EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR., R.I.P.

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07 May 2014, 12:43 pm

EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR., R.I.P.

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Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. passed away today of natural causes. He was 95.

Zimbalist came from a musical family. His father, Efrem Zimbalist, was a renowned violinist while his mother Alma Gluck was an opera singer. The younger Zimbalist would find his success on the small screen and would be a fixture on American television from the late 1950s thru the mid 1970s. He raised eyebrows for his portrayal of Dandy Jim Buckley on several episodes Maverick starring James Garner. Soon Zimbalist was offered a TV show of his own — 77 Sunset Strip, which aired on ABC between 1958 and 1964. But Zimbalist is probably best known for playing Inspector Lewis Erskine on The F.B.I., which aired between 1965 and 1974 also on ABC and was produced by Quinn Martin. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a consultant on the series.

How many of us remember watching this back in the 1960s at the height of The Cold War.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crCZtW7u-NE[/youtube]

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07 May 2014, 3:58 pm

Can Gene Hackman ever have been that young?

I don't believe it!

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07 May 2014, 5:14 pm

it's been decades since I've seen and heard that.

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07 May 2014, 8:11 pm

Loved that show! Back when I believed the FBI were the good guys. Well not that they're all bad, but I don't have hero worship for the organization any more. But then I'm not 10 any more either.

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07 May 2014, 8:12 pm

there are some outright thugs in that organization.

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07 May 2014, 8:13 pm

True, but I like to believe most of them are trying to do the right thing.

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07 May 2014, 8:19 pm

you're probably right.

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07 May 2014, 8:22 pm

I could be wrong, but that's scarier to think about.

LIke I felt like they were trying to do the right thing in Waco, but blew it big time - but then that other guy, what was his name, they just went and killed half his family for no reason? But that was all a long time ago, nothing too big besides wild partying has gone on like that recently.

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07 May 2014, 8:24 pm

what is boils down to, is that the sociopaths who have been part of humanity from the start, are slowly out-reproducing and/or their genes are accumulating to a critical mass which will put the kibosh on mankind before long.

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07 May 2014, 9:06 pm

I remember that show from when I was a lad. The FBI had respectability, they had sophistication.
The truth was that J. Edgar had some very strange secrets to hide, and the TV show was all positive PR.

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07 May 2014, 11:18 pm

I watched the show when I was a kid. It was fun.

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08 May 2014, 12:54 am

I grew up watching reruns of The FBI, and I still have fond memories of it. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. will be missed.

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09 May 2014, 12:17 pm

auntblabby wrote:

there are some outright thugs in that organization.

J. Edgar was one of them.

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09 May 2014, 2:33 pm

ruveyn wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

there are some outright thugs in that organization.

J. Edgar was one of them.

ruveyn

Very true, and he was a hypocrite. He went out of his way to harass homosexuals, even though he and his number two man, Clyde Tolson, had been lovers for years.

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09 May 2014, 2:48 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

there are some outright thugs in that organization.

J. Edgar was one of them.

ruveyn

Very true, and he was a hypocrite. He went out of his way to harass homosexuals, even though he and his number two man, Clyde Tolson, had been lovers for years.

he was also intimidated by the mob.

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09 May 2014, 2:53 pm

auntblabby wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

there are some outright thugs in that organization.

J. Edgar was one of them.

ruveyn

Very true, and he was a hypocrite. He went out of his way to harass homosexuals, even though he and his number two man, Clyde Tolson, had been lovers for years.

he was also intimidated by the mob.

There were always rumors that they had embarrassing photos of Hoover and another man, and they had threatened to use them if Hoover went after them.

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