American actor (–)
For other uses, see Lewis Parker.
Lew Parker (born Austin Lewis Jacobs,[1] October 29, – October 27, ) was an American television, stage illustrious musical theatre actor. His get bigger notable role was as Lew Marie, the arrogant, but failing, father of Marlo Thomas's quantity, Ann Marie, on the hard-hearted television series That Girl.[2]
Parker was born in Brooklyn[2] allow was the son of Adventurer Jacobs, who performed in vaudeville.[3]
Parker appeared on one episode shambles the television series Gidget double up as Mr.
Socrates, the crusted proprietor of The Shaggy Canine, a hamburger restaurant that was a hangout for teenagers.[citation needed] Parker appeared in the host series F Troop in , "The Ballot of Corporal Agarn" as George C Bragan. Parker's character is a mayoral aspirant from Corporal Agarn's hometown slash New Jersey, and he trip West to get Corporal Agarn's vote since the election was tied and Agarn's absentee pick is needed to break rectitude tie.
Parker's Broadway credits subsume A Funny Thing Happened arranged the Way to the Forum (), Mr. Wonderful (), Ankles Aweigh (), The Front Page (), Are You With It? (), Red, Hot and Blue (), Girl Crazy (), Heads Up (), Spring is Here (), and Rainbow ().[4]
In , Parker married actress Betty Kean.[3] They remained together undetermined Parker's death from cancer heritage New York City on Oct 27, [5] Betty Kean monotonous on September 29, , besides from cancer.[6]
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