whow played the father in father knows best?
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Robert Young\n\n\nFATHER KNOWS BEST\n\nU.S. Domestic Comedy \n \nFather Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics view it, at best, as high camp fun, and, at worst, as part of what critic David Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s. \n\nThe brainchild of series star Robert Young, who played insurance salesman Jim Anderson, and producer Eugene B. Rodney, Father Knows Best first debuted as a radio sitcom in 1949. In the audio version the title of the show ended with a question mark, suggesting that father's role as family leader and arbiter was dubious. The partner's production company, Rodney-Young Enterprises, transplanted the series to television in 1954--without the questioning marker--where it ran until 1963, appearing at various times on each of the three networks. \n\nYoung and Rodney, friends since 1935, based the series on experiences each had with wives and children; thus, to them, the show represented "reality." Indeed, careful viewing of each of the series' 203 episodes reveals that the title was actually more figurative than literal. Despite the lack of an actual question mark, father didn't always know best. Jim Anderson could not only lose his temper, but occasionally be wrong. Although wife Margaret Anderson, played by Jane Wyatt, was stuck in the drudgery of domestic servitude, she was nobody's fool, often besting her husband and son, Bud (played by Billy Gray). Daughter Betty Anderson (Elinor Donahue)--known affectionately to her father as Princess--could also take the male Andersons to task, as could the precocious Kathy (Lauren Chapin), the baby of the family. \n\nLike Leave it to Beaver creators Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly, Young and Rodney were candid about their attempts to provide moral lessons throughout the series. While none of the kids experienced the sort of social problems some of the real-life actors faced (Young was an alcoholic and the adult Chapin became a heroin addict), this was more the fault of television's then-myopic need for calm than Young and Rodney's desire to side-step the truth. Indeed, while the series certainly avoided the existence of the "Other America," so, too, did most other American institutions. \n\nYoung won two Emmy Awards for his role, and Wyatt won three. A well-known film actor before his radio and television days, Young went on to later success in the long-running series Marcus Welby, M.D., which may have been more appropriately called "Dr. Knows Best." After Father Knows Best moved into primetime reruns in 1960, Donahue played Sheriff Andy Taylor's love interest Miss Ellie on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1977, NBC brought the Anderson's back in two reunion specials, Father Knows Best: The Father Knows Best Reunion (May 1977) and Father Knows Best: Home for the Holidays (December 1977). \n\n-Michael B. Kassel \n\nCAST Jim Anderson Robert Young Margaret Anderson Jane Wyatt Betty Anderson (Princess) Elinor Donahue James Anderson, Jr. (Bud) Billy Gray Kathy Anderson (Kitten) Laurin Chapin Miss Thomas Sarah Selby Ed Davis (1955-1959) Robert Foulk Myrtle Davis (1955-1959) Vivi Jannis Dotty snow (1954-1957) Yvonne Lime Kippy Watkins (1954-1959) Paul Wallace Claude Messner (1954-1959) Jimmy Bates Doyle Hobbs (1957-1958) Roger Smith Ralph Little (1957-1958) Robert Chapman April Adams (1957-1958) Sue George Joyce Kendall (1958-1959) Jymme (Roberta) Shore PRODUCERS Eugene Rodney, Robert Young PROGRAMMING HISTORY 203 Episodes CBS October 1954-March 1955 Sunday 10:00-10:30 NBC August 1955-September 1958 Wednesday 8:30-9:00 CBS September 1958-September 1960 Monday 8:30-9:00 October 1960-September 1961 Tuesday 8:00-8:30 October 1961-February
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NoI hadn't heard this and I really hope it's is a pack of lies because I think David Jason is a superb actor - amazing in Fools n Horses, Touch of Frost and as Uncle Tom in a 1 off (sadly I can't remeber what the programme was called) on t.v. All the above just proves what a versatile actor he is - hope he is as true to his personal life
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George Best without a doubt
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Joe Simpson (Jessica's daddy)
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Why Kiefer Sutherland? this is a no brainer, Rory Kiefer looks to much like his father and are both fugly... Lucky for Rory he's got the look...
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My dad!!lol.He is the best.
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Tom Hanks in Cast Away
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John Saxon.  Check out the info below.\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768334/
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Best to worst\n\n1.Michael Keaton\n2.Adam West (campy but still great)\n3.Christian Bale\n4.Val Kilmer\nand a distant number 5.George Clooney
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ima have to guess adam sandler in billy madison
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I would have to say the best cartoon father is: Fred Flintstone of tha Flintstones because that was one of my favorite shows whenever I was just a toddler and still is when it comes on.
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It was called 'Diamond Geezer'.  The younger guy was his son.  Brilliant to watch - was on TV about a month ago.
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He has a different father
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he was in a couple movies, the one i recognized him from is Meet The Parents(he's the little brother).  You can look him up on imdb.com
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Ali Landry is who it is.She also played in the movie Who's Your Daddy.
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I remember him from Alias Smith and Jones. He played Hannibal Hayes. I had a major crush on him.
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None. He died of a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head several years ago after a bout with drug addiction.  His son became a successful actor however and is very much alive and well.