R.I.P. Warren Berlinger

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I remembered that he was in the original 1946 production of Annie Get Your Gun, forgot that he he was Milton Berle's nephew.
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To prove you never know what you'll find if you look into people, I discover that Berlinger also:

Made his Broadway debut at age 9 in Annie Get Your Gun

Appeared in several other Broadway plays that were made into movies (in addition to A Roomful of Roses, which became Teenage Rebel): Take a Giant Step (which we noted a while back, when Johnny Nash died), Anniversary Waltz (filmed as Happy Anniversary), and Come Blow Your Horn, where he played the brother role Tony Bill played on-stage

! Nephew of Milton Berle !
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Pre-Blue Denim he made a strong impression in Teenage Rebel, the film version of the play in which he met his future wife, Betty Lou Keim (1938-2010) who was also featured in the film.
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Another name from the Abby Dalton era.

For some reason, I became attached to him after seeing him in a Disney Sunday night series called Kilroy. I know he co-starred with Patty Duke in a movie called Billie, which I never saw. After that, as far as I was concerned, he drifted to oblivion -- though I now note that I've seen him in half a dozen films over the years without realizing it. (Had IMDB existed in that time, I'd have tracked every step.) And, sometime over the last decade, I saw him in the scandalous-in-its-day Blue Denim, which predated Kilroy.

Because I have friends whose names you wouldn't know, but have maintained working-actor status over several decades, my respect for such people is quite pronounced, regardless of the anonymity in which they strove.
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R.I.P. Warren Berlinger

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Gone at 83. Surely, you've seen him in one or more of his 115 credits from 1955-2016.

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