Ed Flanders

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Ed Flanders
Flanders in The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Born
Edward Paul Flanders

(1934-12-29)December 29, 1934
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedFebruary 22, 1995(1995-02-22) (aged 60)
Denny, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1967–1995
Spouses
Bennye Kelly
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(m. 1954; div. 1959)​
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(m. 1963; div. 1968)​
Cody Lambert
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(m. 1985; div. 1992)​
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Edward Paul Flanders (December 29, 1934 – February 22, 1995)

Primetime Emmys
and won three times in 1976, 1977, and 1983.

He received a

Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the 1973 production of A Moon for the Misbegotten
.

Early life

Flanders was born in

Patrick Henry High School (where he played hockey) in 1952, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he served as an X-ray technician.[citation needed
]

Early career

After his service with the United States Army ended, Flanders began his acting career on Broadway before moving on to guest parts in television series. From 1967 through 1975, Flanders appeared in more than a dozen American TV shows, including six appearances on Hawaii Five-O (as five different characters). During this time, he was also prolific in TV movies. He married actress Ellen Geer, with whom he had a son, Ian Flanders (born 1966) before they divorced.

In the late 1970s, Flanders moved away from small TV roles to take major credits in both TV and feature films, while continuing his stage career. In 1974, Flanders won a

TV movie adaptation of A Moon for the Misbegotten.[3]

St. Elsewhere

In 1982, he began his role in

Tony Award. The episode gained much publicity as Westphall left the hospital after "mooning" his new boss, Dr. John Gideon (played by Ronny Cox). Flanders continued his working relationship with executive producer Bruce Paltrow in the short-lived 1994 CBS series The Road Home.[4]

Notable roles

In addition to his six-year role as Dr. Donald Westphall, Flanders is noted as the actor who has played President

Harry Truman more times, and in more separate productions, than any other. He portrayed Truman at the end of World War II and during the Korean War in Truman at Potsdam, Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking, and MacArthur. In MacArthur, Flanders had second billing to Gregory Peck's lead as General Douglas MacArthur.[4]

In feature films, Flanders performed major roles in two dark movies based on novels by William Peter Blatty. In the first, The Ninth Configuration (1980), he plays Col. Richard Fell, a self-effacing medic at a secret U.S. Army psychiatric facility who assists Marine psychiatrist Col. Vincent Kane (Stacy Keach). The film was based on Blatty's 1978 novel of the same name, itself a reworking of his earlier, darkly satirical novel Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (1966). In 1990, Flanders played Father Dyer alongside star George C. Scott in Blatty's The Exorcist III based on the novel Legion.

Flanders was in the first season

Trapper
sabotage his effort, Bricker abandons the project and leaves.

Flanders also played nationally known journalist

Salem's Lot as Dr. Bill Norton. He also played news anchor John Woodley in the 1983 made-for-TV suspense drama Special Bulletin
, about a group of environmentalists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in Charleston, South Carolina.

Later life and death

After three divorces, chronic pain from a back injury sustained in an automobile crash in 1989, and a lifelong battle with depression, Flanders died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on February 22, 1995, in Denny, California at the age of 60. No suicide note was found, and his remains were cremated.[5]

Popular culture

Ed Flanders was referenced in "Marge in Chains", the twenty-first episode of the

fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons (1993). When Ned Flanders assures Marge Simpson
"We've all had our brushes with the law," Ned recalls the time a policeman knocked at his door, mistaking him for Ed Flanders. This led to Ned adopting a "Howdy! My name is NED" badge so he would "never have that problem again."

Filmography

Television

  • 1967: Cimarron Strip (episode: "The Roarer") as Arliss Blynn
  • 1969: Daniel Boone (episode: "The Traitor") as Lackland
  • 1969: Hawaii Five-O (episode: "Up Tight") as Professor David Stone
  • 1971: The Name of the Game (episode: "Beware of the Watchdog") as Lazlo Subich
  • 1971: Travis Logan D.A. as Psychiatrist
  • 1971: Bearcats! (episode: "The Hostage") as Ben Tillman
  • 1971: Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (TV movie) as David Bevin
  • 1971: McMillan & Wife (episode: "Husbands, Wives and Killers") as Tom Benton
  • 1971: Mission Impossible (episode: "Blues") as Joe Belker
  • 1972: Mannix (episode: "A Walk in the Shadows") as Tom Farnom
  • 1972: Nichols a.k.a. James Garner as Nichols (episode: "Fight of the Century")
  • 1972: Cade's County (episode: "The Fake") as Ben Crawford
  • 1972:
    Ironside
     (episode: "Five days in the Death of Sgt. Brown: Part 1") as Phil McIver
  • 1972:
    The New Doctors
     (episode: "Five Days in the Death of Sgt Brown: Part II") as Phil McIver
  • 1972: M*A*S*H (episode: "Yankee Doodle Doctor") as Lt Dwayne Bricker
  • 1972: Banyon (episode: "Just Once") as Sergeant Randall
  • 1973:
    Kung Fu
     (episode: "The Salamander") as Alonzo Davis
  • 1973:
    Robert Young, Family Doctor
     (episode: "The Comeback") as Magruder
  • 1974: Barnaby Jones (episode: "Death on Deposit") as "Doc" Fred Tucker
  • 1969–1975: Hawaii Five-O (6 episodes):
    • 1969 "Up Tight" as David Stone
    • 1970 "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu" (2-part episode) as Dr Alexander Kline
    • 1970 "The Guarnerius Caper" as Dmitri Rostov
    • 1972 "While You're at It, Bring in the Moon" as Byers
    • 1974 "One Born Every Minute" as Joe Connors
    • 1975 "And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon" as Bernie Ross
  • 1975: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (episode: "Mary's Father") as Father Terrance Brian
  • 1975: The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Hosea Knowlton
  • 1975: Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Justice Department attorney Ralph Paine
  • 1976:
    Harry S Truman
  • 1979: Backstairs at the White House (episodes 1.1, 1.2 and 1.4) as President Calvin Coolidge
  • 1979:
    Blind Ambition
     (TV mini-series) as Charles Shaffer
  • 1979:
    Salem's Lot
     a.k.a. Blood Thirst as Dr Bill Norton
  • 1982–1988: St. Elsewhere - 120 episodes as Dr. Donald Westphall
  • 1993: Jack's Place (episode: "Who Knew?") as Marcus Toback
  • 1994: The Road Home (pilot episode) as William Babineaux

Films

Awards and honors

Emmy nominations

  • 1979 – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special, for: Backstairs at the White House
  • 1984 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for: St. Elsewhere
  • 1985 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for: St. Elsewhere
  • 1986 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for: St. Elsewhere
  • 1987 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for: St. Elsewhere

Emmy Awards (won)

  • 1976 – Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Special, for: A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • 1977 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special, for: Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
  • 1983 – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for: St. Elsewhere[4]

Theatrical awards

Flanders won the 1974

Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Dramatic Presentation for his performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, for which he also received the 1974 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.[6]

References

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7
    . Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  2. ^ "Ed Flanders Biography (1934–1995)". Film Reference Library. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  3. ISBN 978-0-3074-8320-1
    .
  4. ^ a b c "Ed Flanders, 60, Actor Known For His Work in 'St. Elsewhere'". The New York Times. March 2, 1995. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Gliatto, Tom (March 20, 1995). "From Elsewhere to Nowhere". People. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  6. ^ "Ed Flanders: Awards". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 8, 2018.

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