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- John Travolta as Danny Zuko. Travolta is still the one that Hollywood wants. The 69-year-old father of three, married to the late Kelly Preston, has acted in tons of movies, including Pulp Fiction (1994), Face/Off (1997), Wild Hogs (2007), Hairspray (2007), Bolt (2008), Savages (2012), Gotti (2018), The Fanatic (2019) and Paradise City (2022).
- Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson. Newton-John died after a 30-year journey with breast cancer at age 73 in 2022, but her legacy will live on forever. She's best remembered for her Grammy-winning music career, rather than film (the exceptions being Grease, Xanadu and Glee).
- Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo. Following her Grease days, Channing really hit her stride in the world of TV, playing the Emmy-winning role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing for seven years.
- Jeff Conaway as Kenickie. Post-Grease, Conaway earned a part on the show Taxi and continued with music as the frontman for the band 3 1/2. In his personal life, he had problems with drug use and often spoke out about his experiences with substance abuse.
- 7 Alan Alda
- 6 Loretta Swit
- 5 Jamie Farr
- 4 Gary Burghoff
- 3 Mike Farrell
- 2 Jeff Maxwell
- 1 Odessa Cleveland
Age: 88 years
Alan Alda played Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce for all eleven seasons of M*A*S*H, and he was the only actor to appear in all 256 episodes.He won five Emmy Awards for his work on the show, and he has remained a well-known and successful actor to this day. Most recently, he had a recurring role in the Emmy Award-nominated TV series Ray Donovan and a supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film A Marriage Story. Some may also remember him for his role as the antagonist in the...
Age: 86 years
Loretta Swit played Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the only woman in the main cast of M*A*S*H. Swit had guest-starred on several popular TV shows in the early 1970s, including Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke and Mission: Impossible, butit wasn't until she landed the role of Houlihan that she became a household name. Her performance was critically acclaimed, and she won two Emmy Awards out of ten nominations for her performance on M*A*S*H. These days, Swit seems to be mostly retired from acting. Accord...
Age: 89 years
Jamie Farr played Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger on M*A*S*H for all eleven seasons, although his character only appeared in a recurring role for the first three seasons before being upped to series regular status for season four. Before Farr acted on M*A*S*H, he actually did serve in Korea with the United States Army, and according to an article Farr wrote for the U.S. Naval Institute, he wore his "Real dog-tags on M*A*S*H." In the years since M*A*S*H wrapped, Farr has held roles in a number of...
Age: 80 years
Gary Burghoff played the popular character Walter "Radar" O'Reilly on M*A*S*H for the first eight seasons of the show's run. He was the youngest of the main characters on the show and celebrated his 80th birthday in May 2023. Burghoff is notable for being the only actor from the movie M*A*S*H (1970) to reprise his role as a main cast member on the television series. He left the show in 1979, but he returned later that year for a two-part special episode called "Goodbye Radar." Good things hap...
Age: 85 years
Mike Farrell joined the cast of M*A*S*H in season four as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, a replacement for Wayne Rogers' character "Trapper" John. Farrell's wife at the time, Judy Farrell, also acted on M*A*S*H in the recurring role of Nurse Able. In recent years, he has guest-starred on popular TV dramas like NCIS. In 2016, he also played Lee Miglin in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
Age: 76 years
Jeff Maxwell was never a series regular on M*A*S*H, but he appeared on the show in a recurring role for ten years. Many of his earlier appearances on the show were uncredited, but as time went on, his role on the show increased, and he became a beloved cast member. These days, he hosts a podcast called M*A*S*H Matters, where he discusses M*A*S*H and the film and TV industry alongside his co-host Ryan Patrick.
Age: 79 years
Odessa Cleveland appeared on M*A*S*H from 1972-1975 as Ginger Bayliss, one of the most frequently featured nurses over the first few seasons. She also guest-starred on one episode of the M*A*S*H spin-off series Trapper John, M.D. in 1986. Cleveland was one of the few Black actors to appear as a recurring character on the show, and she was prominently featured in the season two episode "Dear Dad... Three." In that particular episode, viewers saw Nurse Bayliss forced to treat an out of line, ra...
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- Julie Andrews. The most iconic actress from "The Sound of Music," and the most beloved, Dame Julie Andrews is still out there making movies. Although her role as the singing nun-turned-nanny-turned-mother Maria and her role as "Mary Poppins" are her most famous, Andrews would go on to star in films directed by accomplished filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Garry Marshall, and Blake Edwards, who she would be married to for just over 40 years until his death.
- Nicholas Hammond. Before playing the eldest von Trapp brother, Friedrich, in "The Sound of Music," Nicholas Hammond's only other feature film credit was 1963's "Lord of the Flies."
- Duane Chase. Outside of "The Sound of Music," in which he played Kurt, the youngest of the von Trapp boys, Duane Chase only appeared in two other productions as an actor before quitting the game entirely.
- Angela Cartwright. Angela Cartwright may have played the young Brigitta von Trapp in the original "Sound of Music" feature, but that's not the role she's most famous for.
Oct 11, 2023 · Poltergeist was released over 40 years ago but still holds its own in the horror genre. Here's a look at the movie's cast and where they are today. Craig T. Nelson as Steven Freeling
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- John Travolta (Danny Zuko) Before he donned Danny Zuko's leather jacket, John Travolta was already a bona fide star thanks to his roles as Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter, Billy Nolan in Carrie (1976), and Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) — for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.
- Olivia Newton-John (Sandy Olsson) Already a Grammy-winning recording artist and country music star when she was cast as good-girl-gone-bad Sandy, Olivia Newton-John's career rose to greater heights after the movie became the biggest box office hit of 1978.
- Stockard Channing (Betty Rizzo) By the time she was cast as high school bad girl Rizzo, Stockard Channing had already amassed an impressive list of stage and screen credits, including a starring turn opposite Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune (1975).
- Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) Kenickie, the T-Birds second-in-command, was brought to the screen by Jeff Conaway. Like his costar John Travolta, Conaway appeared in the original cast of Grease on Broadway, serving as an understudy for several of the roles, eventually taking over the part of Danny Zuko.
Dec 23, 2023 · With some of the most memorable musical numbers of all time The Sound of Music is a classic movie that just keeps on giving, but where are its actors now? It's been a whopping 56 years since Maria and the von Trapp family burst onto cinema screens in The Sound of Music.
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Dec 19, 2023 · Many of the actors who played the von Trapp children went on to pursue other careers, but some continued acting. Here's what the cast of "The Sound of Music" is up to now.
