To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Larry Hovis
Hovis in a scene from Hogan's Heroes
Born(1936-02-20)February 20, 1936
DiedSeptember 9, 2003(2003-09-09) (aged 67)
Alma materUniversity of Houston
Occupation(s)Actor, singer
Spouse
Ann Corrigan
(m. 1955; died 1995)
Children4

Larry Hovis (February 20, 1936 – September 9, 2003) was an American singer and actor best known for the 1960s television sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    102 988
    63 939
    21 631
  • Larry Hovis Sgt Andrew Carter Hogan's Heroes Life Story Tribute
  • Here's Why Sgt. Carter (Larry Hovis) Was the Invisible Man on Hogan's Heroes!
  • HOGAN'S HEROES 1965 Cast THEN AND NOW 2023 Who Passed Away After 58 Years?

Transcription

Early life and career

Hovis was born in Wapato, Washington, and moved to Houston, Texas, as a small child. Wapato is within the external boundaries of the Yakama Nation and is not a part of the Yakama Indian Reservation. As a youth, he was a singer, appearing on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Hovis attended the University of Houston. During the mid-1950s, Hovis sang in nightclubs with groups including the Mascots. He wrote songs and signed with Capitol Records, which released one album. His biggest song was "We Could Have Lots of Fun".[3] He was part of the Houston-based Bill Gannon Trio and appears on their 1959 Carlton album, Sweet Singing Swing. After his 1966 screenplay credit in the Universal film "Out of Sight" Hovis began appearing in local theater productions. After some success, he moved to New York City in 1959 and appeared in the 1960 Broadway revue From A to Z, which showcased his singing and comedy talents.[4]

Television

Hovis moved to California in 1963, where he performed comedy and tried to break into television. In 1964, he was discovered by Andy Griffith's manager and was hired to appear on the TV series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., where he played "Pvt. Larry Gotschalk". He also appeared on The Andy Griffith Show.

In 1965, when another actor backed out of the television show Hogan's Heroes, Hovis was cast as "Sgt. Andrew Carter", a POW in a German prison camp who was an expert on explosives. In the pilot episode, Carter was a lieutenant, and was only going to appear in that one episode. For the series, the character became Sgt. Carter, replacing a character played by Leonid Kinskey in the pilot. (Kinskey decided after the pilot that he did not want to stay with a show that had actors pretending to be Nazis.) In the series, Carter was of Sioux ancestry. A few sources say that Hovis was partly of Yakama Indian ancestry, but no documentation supports his membership within the Yakama Nation. Later, in an episode of the comedy Alice, Hovis played an American Indian police detective who arrests a fake American Indian conman.

While Hovis was a regular on Hogan's Heroes, he also did other work in the entertainment industry, including writing the screenplay for the 1966 spy-spoof Out of Sight. He also co-wrote Mitzi Gaynor's 1968 and 1969 television specials, and appeared in and wrote comedy bits for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

After Hogan's Heroes

Even before Hogan's Heroes was canceled in 1971, Hovis had already made appearances on other TV shows.

In the mid-1970s, Hovis made appearances on the game show Match Game and the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In alongside his Hogan's Heroes castmate Richard Dawson, and was a co-creator for Laugh-In as well.[5] Later in the decade, he produced and was a regular panelist on the game show Liar's Club.

From 1979 to 1981, Hovis toured in the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Melvin P. Thorpe.[6] In 1982, Hovis was a writer/producer on the show So You Think You Got Troubles, which was hosted by actor and ventriloquist Jay Johnson. Later in the decade, Hovis teamed up with Gary Bernstein to form Bernstein-Hovis Productions, which produced the game shows Anything for Money, the original version of Lingo and the short-lived Yahtzee, a TV version of the classic dice game, for which Hovis also announced and served as a regular panelist.[citation needed]

Hovis was hired as a co-producer for the hidden-camera television show Totally Hidden Video, but was fired by Fox executives who conducted an investigation of the pilot episode’s segments and found that 3 of 4 taped segments included paid actors and scripted content. The investigation was initially prompted by a lawsuit filed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, alleging that the new series was copying old Candid Camera situational contrivances.[7][8]

Beginning in the 1990s, Hovis taught drama at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas – now called Texas State University-San Marcos.

Death

Hovis died of esophageal cancer in Austin, Texas, on September 9, 2003. He was 67 years old.[2]

Partial filmography

References

Notes

  1. ^ Wilson, Earl (November 27, 1969). "Small Towns Have Produced Many Big Stars". The Milwaukee Sentinel. p. A33. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Staff (September 10, 2003). "Larry Hovis". Variety. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  3. ^ Spring Branch Senior High School Foundation, Class of 1952 obituaries
  4. ^ "Larry Hovis: Broadway" on the Internet Broadway Database
  5. ^ Archives, L. A. Times (September 12, 2003). "Larry Hovis, 67; Played Sgt. Carter on 'Hogan's Heroes'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "Larry Hovis: Touring" on the Internet Broadway Database
  7. ^ Staff (July 13, 1989). "Fox Fires Coproducer Of 'Totally Hidden Video'". Chicago Tribune.
  8. ^ Hodges, Ann (July 13, 1989). "Fox exposes phony segments on its 'Totally Hidden Video'". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2012.

External links


This page was last edited on 26 March 2024, at 04:34
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.