ACTOR, FATHER, FRIEND, ICON; YOUNG LAID TO REST.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Actor Robert Young Robert Young or Bob Young may refer to several different people:
Best known for his roles as perfect dad Jim Anderson Jim Anderson can refer to:
``I wonder how many people wish they had a father like the one on `Father Knows Best,' '' said the Rev. Jim Obermeyer, who led the service at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn in Glendale. ``We've lost much of the innocence of that era when `Father Knows Best' aired,'' said Obermeyer of the Christ the King Church in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . ``America needs those values now.'' From 1954 through 1960, Young's Jim Anderson dispensed fatherly fa·ther·ly adj. 1. Of, like, or appropriate to a father: fatherly love. 2. Showing the affection of a father. adv. In a manner befitting a father. advice to his three children, Princess, Bud and Kitten, all of whom faced a different moral dilemma for their father to solve each week. Later, from 1969 through 1976, he became a role model for doctors across America when he took on the part of ``Marcus Welby, M.D.'' Instead of helping Princess cope with prom stress, this time around he offered comfort to the sick and dying. At the service Monday, his daughter Carol Proffitt remembered her father as her own ``Papa,'' of getting her first pony as a gift and of spying on his Saturday night poker games with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban musician, actor, comedian and television producer. Early life Desi Arnaz was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second largest city, to a wealthy family. . Besides Proffitt, Young is survived by three other daughters. Young's wife, Betty, died in 1991. Jane Wyatt, who played Young's wife, Margaret, on ``Father Knows Best,'' said her co-star co·star also co-star n. A starring actor or actress given equal status with another or others in a play or film. tr. & intr.v. co·starred, co·star·ring, co·stars To act or present as a costar. was a ``wonderful actor.'' Their TV marriage was a happy one. ``We worked together six years,'' Wyatt said as she left the memorial service. ``In all those six years we never had a cross word with each other.'' Billy Gray, the actor who played Bud on ``Father Knows Best'' also attended the service. Gray, now 60, said on TV Young counseled his children each week on the show but in real-life he ``wasn't into giving advice.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Pallbearers carry actor Robert Young's casket Monday after services at Forest Lawn in Glendale. (2) Television patriarch Robert Young's daughters, from left, Carol Proffitt, Betty Lou Betty Lou is a Muppet from the show Sesame Street. She has blonde braided hair. She is friendly and has many dolls of many ethnicities but she has one favorite which she carries everywhere. Gleason, Barbara Beebe and Kathy Young greet well-wishers at their father's funeral Monday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. (3) ``Father Knows Best'' co-stars Billy Gray, left, and Jane Wyatt, center, leave their colleague Robert Young's funeral Monday. Phil McCarten/Daily News |
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