| Show BORN: April 1922 27 ii Philadelphia PERSONAL Married to Brett Sonera 195674 two som FILMS: Inelode Timetable 1956 (debut) Twelve Angry Men 1957 ftps of Wine and Roses 1962 Yellow Canary 1963 The Detective 1968 Goodtoyi Cokttt&tSf 1969 Two Minute Waning 1976 than 400 roles including these series: Harris Against the World TV: More 196465 The Odd Couple 197075 Quincy 1976-8- 3 Yon Again 1986 BROADWAY: Includes Golden Boy 1952 (debut) Gypsy 1959 The Odd Couple 1977 stay in New York awhile" He knows Davis "Ossie and I did a play with Rod Steiger Stevedore in 1949 I still see Rod He lives in the Malibu colony My Broadway debut was in Golden Boy" He knows New York pretty well— for a South in California Philadelphian who now lives full-ti“Charlie Bronson and I shared a one-roo-m apartment on 1 13thStreet and Broadway” said Klugman “We paid $7 a week There was one bathroom and one kitchen on each floor and all the tenants shared them” For most of us Jack Klugman is Oscar Madison Or maybe Quincy But Klugman is a complete actor who enrolled at Cam&gie Tech in Pittsburgh to study acting on the G I Bill as soon as the Army discharged him after World War II He hustled minor roles and worked in summer stock and after making it on Broadway went West to do movies like Twelve Angry Men Days of Wine and Roses and Goodbye Columbia Still it was TV that made him a star He won an Erhmy in 1963 playing a blacklisted actor on The Defenders Even today the blacklist rubs him raw “I knew all those guys” he said "I worked with them And then Clifford Odets the playwright went down to Washington and gave their names and they were out of a job They couldn’t work Their lives were over” He won two more Emmys as Oscar Madison in 1971 and 1973 and then starting in 1976 portrayed the medical examiner Quincy for seven years He breeds racehorses One of them Jacklin Klugman ran in the Kentucky Derby in 1980 He has 80 horses now— "none of than dust good!” How did he get into Thoroughbred racing long the province of the rich and privileged? "I used to bet my lungs out at the track” Klugman said "I wanted to be one of The 400' and owning racehorses seemed to be the way to do it All I got to be was a member of The Bums 5000'” There are a couple of racetracks in New York Odds are Jack Klugman will be dropping by this summer Q KNOW TONY RANDALL and it always seemed to me be really wm Felix Unger of 7h Odd Cape— prissy and compulsive” I told Jack klugman HWhat about you? Is there any Oscar Madison in your Klugman laughed "You’re wrong about Tbny Hex really a vdy lusty guy But me? I'm worse than Oscar Madison A slob loud a (ports nut a womanizer" This was earlier this year in Malibu and Jade was getting ready to star on Broadway in the Tbny Award-winniplay I'm Not Rappoport opposite Ossie Davis “I’m a little scared he said '‘It has i ben so long since I've been mi Broadway I'd like to ng MUIDI MMZM JIINi 2 IH7 MSI 19 Jack Klugman returned to the New York stage June 9 starring in I’m Not Rappoport He’ll play Broadway for four months "Unless the box office throws me out” he said |
