Jack Riley passed away today at the age of 80 from pneumonia and an infection according to Deadline.
He is best known for playing Mr Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show. Mr Carlin was unlikable; but yet the way Riley played him, you couldn’t help but to love him. The next generation of TV viewers loved him as Uncle Stu Pickles on The Rugrats and All Grown Up. While those are his two biggest roles, he guest starred on some of our favorite shows throughout the decades like Hogan’s Heroes, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Happy Days, Family Ties, One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes, Silver Spoons, Night Court, Family Matters, Friends, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, Seinfeld, That ’70s Show and many more. Riley also can be seen in several of Mel Brooks movies like High Anxiety, History of the World Part 1 and Spaceballs.
Today let’s honor him by watching one of many memorable and enjoyable roles.
Modern Family’s Nolan Gould was seen with a big fat bruised lip, so who did that to his beautiful face? This is where it gets really embarrassing for him, because here’s his story, “Kneed myself in the face while learning a new parkour trick.” Ouch, double ouch.
Watch out for it on the third episode of the ABC sitcom which returns on September 21st to see if they write it in or hide it. Maybe they will write it in as Luke tried the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge and it went terribly wrong. That sounds like something his character would totally do, right?
Sylvester Stallone might play a big man in the movies, but when he is standing next to two basketball players it is a whole different story. Rambo met Detroit Piston’s Boban Marjanović and Andre Drummond and he looks so tiny next to them. Granted they are both over 7′, so most people will look small next to him. But it is still a cute photo.
