Dan Rowan
Dan Rowan was born in Beggs, Oklahoma, United States on July 22nd, 1922 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 65, Dan Rowan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Daniel Hale "Dan" Rowan (July 22, 1922 – September 22, 1987) was an American comedian.
He appeared in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, wherein he appeared straight man to Dick Martin and received the Emmy for Outstanding Variety or Musical Series in 1969.
Personal life
Rowan married Margaret J. Mathis, the 1945 Miss America first-runner-up. Thomas Patrick, Mary Ann, and Christie Esther were three children together. He and Mathis were divorced later this year. Rowan married Australian model Adriana Van Ballegooyen in 1963. They divorced eight years ago. In 1974, he married actress and TV spokeswoman Joanna Young, to whom he remained married until his death.
Early life and career
Rowan was born on July 22, 1922, on a carnival train outside the tiny town of Beggs, Oklahoma, as Daniel Hale David. Oscar and Nellie David, who performed a singing and dancing act with the carnival, toured with his parents.
He was orphaned at the age of 11, spent four years at McClelland Home in Pueblo, Colorado, and then was adopted by a foster family at the age of 16 and enrolled in Central High School. After graduating from high school in 1940, he hopped over to Los Angeles and landed a job in He soon bonded with studio manager Buddy DeSylva. He became Paramount's youngest staff writer a year later.
Rowan served as a fighter pilot in the 8th Fighter Squadron, the 49th Fighter Group United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He flew a Curtiss P-40N Warhawk, AAF Ser. No. 42-1049, who is currently registered under civilian number N537BR, shot down two Japanese planes before being downed and seriously wounded in another P-40 over New Guinea. The Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart were among his military awards.
Rowan returned to California after being fired from service with Dick Martin and began a comedy nightclub act. Martin was originally both the straight man and Rowan the comedic but it didn't work out of nowhere: Rowan explained that Martin could never recall lines if they weren't amusing. They changed careers and found stable employment in nightclubs. Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall's crew was also friendly with Rowan and Martin, so much that if Noonan and/or Marshall were unable to attend a nightclub appearance, they'd send Rowan and Martin in their place; Noonan and Martin would often write things for Rowan and Martin to use.
Rowan and Martin made their film debut in the offbeat western comedy Once Upon a Horse, written and directed by Hal Kanter in 1958. The team was regarded as promising, but no further offers for films were forthcoming. The comics made their way back to nightclubs and television. Rowan was a leading candidate to host The Hollywood Squares. However, former Rowan mentor Peter Marshall had since been dissatisfied with Rowan's service and took the job solely to discourage Rowan from receiving it, a grudge based on Noonan's death and Marshall felt that Rowan had not demonstrated sympathy for Noonan's struggle (Noonan died in 1968).
Rowan and Martin produced a free-wheeling television comedy revue that aired in 1967. The Rowan and Martin show, now called Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, became a national phenomenon, running through 1973.
Rowan appeared on The Love Boat twice before, first in a two-part 1977 episode starring Alan Danver, husband of Barbara Danver, played by Juliet Mills. In the October 30, 1982 segment "Command Performance," Matt Heller, a father who was estranged for 20 years from his ex-wife Jenny Heller, appeared by Marion Ross, and his daughter, Beth Heller, was played by Eve Plumb.