Passing: Carl Ballantine, Slapstick Magician & Castmember on McHale's Navy (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: November 11, 2009
Carl Ballantine, an inveterate quipmeister whose stand-up comedy persona, an incompetent magician known as the Amazing Ballantine or Ballantine the Great, predated and influenced the antic characters of Steve Martin and others, died on Nov. 3 at his home in Hollywood. He was 92.
Over the course of a six-decade career, Mr. Ballantine became familiar to audiences as a comic actor, especially after landing the role of the scheming, profiteering seaman Lester Gruber on the television series “McHale’s Navy” in 1962.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/arts/television/11ballantine.html?ref=obituaries
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: November 11, 2009
Carl Ballantine, an inveterate quipmeister whose stand-up comedy persona, an incompetent magician known as the Amazing Ballantine or Ballantine the Great, predated and influenced the antic characters of Steve Martin and others, died on Nov. 3 at his home in Hollywood. He was 92.
Over the course of a six-decade career, Mr. Ballantine became familiar to audiences as a comic actor, especially after landing the role of the scheming, profiteering seaman Lester Gruber on the television series “McHale’s Navy” in 1962.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/arts/television/11ballantine.html?ref=obituaries
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