Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about PERNELL ROBERTS!
Pernell Roberts Ghost Rides In Sky: The death of Pernell Roberts yesterday is something akin to when the last Beatle dies – an end of an era. Anybody over age 40 or so will never forget Bonanza. The long-running TV western brought the Cartwright clan into American living rooms from 1959 to 1973 before going into perpetual rerun status that continues…
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: he played the horn, acted in school and church plays, and sang in local USO shows . he attended, but did not graduate from, Georgia Tech. During his high-school years, Pernell played the he played tuba and horn in the marine corps band . he later attended the university of maryland . in 1949, he made his professional stage debut . he performed in Steinbeck’s Burning Bright, The Adding Machine, The Firebrand, The Deletable Judge, The Taming of the Shrew (“Petruchio”) Roberts performed with the Port Players, Roberts won a Drama Desk Award in 1955 for his performance in an off-Broadway rendition of Macbeth . he performed in Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Dr. Faustus, and he guest-starred as Captain Jacques Chavez on the NBC adventure series Northwest Passage (1958) he appeared with fellow guest star Fay Spain in the 1958 episode “Pick Up the Gun” of Tombstone Territory in 1959, he co-starred in the film Ride Lonesome . he was also cast in Bonanza. “transition to a television series” was a difficult one for actor Adam Roberts . he left “bonanza” after the 1964–65 season, criticizing the show’s “simple-minded content in 1965, he told a reporter he felt “an aristocrat” in his field of endeavor . he was “too smart not to recognize its weaknesses,” he complained to the Associated Press he objected to how Bonanza portrayed the relationship between the “father” and adult “sons” he described it as adolescent, lacking in “truth” and lacking “reality . “wherever I turn there’s the father image,” he said in a newspaper interview . he left after disagreements with writers and producers over scripts, characterization . after leaving the series, his character was eliminated Pernell Roberts’ last episode was “Dead and Gone”, air date April 4, 1965 . he appeared in the next two that aired which were filmed prior to the series . in television interviews, Robert “i must confess..I was too hard on him,” he says . he regrets not having insisted on a “marriage for Adam” and having Roberts continue as a semiregular During Roberts’ Bonanza years, he recorded Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies . the album is released by RCA Victor and arranged by Dick Rosmini . Roberts also sings “Early in 1967, Roberts starred in the lavish, but short-lived David Merrick production of Mata Hari . the show had a much-publicized “chaotic” preview performance due to technical problems . problems in 1972, Roberts returned to Broadway and toured with Ingrid Bergman in Captain Brassbound’s Conversion . “instead of bringing someone to clean house closed the production down,” says Merrick . “this actor is a sturdy, not unamusing leading-man type,” he says . he did the night of the iguana while still playing in bonanza in 1963 . Roberts guest- he starred in two cult films, four rode out (1971) and Kashmiri Run (1970) he co-starred or was featured in several TV movies . he received an Emmy nomination in 1981 “the show allowed Roberts to both use his dramatic range and address issues,” wrote The Independent . in 1980, Roberts reunited with his former Bonanza co-star Lorne Greene, for 2 episodes of he guest-starred as Hezekiah Horn in the powerful Young Riders episode, “requiem for a Hero” in the 1980s and 1990s, playing off his Trapper John M.D. person he narrated documentaries, including the national geographic episode . in his last venture into series television, he hosted the anthology series, FBI: the untold stories . he made his last television appearance Chris Roberts was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1989 . he married Judith Anna LeBrecque on October 15, 1962; they divorced in 1971 . at the time of his death from pancreatic cancer, ”Barnaby Jones’’ (TV series) | Barnaby Jones’’ (01/20/1977) – 3 episodes Trapper John, M.D. Demetria Fulton previewed Roberts in Barn