A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com."Jack Riley, an alum of The Bob Newhart Show and the voice of Stu Pickles on Rugrats, has died at the age of 80. The actor died from pneumonia in Los Angeles early Friday morning, his representative Paul Doherty tells Entertainment Weekly. Riley is best known for playing Elliot Carlin, one of Bob Newhart’s patients — a role he reprised in 1985 on the NBC medical series St. Elsewhere. He also appeared in several of Mel Brooks’ films, including History of the World: Part I, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not to Be.
- 8/19/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- PEOPLE.com
A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com."
Jack Riley, an alum of The Bob Newhart Show and the voice of Stu Pickles on Rugrats, has died at the age of 80. The actor died from pneumonia in Los Angeles early Friday morning, his representative Paul Doherty tells Entertainment Weekly.
Riley is best known for playing Elliot Carlin, one of Bob Newhart’s patients — a role he reprised in 1985 on the NBC medical series St. Elsewhere. He also appeared in several of Mel Brooks’ films, including History of the World: Part I, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not to Be.
Jack Riley, an alum of The Bob Newhart Show and the voice of Stu Pickles on Rugrats, has died at the age of 80. The actor died from pneumonia in Los Angeles early Friday morning, his representative Paul Doherty tells Entertainment Weekly.
Riley is best known for playing Elliot Carlin, one of Bob Newhart’s patients — a role he reprised in 1985 on the NBC medical series St. Elsewhere. He also appeared in several of Mel Brooks’ films, including History of the World: Part I, High Anxiety, and To Be or Not to Be.
- 8/19/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- People.com - TV Watch
Actor Jack Riley, who specialized in playing neurotic comic characters like psychologist patient Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show of the 1970s, died Friday. He was 81. Riley, who also voiced Stu Pickles on The Rugrats cartoon and appeared in several Mel Brooks comedies, died in a Los Angeles hospital of pneumonia after a long illness, Paul Doherty at Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty told The Hollywood Reporter. Riley appeared in the Brooks-directed films Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981) and Spaceballs (1987) and in two other movies that Brooks produced,
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- 8/19/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Doherty, co-owner of the 45-year-old Cunningham-Escott-Slevin-Doherty Talent Agency and head of its Los Angeles division, expects a lot from performers. Here is his advice for those looking to book voiceover and on-camera work.On voiceover demos"I look at websites, especially if they have links to a voiceover demo. A professional spot may be fine, but that doesn't contradict creating something from scratch in your demo. You can't necessarily rely on work you've booked. You have to answer the question of whether your demo features the most salable ‘you' in its first 15 seconds. After that the listener tunes out. Always put up front the most interesting and bookable snippet of your voice."On on-camera demos"For on-camera demos there are more factors. We need to see diversity on the demos, but again you have to capture the audience's attention quickly, especially within the first scene. Keep in mind for each on-camera commercial.
- 5/14/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Because of the extraordinary competition for voiceover gigs, an actor has to be at the top of one's game, constantly honing one's skills and staying attuned to evolving trends. So says Paul Doherty, co-owner of the 45-year-old Cunningham-Escott-Slevin-Doherty Talent Agency and head of its Los Angeles division. A bicoastal agency specializing in commercials and the voiceover business, the company boasts a rapidly growing theatrical department on both coasts."Casting directors have told me 24,000 actors are pursuing voiceover work just in Southern California," Doherty says. "The business demands lots of choices, and that has increased with the Internet. At the same time, you have the best-trained group of performers in our history. But too few are trained to compete. You need to have the entrepreneur in your blood and be willing to reinvent and expand your abilities."He describes one steadily working actor who studies movies and television programs to gauge shifts.
- 5/11/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
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