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Title: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on January 25, 2010, 09:50:19 pm

I dimly remember him as Adam Cartwright on Bonanza. I knew him much better as Trapper John, M.D.

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: southendmd on January 25, 2010, 10:08:11 pm

(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m23/jadirogers/TVgraphics/PernellRoberts.jpg)

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: southendmd on January 25, 2010, 10:26:15 pm

This is a nice, albeit a bit cheesy, tribute to Pernell, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZkXI7YJnoU[/youtube]

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Ellemeno on January 25, 2010, 10:27:18 pm

Pernell Roberts was my introduction to the fact that people age.  

One night, when I was a teenager, my mom and I were watching TV, and all of a sudden, she wailed, "Pernell Roberts, what happened to you?!"  I said, "Who's Pernell Roberts?"  The spreading, bald guy on the TV.  She remembered him (and lusted a bit, I suspect) looking like that perfect sample that Paul posted.

Now when I see people I haven't seen in several years, every now and then, I say to myself silently, "Pernell Roberts!"  I myself have doen a Pernell Roberts, though I do have hair.

R.I.P.

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Kerry on January 26, 2010, 02:10:36 am

Quote from: southendmd on January 25, 2010, 10:08:11 pm

(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m23/jadirogers/TVgraphics/PernellRoberts.jpg)

I can't bring myself to watch the 80th birthday tribute. This is how I want to remember Pernell Roberts. Thanks for posting the pic, Paul.

I hadn't yet reached my teens when I fell for Adam Cartwright. I loved the way he dressed in black. Soooo cooool! When everyone else had the vapours for Little Joe (Michael Landon), it was Adam who sent my heart racing. He had a wonderful on-screen presence and I loved his voice. I'm off to YouTube now, to conduct a search for Bonanza.

Rest in Peace, Pernell.

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Kerry on January 26, 2010, 02:36:14 am

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/Album%201/adam5.jpg)
Pernell Roberts as
Adam Cartwright in
"Bonanza"

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Katie77 on January 26, 2010, 06:00:50 am

I grew up with Bonanza every Friday night.

RIP Pernell Roberts joining the rest of the family in the big Ponderosa in the heavens.

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Penthesilea on January 26, 2010, 08:34:30 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/a4931e05.jpg)

I also grew up with Bonanza (it aired a some years later in Germany).
Now they're all gone. That's a sad thought.


RIP Pernell Roberts.

Title: Re: Actor Pernell Roberts has died
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on January 26, 2010, 09:39:35 am

Quote from: Kerry on January 26, 2010, 02:10:36 am

I loved his voice.

He did have a wonderful voice. They mentioned on the NBC news segment about his death that he had been a singer, and also had supported and marched for civil rights.