The wonderful documentary Life of Reilly is online and contains his last stage performance.ĬHARLES NELSON REILLY won the 1962 Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) Tony Award for "How To Succeed In Business without Really Trying".ĬHARLES NELSON REILLY earned a 1964 Tony nomination as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in the original "Hello, Dolly!". He was a great talent both on the screen and on the stage and his laughter and unique sense of humor will be missed. The Life of Reilly is a 2006 American film adaptation of actor Charles Nelson Reillys one-man play Save It For the Stage: The Life of Reilly.Written by Reilly and Paul Linke, and directed by Frank L. The sublime Brett Sommers passed away in 2007.Ĭharles Nelson Reilly died in Los Angeles, California. They were as witty and comfortable with each other as ever. There was a reunion of the Match Game cast in 2002 on CBS'Įarly Show including Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers andīetty White. Lidsville, which the star hated, aired one season of originalĮpisodes but turned up in reruns for years thereafter Uncle Croc'sīlock was a huge dud that was swept away in just a few weeks. Lidsville in 1971 and Uncle Croc's Block in 1975. His sense of humor fit when I first became aware of him in the late 70s early 80s and still works in rerun. He was also popular on Saturday mornings with Sid & Marty Krofft's Charles Nelson Reilly is one of the most entertaining, interesting people I ever saw. Casting him as a more traditonal figure makes him and his scenes rather. One very funny moment came when Charles hosted Match Game Cornelius, as written in THE MATCHMAKER and DOLLY, is a comic, eccentric romantic lead.
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Match Game was a huge hit, the top rated daytime TV show in the mid-1970s, people tuned in faithfully to see Gene Rayburn, Brett and Charles. What really made Charles Nelson Reilly famous was his hilarious, cattyĪppearances on the daytime game show Match Game startingĬharles' repartee with fellow contestant Brett Somers was the highlight Nanny and the Professor, and Here's Lucy. He also appeared as guest on a number of classic sitcoms includingĬar 54, Where Are You?, Love American Style, The Doris Day Show, Muir where he played the cowardly, jittery nephew of gruff He worked often in television and was a regular on The Ghost & Johnny Carson where Charles tells stories about his days in the New
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Here is an appearance on the Tonight show with TV and Broadway musical star Charles Nelson Reilly a Tony Award winner for his performance as Bud Frump in the original production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying died. That was torn about his television career. An accomplished actor, Charles Nelson Reilly was a Tony Award winner Guest star on sitcoms, as a panelist on game shows, and on late night Reilly was one of those comics that always seemed to be around, as a A brief overview of Charles Nelson Reilly's TVįor those of us that grew up in the 1970s Charles Nelson
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