Micki Varro, an actress and jazz singer with credits including The Champ, Hart to Hart and The New Howdy Doody Show, has died. She was 75.
Varro died Jan. 16 of cardiac arrest in Palm Court, Florida, after a flulike illness, her daughter, Heidi Varro Dinneen, announced.
A bubbly redhead with big blue eyes, Varro was a meteorologist and anchor in the 1970s on WPLG-TV, the ABC affiliate in Miami, and later appeared in more than 200 national TV commercials.
She starred on stages in New York, Los Angeles and Florida in productions of Voices, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Barefoot in...
Varro died Jan. 16 of cardiac arrest in Palm Court, Florida, after a flulike illness, her daughter, Heidi Varro Dinneen, announced.
A bubbly redhead with big blue eyes, Varro was a meteorologist and anchor in the 1970s on WPLG-TV, the ABC affiliate in Miami, and later appeared in more than 200 national TV commercials.
She starred on stages in New York, Los Angeles and Florida in productions of Voices, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Barefoot in...
- 1/24/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Television producer Ernest 'E.' Roger Muir has died of a stroke. He was 89.
He passed away on Thursday near his home in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Muir helped create and was executive producer of popular 1950s series The Howdy Doody Show - a pioneering children's TV programme starring Howdy, a freckle-faced puppet.
After its 13-year run, Muir served as co-producer of the show's syndicated version, The New Howdy Doody Show, in 1976 and 1977.
He also produced several other successful series, including Concentration, The Newlywed Game and Pay Cards through his own production company with co-producer Nick Nicholson.
Muir is survived by his second wife, Barbara Horn-Muir, five grandchildren and one great-grandson.
He passed away on Thursday near his home in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Muir helped create and was executive producer of popular 1950s series The Howdy Doody Show - a pioneering children's TV programme starring Howdy, a freckle-faced puppet.
After its 13-year run, Muir served as co-producer of the show's syndicated version, The New Howdy Doody Show, in 1976 and 1977.
He also produced several other successful series, including Concentration, The Newlywed Game and Pay Cards through his own production company with co-producer Nick Nicholson.
Muir is survived by his second wife, Barbara Horn-Muir, five grandchildren and one great-grandson.
- 10/28/2008
- WENN
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