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John Irwin McGiver came to acting relatively late in life. He held B.A. and Master's degrees in English from Fordham, Columbia and Catholic Universities and spent his early years teaching drama and speech at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx. He had an early flirtation with the acting profession in 1938 as actor/director for the Irish Reperatory Theatre, but found his weekly income of $26.42 insufficient for daily survival. The next year he enlisted and saw action during World War II, fighting with the U.S. 7th Armored Division in Europe (including the Battle of the Bulge). When he was demobbed after six years in the army, he held the rank of Captain. He returned to teaching drama, with occasional forays into off-Broadway acting. In 1947, he married Chicago scenic designer Ruth Shmigelsky and settled down to live in a converted 19th-century former Baptist church.
There are conflicting stories as to how McGiver ended up becoming a film and television actor, but it happened sometime after one of his part-time acting performances in September 1955, either through the offices of an old University classmate turned stage producer or through the persuasive abilities of an agent from the Music Corporation of America. In any case, the portly, balding, owl-like and precisely spoken McGiver quickly developed an inimitable style as a comic (and occasionally serious) actor on television and in films. He was most memorable as the obtuse landscape contractor in The Gazebo (1959), a pompous jewelry salesman in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and an inept twitcher in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962). He also played Mr. Sowerberry in a television version of Oliver Twist (1959) and starred in his own (sadly short-lived) TV show, Many Happy Returns (1964), as the complaints manager of a department store. His dramatic roles included a senator in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and, on television, the corrupt mayor in The Front Page (1970), plus a rare villainous role in the TV episode The Birds and the Bees Affair (1966). Among his numerous guest starring roles on television, he was at his best as the self-absorbed Roswell Flemington, who learns a moral lesson in Sounds and Silences (1964) (1964).- Richard Merson was born on 14 May 1934 in Orpington, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Night Court (1984), Quantum Leap (1989) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He was married to Tamara Clark and Barbara Francis. He died on 1 June 2003 in Fulton, Texas, USA.
- Lee Gordon was born in Jefferson City and had deep roots in the capital city. An elementary school in Jefferson City is even named for his uncle, Thorpe Gordon. Lee Gordon was taking drama classes at Jefferson Junior College when KRCG was hiring a part-time announcer for the station. He began work at KRCG in April 1955, only a few weeks after the station had opened in February 1955. Mr. Gordon had only been working at KRCG when the station's full-time announcer quit. KRCG then offered him the job and he took it.
It was early in KRCG's history that he was the anchor for the station's 10:00 PM newscast, as well as its announcer for commercials. In 1956 he began his long stint as a weathercaster at the station. Lee Gordon also worked behind the scenes. In the days when KRCG produced a good deal of local programming, Lee Gordon directed many of those live local TV shows. In the days before ABC affiliate KCBJ (now KMIZ) opened in 1971, KRCG and Columbia station KOMU would divide up ABC programming between the two stations. It was Lee Gordon who chose which ABC shows would air on KRCG, everything from The Big Valley to The Johnny Cash Show. He served as KRCG's program manager and eventually its station manager.
Aside from his long stint as a weatherman on KRCG, many viewers might remember him best for playing Santa Claus on the station's long running children's show Showtime in the weeks before Christmas. He is also remembered as KRCG's horror host, The Count, on the station's horror movie anthology Tales of Terror in the early to mid Seventies. Tales of Terror included reruns of the classic TV series Thriller and such classic horror movies as Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Mummy (1932).
Gordon died in 2021. - Actress
Margo Sage was born on 30 June 1912 in Georgia, USA. She was an actress. She died on 1 April 1992 in Fulton, Georgia, USA.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Peggy Thompson was born on 9 November 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for All That Heaven Allows (1955), King of the Newsboys (1938) and Whirlpool (1935). She was married to Saul K. Padover. She died on 5 November 1987 in Fulton, Missouri, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Keenan R. Carter was an actor and producer, known for Above the High Road, Brando Unauthorized (2010) and Mega City Rising. He died on 3 October 2018 in South Fulton, Georgia, USA.- Yung Mazi was born on 2 October 1985 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Yung Mazi: Dream (2013), Yung Mazi: Nothin (2013) and Yung Mazi: Slippin (2013). He died on 6 August 2017 in South Fulton, Georgia, USA.
- Actress
Mary Sage was born on 30 June 1912 in Georgia, USA. She was an actress. She was married to William Olin Adcock. She died on 25 May 2001 in Fulton, Georgia, USA.- Pris Chojnacki was born on 1 April 1948 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. Pris died on 16 July 2016 in Fulton, Missouri, USA.
- Eura Neal was born on 21 September 1899 in Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA. She was married to William Burdette Neal. She died on 11 February 2003 in Union City, Fulton County, Georgia, USA.
- Charlie Bivins was born on 16 October 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He died on 11 March 1994 in Fulton County, Georgia, USA.
- Terry Green was born in 1966 in the USA. He died on 4 March 2015 in Fairburn, Fulton County, Georgia, USA.
- Actor
Dean Hall was born in 1908 in Rome, Georgia, USA. He was an actor. He died on 22 March 1962 in Fulton County, Georgia, USA.