Jack Klugman

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Jack Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012) was an American stage, film, and television actor.He began his career in 1950, and started television and film work with roles in 12 Angry Men (1957) and Cry Terror! (1958).

During the 1960s, he guest-starred on numerous television series.

Klugman won his first Primetime Emmy Award for his guest-starring role on The Defenders, in 1964.

He also made a total of four appearances on The Twilight Zone from 1960 to 1963.

In 1965, Klugman replaced Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison in the Broadway play, The Odd Couple.

Five years later, he reprised that role in the television adaptation of The Odd Couple, opposite Tony Randall.

The series aired from 1970 to 1975.

Klugman won his second and third Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the series.

From 1976 to 1983, he starred in the title role in Quincy, M.E. for which he earned four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Early life

Klugman was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of six children born to Rose, a hat maker, and Max Klugman, a house painter. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. Klugman served in the United States Army during World War II. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. While there, his drama teacher told him, "Young man, you are not suited to be an actor. You are suited to be a truck driver." After the war, he pursued acting roles in New York City while sharing an apartment with friend, and fellow ex-GI turned actor Charles Bronson.

Personal life

Klugman married actress Brett Somers in 1953. The couple had two children, Adam (who had a cameo as Oscar Madison as a child in a flashback on The Odd Couple) and David. He had a stepdaughter, Leslie Klein, from Somers's first marriage. (Klein was married to Jim Fyfe, an actor and theater director.) The couple separated in 1974 and divorced in August 1977; they did not make their divorce public. In 2007, Somers died from cancer at age 83. Because Klugman did not remarry until after Somers died (nor did Somers ever remarry), it was erroneously reported that the two had remained married but separated for the rest of Somers's life.

Klugman's 18-year relationship with actress Barbara Neugass ended in 1992 and led to a palimony suit that Neugass ultimately lost.

Klugman began living with Peggy Crosby in 1988. They married in February 2008, shortly after Somers's death.

Klugman was an avid Thoroughbred racing fan. He owned Jaklin Klugman, who finished third in the 1980 Kentucky Derby behind the great filly Genuine Risk and Grade 1 stakes winner Akinemod. Klugman said Jaklin Klugman's success was the biggest thrill of his life. His farm where he kept up to 100 horses was called El Rancho De Jaklin named after his horse.

In the 1980s, Klugman licensed his name for use by a popcorn franchise named "Jack's Corn Crib".

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Career

During the 1950s and 1960s, Klugman appeared in numerous stage, television, and film productions. He appeared in Mr. Roberts' small role in Boston's Colonial Theatre in 1950. He made his television debut in an Actors Studio episode later this year. Frank Bonaparte made his Broadway debut in Golden Boy in March 1952.

He appeared Jim Hanson on The Greatest Gift in 1954. In the episode "The Petrified Forest" with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda, he appeared on the live television broadcast of Producers' Showcase. Later, Klugman said that it was the greatest thrill of his career. He went on to appear in many classic films, including as juror number five in 12 Angry Men (1957), of which he was the last living cast member. In 1959, he returned to Broadway in the original production of Gypsy: A Musical Fable. In 1960, Klugman was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor (Musical) for his role in the show, but he lost to Tom Bosley in Fiorello! He remained with Gypsy until it was closed in March 1961.

Klugman appeared in four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1960), "A Game of Pool" (1961), "In Praise of Pip" (1963), and "In Praise of Pip" (1963), tying Burgess Meredith for the most appearances in a starring role on the series from 1960 to 1963. In 1964, he received his first Primetime Emmy Award for his guest-starring role on The Defenders. Klugman appeared in the situation comedy Harris Against the World the same year. The series was part of an experimental block of sitcoms that aired on NBC entitled 90 Bristol Court. Harris Against the World, along with other sitcoms on the block, were cancelled the following year due to low ratings.

Klugman continued to appear on television throughout the decade, including appearances on The F.B., Ben Casey, The Name of the Game, The Fugitive, and Insight. From October 1962 to May 1963, he appeared on Broadway in Tchin-Tchin. Klugman appeared in two episodes of The Untouchables (1961) and "An Eye for an Eye" (1963).

In 1965, Klugman replaced Walter Matthau in the lead role in Oscar Madison's original Broadway production of The Odd Couple. When the play was originally produced as a television series, he reprised it. ABC's television networks were on ABC from 1970 to 1975. Klugman received two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series during his five-year, 114-episode run. Randall, Klugman and Odd Couple co-star Randall, produced an album titled The Odd Couple Sings for London Records in 1973. Roland Shaw and the London Festival Orchestra and Chorus provided the music and additional vocals.

Since the cancellation of The Odd Couple in 1975, Klugman returned to television in 1976 in Quincy, M.E., first broadcast as part of the NBC Mystery Movie umbrella collection before becoming a weekly show. Dr. Quincy, a forensic pathologist who worked for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office and prosecuted murders, was portrayed by Klugman. He was shortlisted for four Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series as well as four episodes. Quincy's total of 148 episodes aired over eight seasons, ending in 1983. Klugman appeared in Lyndon, a one-man performance based on Prideaux' script, inspired in part by Merle Miller's taped conversations and directed by George Schaefer in 1984. Klugman appeared in the sitcom You Again! in 1986. John Stamos co-starring John Stamos as Klugman's son. The series remained on NBC for two seasons before being cancelled. During the show's run, Klugman appeared in I'm Not Rappaport on Broadway. In 1988, the show came to an end. In the ensuing year, he appeared in Around the World in 80 Days, a television miniseries.

Klugman's throat cancer (with which he was first diagnosed in 1974) returned in 1989. He suffered from illness for the next four years. With Tony Randall, he reprised acting in a 1993 Broadway revival of Three Men on a Horse. He reunited with Tony Randall in the television film The Odd Couple: Together Again that year. Klugman co-starred in the television film Parallel Lives next year.

He appeared on a limited "celebrity versus regular" version of the British quiz show Going for Gold in 1993, emerging as the series's champion.

He appeared in The Twilight of the Golds and the comedy film Dear God in 1996. With guest appearances on Diagnosis: Murder, he resurrectled his television career. He appeared in "Glitch" episode on The Outer Limits and appeared in an episode of the television series Crossing Jordan. Both the 1997 Broadway revival and The Sunshine Boys' 2007 off-Broadway revival were filmed.

When Do We Eat?, co-starred Klugman in 2005. He published Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship, a book about his long friendship with his co-star Tony Randall that was published in the same year. In 2004, Klugman eulogy at Randall's memorial service. Klugman's Korner, a baseball fan who wore as Oscar Madison, started a Klugman's Korner on MLB.com to write about baseball and Randall.

In 2008, he sued NBC Television for missing money from his program Quincy M.E. The case was brought in a California state court, with Klugman requesting that NBC to show him the original deal. Klugman argued that his production firm, Sweater Productions, should have earned 25% of the show's net income. In August 2010, NBC Universal and Klugman settled the case on undisclosed terms.

In the 2010 horror film Camera Obscura, his last on-screen role was in Camera Obscura. In a stage performance by Twelve Angry Men at the George Street Playhouse that was scheduled to open on March 13, 2012, Klugman was supposed to play Juror #9 originally. However, he was forced to stop working due to sickness.

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