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Bob Denver who played Gilligan on Gilligan's Island dead

#1 Postby Brent » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:58 pm

at age 70... per AP.
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#2 Postby Skywatch_NC » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:05 pm

:cry: Prayers and thoughts with Bob's family and friends.

Seems like most of the cast of Gilligan's Island are now gone. :(

Think only Tina Louise (Ginger), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) and Russell Johnson (Professor) are around now.

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#3 Postby Skywatch_NC » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:10 pm

Bob Denver of 'Gilligan' Fame Dies at 70

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

LOS ANGELES — Bob Denver (search), whose portrayal of goofy first mate Gilligan on the 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island," made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died, his agent confirmed Tuesday. He was 70.

Denver died Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, told The Associated Press. Denver's death was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight."

Denver had also undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year.

Denver's wife, Dreama, and his children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with him when he died.

"Bob is the finest human being I have ever known," Dreama Denver said in a statement released by Eisenstadt. "He was my everything and I will love him forever."

Denver's signature role was "Gilligan," the inept first mate of the tour boat the Minnow, whose bumbling got a group of tourists marooned on an uncharted desert island for three seasons in the 1960s and several movies for decades afterward.

But when he took the role in 1964 he was already known to TV audiences for another iconic character, that of Maynard G. Krebs, the bearded beatnik friend of Dwayne Hickman's Dobie in the "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," which aired from 1959 to 1963.
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#4 Postby CajunMama » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:20 pm

What a funny guy he was. He's now with his Skipper in the sky.
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#5 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:14 pm

R.I.P. Bob Denver.
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#6 Postby streetsoldier » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:01 pm

Finally, Gilligan's "three-hour tour" is over...and now he's aboard the S.S. Eternity, where another Captain is steering the ship.

Be at peace, Bob. :larrow:
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#7 Postby azsnowman » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:32 pm

"GILLIGAN!".......I can still here the Skipper yellin' his name :cry: RIP "Lil Buddie!"

Dennis :cry:
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#8 Postby breeze » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:04 pm

My Mom told me about that, this evening!

R.I.P., indeed!
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