Charles Nelson Reilly was a cult figure among television game show fans, who especially savored his

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Charles Nelson Reilly was a cult figure among television game show fans, who especially savored his regular role on The Match Game . During the show's heyday in the 1970s, Charles Nelson Reilly was beloved for his campy wisecracks, flowery ascots, and barbed exchanges with fellow panelist Brett Somers . Reilly also played the comically wicked HooDoo on the offbeat 1970s Saturday morning series Lidsville . Despite his wacky TV reputation, Reilly fashioned a serious career as a theater actor and director: he won a 1962 Tony Award for his role in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and was nominated as a director for The Gin Game in 1997. He directed Julie Harris kadar in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play about Emily Dickinson , in 1977. Reilly also did voice work for animated films including All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) and Rock A Doodle (1991). In the 1990s, Charles Nelson Reilly made a memorable appearance as author Jose Chung on the TV show The X-Files . In the 2000s he toured in a one-man show, Save It For the Stage: The Life of Reilly , which was the basis for a 2006 film, The Life of Reilly .
Charles Nelson Reilly's co-stars on The Match Game included Richard Dawson and host Gene Rayburn ... Internet rumors about a movie titled Charles Nelson Reilly kadar Won't Die! are false -- they're the result of a 2001 April Fool's Day joke.
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