The only recurring actors are still alive from golden girls

If you are making a list of the most timeless situation comedies ever produced, “The Golden Girls” has to be in or close to the top. Yes, it is very 1980 with its fashions and decoration of Miami, but its themes and their sense of humor have aged better than most of the series of their time. At any time, you can get on Hulu, click on a random episode and know that you’ll laugh silly while looking at Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), Rose Nylund (Betty White) and Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty ) Obtain some type of jam and, ultimately, the importance and power of friendship are remembered.

The writing in “The Golden Girls” was always acute (the primetime Emmy won by the exceptional comedy series twice), but the secret of his seven years of sustained success (he qualified for the Nielsen Ratings Top Ten to all except for all but His last season) was undoubtedly his cast. Arthur, McClanahan, White and Getty were perfectly adjusted from day one, and each actor had a great opportunity to enter the center of attention several times for the season, so the four artists won Emmys before the series ended in 1992.

Since “The Golden Girls” has been out of the air for 33 years, should not surprise us that many of the fabulous actors who appeared in the program are no longer with us. This includes its excellent recurring members of the cast, which added an indelible color to the mixture of Zaniness and sincere feeling of the program. However, there are still some family faces in the world doing their own (either acting or something else). Peruso the talent list of “The Golden Girls”.

Unfortunately, none of the “golden girls” is still with us today. Estelle Getty, who played Dorothy’s mother, Sophia (and was actually a year younger than Bea Arthur), died in 2008 at the age of 84. We lost Arthur the next in 2009 at the age of 89, while McClanahan, the youngest of the four for 11 years, approved in 2010 at the age of 76.

White (which initially auditioned by Blanche) experienced a professional resurgence in 2010 when Facebook users successfully pressed for her to organize “Saturday Night Live” at 88 years. Suddenly, White had a great demand. He starred in the TV Land comedy “Hot in Cleveland” along with the veterans of Valerie Bertinelli comedy, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick for six seasons, and was the subject of a NBC transmission gala on the occasion of his 90 birthday. During this time, White continued his defense on behalf of animal welfare and returned to “Saturday Night Live” as a guest for his 40th anniversary celebration in 2015. He was so surprisingly active in his 90s to 99, just 18 days after his 100th birthday.

In the strange tradition of network comedies, Dorothy Zbornak’s daughter Kate Griffiths was played by two different actors during the seven seasons of the series. When the character first appeared as a future girlfriend in the second episode of the series “Guess who is reaching the wedding”, was portrayed by Lisa Jane Persky. It was unusually early in a series of a series to obtain a large wedding episode, but, again, the set of four plants was so immediately perfect that it felt as if we had been watching them for years.

Perskey is quite good in the 1985 episode, and could have returned to the program if he had not had a great demand for support roles at that time. It is very possible that you remember her from the classics as of the 80s as “The Segur Thing”, “The Big Easy” and “When Harry met Sally …” She was the favorite of directors Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Reiner Reiner And Jim McBride at that time, and worked constantly during the 1990s in television programs as successful as “Murphy Brown”, “Quantum Leap” and “The X-Files”. In the 2000s, he avoided acting again to journalism, the profession where he had begun in the 1970s as a founding member of Punk New York Rocker magazine. It is written for publications such as Weekly, Fortean Times and Bomb, and founded the “Review of Los Angeles Books” in 2010. It is also a respected photographer and, without a doubt, is familiar as a guest to the listeners of Tom Schalarple. ” Best show “.

When Kate Griffiths’s character returned to the episode of season 2 “Yerno Dearest,” was portrayed by Deena Freeman. Although only one year after her marriage, Kate has left her husband after she cheated her; When she reconciles with him, Dorothy is not too happy. It is not clear if Perskey was not available or if the producers simply wanted to go in a different direction with Kate. If that was the case, it is revealing that they never brought the character back.

Like Perskey, Freeman was an employed work actor at the time of his appearance. He had played a recurring character in “Too Close for Comfort” and had also fallen into successes such as “Newhart” and “Crazy Like A Fox”. After his unique performance in “The Golden Girls”, Freeman continued to reserve work in movies and television, and video games as well. Freeman has been a particular favorite of Pixar, who has chosen it in games such as “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command”, “Monsters, Inc.: The Video Game” and “The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer”. His most recent live action appearance was in the Apple+ “Little America” ​​Drama series in 2022.

In the episode of season 4 of “The Golden Girls” entitled “Scarad Strain”, Blanche’s brother, Clayton, comes to visit after divorcing. While he tells Rose with confidence that he is gay, he does not feel comfortable opening to his sister. This leads to a series of misunderstandings (more fun than Clayton has slept with Rose), which, for an episode of 1988 Network Television, is surprisingly skilled (and quite fun) in his representation of a gay man locked up.

Markham returned to the episode of season 6 “sister of the bride”, but that was all for Clayton, who returned to his immensely successful career of being an actor of officers’ characters, which had been since he had made his television debut in An episode of 1966 of “mission: impossible”. Before playing Clayton, you could name a show of the 70s and it is very possible that Markham appeared in him. He launched for a successful series as “Hogan’s Heroes”, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Hawaii Five-O”, and got small roles in large ticket films such as “Midway” and “Airport ’77”. After “The Golden Girls”, Markham has been in a series as diverse as “Melrose Place”, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Leverage.” He has also stayed in the world of cinema and is ready to star in the next science fiction film “Space Samurai: Oasis”.

While Dorothy loved her two children, they certainly made it hard with her every time her activities were considered worthy of episodes. A fighter musician, Dorothy’s son, Michael Zbornak, made three appearances and was played by Scott Jacoby every time. Because of his last appearance, he separated from his wife and used the patience of Dorothy and his ex -husband Stan. We never discovered what became Michael after that, but there were not many reasons to wait for his life to straighten.

The Jacoby show race was a great contrast to Michael’s. He was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 11 for his performance in the Walter Marks musical “Golden Rainbow”, and he quickly went to films where he caused a memorably spooky impression on the 1974 ABC TV Tor “(One (one (one (one (one of the best horror movies of Rob Hunter of /film that you have never seen). Jacoby also turned an excellent performance since Peter are in front of Melissa Gilbert in the movie surrender NBC television of “The Diary of Anne Frank”, but his career began to lose steam at the time of his appearances in “The Golden Girls”. OF DARKNESS: To die for II “, stopped acting and, apart from directing the 2001 documentary” Rage: 20 years of the west coast of Punk Rock, “it seems to have moved from the entertainment industry completely.

Lynnie Greene hooked the rough task of portraying a young Dorothy Zbornak in four episodes of “The Golden Girls” flashback, and is a testimony of her talent to say that she absolutely covers the task (while acting in front of a Getty not aged). The biggest surprise here is that his work was never considered in decent star schedule, because, as fans of the series will tell you, each of his appearances was special.

Greene’s career was interestingly brief. His greatest success on television was probably to get a regular role of the series in the brief comedy of the 1970s “On Our Own” (which also presented Bess Armstrong and Dixie Carter), but won the critical acclamation for his work in his work in The scenario of New York City as Emma Goldman in the original production outside of Broadway of the brilliant “murderers” musicals of Stephen Sondheim; He also obtained a drama desktop prize for an outstanding outstanding actress in a musical for his turn in the reactivation directed by Susan Stroman, Susan Stroman, of “Flora The Red Menace” directed by Susan Stroman by John Kander and Fred EBB. After “The Golden Girls”, he realized writing and producing, and obtained a WGA prize nomination as a member of the writing staff for “Masters of Sex”.