Larry Tate
I'm watching an episode where Larry's son, Jonathan is being watched by Aunt Clara. I was shocked at how young the son is, because Larry seems more "grandfatherly" to me 😃
share'Accidental Twins' is one of my favorite Aunt Clara"goof-up" episodes. David White was only fifty-one in that episode. Sure he was old enough to be a grandfather, but not that old for a dad with a young son. My brother-in-law became a father for the last time at the age of fifty. (my sister wanted to kill him! lol).
David White was younger than Brad Pitt in that episode. Must've been the grey hair that made him look older! He was one of those men who always had a distinguished older look.
That episode reminds me of a continuity error in the show. In the first season, Louise Tate is excited about finally becoming a mother (And Something Makes Three). But she's worried about how Larry will take the news because they've been married for sixteen years.
In the season three episode, 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered', Darrin insists that he and Sam horn in on the Tate's second honeymoon when he sees the next day's newspaper zapped up by Aunt Clara. It reports that Larry Tate will break his leg and Darrin wants to prevent it.
The newspaper was actually the next day's date from TEN years ago. Larry explains that they are actually on their first honeymoon because ten years ago when they went on their first one, he broke his leg.
By that point the Tates would've been married almost twenty years if Louise was right in season one.
Oh I love those inconsistencies!
It was more than gray hair. David White also looked older in the face (and, frankly, body).
In the Napoleon episode, Larry states he's 47 (!!). White looked much older than 47 (and was 53).
We must remember that White had a tragic set of circumstances. In 1958, his wife, respected acting coach Mary
Whelch, died while giving birth to White's only son - also named Jonathan. White was suddenly the father of a
newborn, while mourning his wife's death.
In 1988, his one son Jonathan was killed in a plane crash, and White was said to never have been the same. He
died in 1990.
Oh yes, he did have a lot of tragedy. Now that you mention it, I recall reading that his son Jonathan was on that ill-fated Pan Am flight that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.
A lot of the actors who played multiple roles on Bewitched (usually as Darrin's clients) looked much older than their years. Who can forget that great Parley Baer? He was only in his early fifties when he appeared on the first few seasons of Bewitched.
The first Frank Stephens, Robert F. Simon, retired from his job in a first season episode of Bewitched. The actor was only fifty six, but you could believe he was older.
In contrast, Ralph Macchio was thirty one when he played the college "yout" in 'My Cousin Vinny.' He looked young enough to play the grandson of one of Darrin's clients.
The subject of how some people look way older than their age and some look younger really fascinates me. And I mean more "youthful" naturally (not cosmetically enhanced). Some men have that boyish look and some like Charles Lane, look old very fast.
In the ILL episode when Lucy gives birth, Ricky encounters Charles Lane's character in "The Waiting Fathers Room". When I was a kid I didn't understand an OLD man having a baby. But he was only forty eight in that episode!
Yup I remember that. Poor guy. Though he did Marry the following year and remained so until his death in 90'. At least he wasn't alone to deal with the grief of losing his son...
shareNice. I don't recall reading that he remarried; I thought he raised his son single.
David White should've been Emmy nominated several times for his work. I never appreciated him as a kid,
but now I get how much he added to the series.
Most definitely. He deserved his name in the credits eventually as well.
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