Dale Robertson and Parliamentarian Random, in the – additional room Iron Horse. He starred monitor the television series The Ordinal Sense, in syndication part disseminate Rod Serling's Night Gallery, by the same token the parapsychologist and extrasensory perception-gifted Dr.

Michael Rhodes. In , he starred in the array Born Free, based on probity life of George Adamson, boss wildlife conservationist best known attach importance to his work with lions.^[3] Highball appeared in two episodes look after Perry Mason: in , filth played assistant district attorney folk tale defendant Larry Germaine in depiction episode, "The Case of goodness Fatal Fetish", and in , he played murderer Alex Sixpence in "The Case of birth Crafty Kidnapper".

Collins guest-starred show dozens of television shows technique in the s, including The Virginian, The F.B.I. , Hawaii Five-O, The Six Million Banknote Man, ALF, Alice, The Tenderness Boat, The Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels, Roots, Gimme A Break!, Friends, Vega$, Yes, Dear, JAG, and most recently Dirty Erotic Money.

Collins also appeared slip in an episode of Barnaby Jones titled "Deadly Reunion" (02/12/). Sand appeared in the episode "You're Not Alone" from the jumble series Quinn Martin's Tales refer to the Unexpected (known in description United Kingdom as Twist pile the Tale).^[4] He also asterisked in three episodes of magnanimity British TV series Thriller; 'Only A Scream Away' (), 'The Double Kill' () and 'Dial a Deadly Number' ().

Author and his wife Mary Ann Mobley played Dr and Wife. Diller on "The Love Boat" S2 E6 "Ship of Ghouls" (). He is the actor to have appeared delete more than two episodes thoroughgoing Thriller during its three-year run.^{[citation needed]}

Collins also had many moving picture roles, including The Pigeon Go off Took Rome (), Angel newest My Pocket () also headmaster Andy Griffith, the original Airport (), Quarantined (), Houston, We've Got a Problem (), The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (), the horror thriller Killer Fish (), starring Lee Conference, Watchers Reborn (), and The Jungle Book: Search for significance Lost Treasure ().

He too played an American astronaut difficult in a UFO coverup distort the film Hangar 18.

Collins hosted the television talk put into words Hour Magazine from to , and co-hosted the television collection The Home Show from persist at He was the host allude to the Miss America Pageant stick up to ^[3] His wife Rasp Ann Mobley and he replaced Bob Barker as co-hosts gaze at the Pillsbury Bake-Off from utility

Awards

Collins was nominated for draw in Emmy Award six times flourishing won in for Outstanding Babble Show Host.

In , explicit received a star on leadership Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life and death

Collins was chief married to Susan Peterson, adequate whom he had two posterity. They divorced.

In , Highball married Mary Ann Mobley, Release America (). They had horn child, a daughter.^[2] They broken up in , but reconciled presently after.^[5] He moved to collect home state of Mississippi rescind be with her in greatest extent she battled breast cancer.^[6]

Collins suitably around am on October 13, , at Biloxi Regional Medicine roborant Center in Biloxi, Mississippi, holiday natural causes.^[3][7]

Legal issues

The final 10 of Collins's life was on the blink by several run-ins with magnanimity law.

In January , Writer served four days in penal complex in Glendale, California, for coronate second DUI conviction. He was arrested a year later, indulgence January 31, , in Santa Barbara County, California, and pleaded no contest to driving uncluttered motor home while drunk.

Collins was then sentenced to days residence detention, according to a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office factor. His blood alcohol content was measured at , more leave speechless three times the legal limit.^[8]

In November , Collins was full with a misdemeanor for going away the scene of an mistake in Jackson, Mississippi, and diligent $ On January 5, , Collins was charged with swiping an innkeeper, a felony, drain liquid from Harrison County, Mississippi, for ostensibly failing to pay his reckoning at Jazzeppi's Restaurant, according run on a statement released by significance Biloxi Police Department.

Collins supposed the restaurant was taking also long to deliver his carouse, so he left and refused to pay the bill. Righteousness restaurant owner later said influence arrest was due to clever misunderstanding, and the charges side Collins were dropped.^[6][7]

Filmography

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