Larry Hagman attends the Channel 5 Dallas Launch Party at Old Billingsgate Market on August 21, 2012 in London, England. Hagman is best known for playing villian J.R. Ewing on “Dallas.” Hagman died on November 23rd at the age of 81. (Ian Gavan, Getty Images)
Larry Hagman’s co-stars on the revamped Dallas have added their tributes to the late actor, who died on Friday.
The veteran star, best known for his portrayal of scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing in the original version of the soap opera, which ran from 1978 to 1991, passed away at a hospital in Texas after suffering complications from his battle with cancer.
His long-serving Dallas co-stars Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal and Ken Kercheval paid tribute to the actor after news of his death emerged – and now several of his co-stars on the revamped show have also spoken out about the tragedy.
‘Dallas’ Star Larry Hagman Dies at 81
Hagman’s new co-stars devasted by his death – FOX23 News – The 10 O’Clock News
Larry Hagman Death: ‘Dallas’ Costars Pay Tribute to the Iconic Actor – Hollywood Reporter
Larry Hagman is best known for playing in Dallas as an evil Texas oil man who was very evil.
May 23 2004, American filmmaker Michael Moore ‘s (search) “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sept. 11 attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. “Fahrenheit 9/11” was the first documentary to win Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or (search) since Jacques Cousteau’s and Louis Malle ‘s “The Silent World” in 1956.
“What have you done? I’m completely overwhelmed by this. Merci,” Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd.
Quentin Tarantino, President of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival which started on May 12 and ran until May 23. The Palme d’Or went to the American film Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.
Disney had pulled out of the P&A (prints and adds) budget, because of the lies Michael is known for, and subsequent law suits.
Michael used that to spin a further conspiracy.
Michael later admitted is was lying and had adjusted much of the documentary to favor his bottom line. (World Council Affairs meeting 2004)
This film did much to divide the United States right against left.
“There were no weapons of mass destruction” was his phrase…
Most do not know that a WMD is either, nuclear, chemical, or germ.
Actually their were WMD’s, how do we know? The US gave them to him.
Yes but would he use them on us? Yes he used them on his own people, that is why his people nick named him Chemical Ali.
So the TRUE question should have been, did he have any left or did he get more? He said he did…
So why did the French go nuts against President Bush?
Because for 30 years they watch re-runs of Dallas and J.R. Ewing, killing and swindling people. And the French hated Larry Hagman’s character.
Deep down, the French, not knowing Bush, assumed all Texans were like J.R. Ewing.
Welcome to the power and persuasion of our Hollywood Media on the rest of the world!
NOTE: The french past time is to become experts on our film and tv programs and act out and live out these characters.. sad but true. Many parts of the world worship our media.
Larry Hagman died of THROAT cancer.
Iran has always been the funding and source for Terrorism and all governments know it.
But you could not declare it publicly during that time without creating more problems.
The best explanation why we were in Afghanistan and Iraq is because Iran has been working on Nuclear weapons and we need a presence on both sides, to put pressure on them to stop, or be in position to take out their nuclear sites.
The passive, say, wait until another 9/11 but let them use a nuke this time to blow Manhattan off the map. Then they will cry, why didn’t you protect us?
Those trying to protect the passive’s way of life, says we should have stayed in Iraq and Afghanistan so we were positioned to deal with a nuclear armed Iran.
Michael more, Larry Hagman and many others did nothing to promote your safety, but they made a lot of money off you and apparently what was coming out of Larry’s throat didn’t bring you or him life.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120671,00.html#ixzz2DG4IatdK
In July 1995, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which led him to quit smoking, and a month later he underwent a liver transplant.
After giving up his vices, Hagman said he did not lose his zest for life.
“It’s the same old Larry Hagman,” he told a reporter. “He’s just a littler sober-er.”
Hagman was born on September 21, 1931, in Weatherford, Texas, and his father was a lawyer who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hagman would later come to portray. He was still a boy when his parents divorced and he went to Los Angeles with Martin, who would become a big name in Hollywood and a Tony winner on Broadway, where she starred in Peter Pan and The Sound of Music.
Hagman eventually landed in New York to pursue acting, making his stage debut there in The Taming of the Shrew. In New York, he married Maj Axelsson in 1954 while they were in a production of South Pacific. The marriage produced two children, Heidi and Preston.
Hagman served in the Air Force, spending five years in Europe as the director of USO shows, and on his return to New York he took a starring role in the daytime soap The Edge of Night. His breakthrough came in 1965 when he landed the I Dream of Jeannie role opposite Barbara Eden.
In his later years, Hagman became an advocate for organ transplants and an anti-smoking campaigner. He also was devoted to solar energy, telling the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar panel system at his Ojai estate, and made a commercial in which he portrayed a J.R. Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime member of the Peace and Freedom Party, a minor leftist organization in California.
Hagman told the Times that after death he wanted his remains to be “spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little of Larry.”