Paid For Fursuiting? Living The Dream, Baby!
For years Janos Prohaska was Hollywood's go to animal suit man.
Take The Money And Run
The Cookie Bear, the Andy Williams show.
The Outer Limits, The Probe, 1965.
Star Trek, Devil In The Dark, 1967.
An animal lover, fittingly enough. One of the few times Prohaska did appear on TV and
show his face wasn't for any hairy role he'd accepted, but on the game
show What's My Line? In that episode, he arrives as a contestant
in a gorilla suit like you'd expect, but removes the suit once it's
time to start playing.
Star Trek again, A Private Little War.
Some TV show.
Outer Limits, The Sixth Finger. 1963
Land Of The Giants, 1968. Boy, did this show suck. And - we had to walk to the TV and manually change channels with a dial. How long must my people suffer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janos_Prohaska
Debbie the Bloop, Lost In Space, 1965.
Janos Prohaska, Blackhawk. Howard Chaykin.
Named in tribute to the actor, in case anyone is wondering why a Pole has a Hungarian name.
Wednesday 13 March 1974
The cast and crew of the television series 'Primal
Man' was returning from shooting a prehistoric hunting sequence in the
snow-covered Sierra. Amongst the crew were director-writer Dennis
Azzarella and actor Janos Prohaska.
Flight 802 departed Hollywood-Burbank Airport at 18:14 to pick up the passengers at Bishop. The flight from Burbank to Bishop was conducted under VFR conditions and at 19:10 the crew contacted the Tonopah Flight Service Station (FSS) and cancelled their VFR flight plan. The crew then "air filed" an IFR flight plan for the return trip from Bishop to Burbank. The aircraft landed at Bishop at 19:20. Baggage and equipment were loaded and 32 passengers boarded the flight. The Convair CV-440 departed the gate at about 20:20. The crew then contacted the Tonopah FSS and advised that they were taxiing for departure and requested that their IFR clearance be activated.
After takeoff from runway 12 the flight made a climbing right turn, circled back over, or near, the BIH VOR (Bishop Airfield Coordinates) and then proceeded outbound in an east-southeasterly direction.
At 20:24 Flight 802 again contacted the Tonopah FSS and reported that they were off Bishop at 20:20 and were, "climbing VFR over Bishop, awaiting clearance."
About four minutes later the aircraft struck a foothill in the White Mountain range at an elevation of 6100 feet (1860 m). The aircraft was on a heading of about 175 degrees magnetic and in an approximate 25 degree bank to the right at impact.
Flight 802 departed Hollywood-Burbank Airport at 18:14 to pick up the passengers at Bishop. The flight from Burbank to Bishop was conducted under VFR conditions and at 19:10 the crew contacted the Tonopah Flight Service Station (FSS) and cancelled their VFR flight plan. The crew then "air filed" an IFR flight plan for the return trip from Bishop to Burbank. The aircraft landed at Bishop at 19:20. Baggage and equipment were loaded and 32 passengers boarded the flight. The Convair CV-440 departed the gate at about 20:20. The crew then contacted the Tonopah FSS and advised that they were taxiing for departure and requested that their IFR clearance be activated.
After takeoff from runway 12 the flight made a climbing right turn, circled back over, or near, the BIH VOR (Bishop Airfield Coordinates) and then proceeded outbound in an east-southeasterly direction.
At 20:24 Flight 802 again contacted the Tonopah FSS and reported that they were off Bishop at 20:20 and were, "climbing VFR over Bishop, awaiting clearance."
About four minutes later the aircraft struck a foothill in the White Mountain range at an elevation of 6100 feet (1860 m). The aircraft was on a heading of about 175 degrees magnetic and in an approximate 25 degree bank to the right at impact.
It is unknown why the experienced crew ran into that ridge of mountain. There was no indication of instrument failure. They were flying Visual Flight Rules, meaning that they did not see an obstacle. Janos' equally talented son Robert was killed as well.
Goodbye.
This post was Andibi's idea, but I found out about Janos after watching The Case Of The Grinning Gorilla, above. So we're both right!
A truly talented man-a shame about the plane crash
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's about the strangest crash I have ever read about. The pilots knew the area, had visual on the landscape, yet they ran into a mile high strip of rock. Something doesn't add up, the FAA was unable to determine a cause. My brother said there must have been a gorilla going wild in the cabin!
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