Russell Johnson "The Professor": Dead at 89 (1 Viewer)

[streets]

TMZ article

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

In before, 'I thought he died a long time ago'

 

[Limp Ditka]

Thanks posty.

 

[Parrothead]

he was bangin' Mary Ann

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Couldn't he make himself a new heart out of coconuts?

 

[Jobber]

RIP, professor.

 

[NFLJUNKEY]

RIP, Professor. Down to Ginger and Maryann...

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Too bad Hollywood typecasted him as a shipwrecked professor.

 

[elguapo07]

RIP, Professor. Down to Ginger and Maryann...

Now they'll never get off the island without the prof.. Loved this show as a kid. RIP professor.

 

[Politician Spock]

Where's the shtick police? This thread is about someone dying and there is shtick in here.

 

[KingPrawn]

Piece of my childhood died today. He was McGiver before McGiver existed. He could build a transistor radio out of a coconut. Let's see McGiver do that.

 

[jwp]

I also loved the show when I was a kid watching reruns. I'm old enough though to remember seeing the movie they made when it came out where they finally got rescued. They had a different lady playing Ginger. I was bummed about that.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

I preferred McTaker.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The sad thing is that in real life he actually was a phd level physicist, but no one would ever take him seriously after the show ended. Ate at him until his dying day.

 

[jamny]

RIP

I never knew his real name. I thought this thread was about some old basketball player.

 

[boilerdave]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

 

[Clown Car]

I loved the Professor. So cute and smart. RIP

 

[The General]

RIP Professor...

Biggest pimp on Gilligan's Island, certain he was banging Marian and Ginger.

 

[Raider Nation]

Piece of my childhood died today. He was McGiver before McGiver existed. He could build a transistor radio out of a coconut.

Yet he couldn't patch up a few holes in that damn ship.

 

[Mr. Retukes]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

Little known fact: the

had different actors playing The Professor, Mary Ann (then called Bunny) and Ginger.The original Professor later had a bit part in an episode of Seinfeld (scroll to 17:57): http://seinfeld-episodes.com/the-non-fat-yogurt/

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Roy Hinkley

 

[BigSteelThrill]

I had just went to his wiki page yesterday/day-before and he was still still alive. oh man.

RIP

 

[Del Griffith]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

That was when the opening theme song said "...and the rest" instead of naming the Professor and Mary Anne

 

[Tom Servo]

The sad thing is that in real life he actually was a phd level physicist, but no one would ever take him seriously after the show ended. Ate at him until his dying day.

And a WW2 veteran.

 

[Rove!]

He could fix anything...except a hole in a boat

 

[Mjolnirs]

I saw this article yesterday. From the article:

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

That was when the opening theme song said "...and the rest" instead of naming the Professor and Mary Anne

Dawn Wells commented: "Russell was a true gentleman, a good father, a great friend, and 'the rest,'"

The sad thing is that in real life he actually was a phd level physicist, but no one would ever take him seriously after the show ended. Ate at him until his dying day.

And a WW2 veteran.

"He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a B-24 bombardier on missions over the Pacific war zone, breaking his ankles in 1945 when his plane was shot down over the Philippine island of Mindanao. He was discharged as a first lieutenant in November 1945, having earned a Purple Heart and other medals"

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

That was when the opening theme song said "...and the rest" instead of naming the Professor and Mary Anne

Yes, that burned me up too for the longest time. Then I put it behind me and went on with my life.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The sad thing is that in real life he actually was a phd level physicist, but no one would ever take him seriously after the show ended. Ate at him until his dying day.

And a WW2 veteran.

"He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a B-24 bombardier on missions over the Pacific war zone, breaking his ankles in 1945 when his plane was shot down over the Philippine island of Mindanao. He was discharged as a first lieutenant in November 1945, having earned a Purple Heart and other medals"

Also briefly held the world record for shotput.

 

[Raider Nation]

He could fix anything...except a hole in a boat

I've heard that.

 

[rick6668]

The Professor's 11 best inventions

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54580/11-professors-best-inventions-gilligans-island

 

[Bull Dozier]

RIP

I never knew his real name. I thought this thread was about some old basketball player.

I had this exact same thought.

 

[cstu]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

That was when the opening theme song said "...and the rest" instead of naming the Professor and Mary Anne

Yes, that burned me up too for the longest time. Then I put it behind me and went on with my life.

It burned up Gilligan:

The "Gilligan" theme song underwent this one major change thanks to star Bob Denver (Gilligan), who personally went to the studio and asked that Johnson and Wells be added to the theme song's opening credits. When the studio at first refused saying it'd be too expensive to reshoot, Denver insisted, even saying that if Johnson and Wells weren't included, he wanted his name out of the song as well. The studio caved in, and "the Professor and Mary Ann" were shoehorned in at the very end of the theme for Seasons 2 and 3.

 

[jamny]

Gilligan's Island first episode showing on TVLand right now.

That was when the opening theme song said "...and the rest" instead of naming the Professor and Mary Anne

Yes, that burned me up too for the longest time. Then I put it behind me and went on with my life.

It burned up Gilligan:

The "Gilligan" theme song underwent this one major change thanks to star Bob Denver (Gilligan), who personally went to the studio and asked that Johnson and Wells be added to the theme song's opening credits. When the studio at first refused saying it'd be too expensive to reshoot, Denver insisted, even saying that if Johnson and Wells weren't included, he wanted his name out of the song as well. The studio caved in, and "the Professor and Mary Ann" were shoehorned in at the very end of the theme for Seasons 2 and 3.

That Maynard G. Krebs was a good egg