At one time jokingly self-billed as “The World’s Slowest-rising Comedian,” Ronnie Schell is rising no more. The actor/comedian passed away Friday in Los Angeles. He was 94. A native of northern California, Schell played semi-pro baseball and then served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He first caught the showbiz bug at iconic Bay-area
With NHL playoffs just a week away it is time to check in with one of the games biggest stars. I’m talking about Peter Puck, first voiced nearly 50 years ago by actor Ronnie Schell. Schell was at Hanna Barbera studios working on Wait Till Your Father Gets Home with Tom Bosley when he was approached to do
How lucky am I to have a conversation with Bill Persky, the Emmy-winnng writer-producer of, among many other things TV-related, The Dick Van Dyke Show. The spry 89-year-old New Yorker is the latest guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. (Listen now at the link above.) He’s pretty sure that he is the last remaining writer from
Director of programming Stuart Hands and the good folks at the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation have once again done me the honour of asking me to moderate one of their Q&A panels. That happens tonight, Wednesday, June 9 at 7 p.m. as the TJFF pays homage to the late, great Carl Reiner. To join the