[34] He returned in 1958 with a half-hour show featuring Buddy Hackett, which did not catch on. Gleason landed a role as a cast regular in the series The Life of Riley in 1949. [12], Gleason was 19 when his mother died in 1935 of sepsis from a large neck carbuncle that young Jackie had tried to lance. To the moon Alice, to the moon! THE ENDLESS HONEYMOON OF AUDREY MEADOWS - The Washington Post According to The Baltimore Sun, Gleason's biographer William Henry III noted that Gleason seldom spent much time with his family during the holidays. Gleason made his last acting appearance as the character Max Basner in the 1986 film Nothing in Common. In 1969 William Friedkin wanted to cast Gleason as "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971), but because of the poor reception of Gigot and Skidoo, the studio refused to offer Gleason the lead; he wanted it. In 1985, three decades after the "Classic 39" began filming, Gleason revealed he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use (including Honeymooners sketches with Pert Kelton as Alice). Home. He says Gleasons weight would fluctuate from 185 pounds to 285 pounds. "They wanted me to come on as Alice as if Ralph had died," Meadows told Costas. Jackie Gleason's Final Act the Day Before He Died And he was never wrong. Mr. Gleason was released last Thursday from the Imperial Point Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where he had been undergoing treatment for cancer. Gleason had been suffering from multiple health issues for years but endeavored to keep that fact a secret from the public. (which he used in reaction to almost anything). Age at Death: 71. With a photographic memory[26] he read the script once, watched a rehearsal with his co-stars and stand-in, and shot the show later that day. He preceded William Bendix as the irascible blue-collar worker Chester Riley in the NBC situation comedy ''The Life of Riley.''
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