Joe Flynn
In Episodes 63 - The Cat's Meow and 64 - The Bat's Kow Tow, Catwoman was assisted by an evil dance school owner, Benson Belgoodie who assisted the evil cat by running interference with the Dynamic Duo.
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Joe Flynn was born in 1924, Born
November 8, 1924, in
Youngstown, Ohio. He went to Northwestern university and began building his career
in radio and was a ventriloquist.
He served in the Army stateside entertaining the enlisted folks. He decided to
make the move to Hollywood and his first onscreen role was a priest in the Bob
Hope comedy The Seven Little Foys (55). He continued on doing uncredited character
roles until becoming a regular on The George Gobel Show in 1958. He was on the
Joey Bishop show in 1961 but there seemed to be a bit of upstaging by Joe and
Bishop got rid of him.
He went on to his him most famous role as Captain Binghamton on the TV sitcom McHale's Navy which ended its run in 66. He appeared on Batman in 67 then went on to be one of the most prolific Disney actors appearing in more than 9 movies such as Herbie The Love Bug (69), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (70), The 1,000,000 Duck (71), How You See Him, Now You Don't (73) to name just a few. You Baby Boomers also may remember him as King Vitamin, selling that popular kids cereal.
In the early 1970's Joe was a driving force in the Screen Actors Guild to change how actors were paid for residual showings of TV shows, remember Adam and Burt received almost nothing after a few years for the 30 + years of Batman reruns.
Now for a
strange twist, Joe was a regular on the Merv Griffith show and he had a habit of
making comments like, " I have info that would rock Hollywood should it get
out. Shortly after these appearances, Joe was dead. Now should you read IMDB
they list his death as a heart attack or other sources state he had a
heart attack while swimming in his pool. OK- at the time he had a broken leg and
was in a large cast. They found him in on the bottom of the pool held down by
the weight of the cast, I doubt he was going for a dip. The truth was never
known however Merv Griffith made comments later that he didn't buy the story of
Joe's death being "accidental".
Joe's body was found on July 19, 1974, in his Beverly Hills home. He was 50 years old.
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