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Sep 8, 2017 · Steven Kampmann (right) got his big break into the acting and writing business when he auditioned for and was accepted into The Second City improv-comedy troupe’s touring group.
- Some Actual Hotel “People Watching” Inspired The Series.
- If You’Re Ever in Vermont, You Can Spend The Night at The Stratford.
- Mary Frann Balked at Playing The smiling, Indulgent Wife.
- Bob Newhart and Tom Poston Were Old Friends.
- Larry, Darryl, and Darryl Arrived Sooner on The Scene Than You May Remember.
- The Show Wasn’T Afraid to Make Radical changes.
- The Stars Knew How to Get The Audience to Laugh with Them and at them.
- “Larry” Wore A Lucky Quarter in His ear.
- The Darryls Weren’T Allowed to Speak to The Press.
- Art Imitated Life in at Least One Episode.
Bob Newhart got the idea for Newhart while dining in the restaurant of a Hilton hotel in Seattle. After observing the various visitors for a while, he concluded that hotel guests are just as nonsensical as the patients Bob Hartley used to treat on The Bob Newhart Show. “I function well with a bunch of crazies around me I can react to,” Newhart told...
The exterior shots of the Stratford Inn are actually the Waybury Innin East Middlebury, Vermont. It was built by John Foote in 1810 as a boarding house and tavern for local workers and stagecoach travelers passing through the Green Mountains. It’s still in business, complete with an autographed photo of Bob Newhart in the lobby and a few assorted p...
When Mary Frann was hired to play Joanna Loudon, Bob Newhart immediately took her aside and warned her, “You’re going to have a tough job because Suzy (Suzanne Pleshette, Newhart’s previous sitcom wife) and I, we had this wonderful rapport, and they’re going to compare you to it, and it’s going to be tough on you.” After a few seasons, Frann rebell...
Tom Poston was a longtime personal friend of Bob Newhart’s who would occasionally pop up on The Bob Newhart Show as Bob’s old college roommate and partner-in-juvenile-pranks, “The Peeper.” Poston landed a regular co-starring role onNewhartas George Utley, the seemingly bumbling handyman who also exhibited unexpected moments of brilliant insight. Ba...
The trio of backwoodsmen known as Larry, Darryl, and Darryl actually made their first appearance in the series’ second episode. Dick hired their “company,” Anything for a Buck, to unearth the 300-year-old body of a woman buried in the Stratford Inn’s basement. The audience’s reaction to the brothers did not go unnoticed by Newhart and co-creator Ke...
Newhartwas one of the rare shows that actually improved after a major retooling and the addition of several new characters. Newhart himself has said that, in hindsight, part of the problem with the first two seasons was that there were two characters that weren’t really working: Kirk Devane (the owner of the Minuteman Café, played by Steven Kampman...
Unlike most sitcom stars, Newhartpreferred to go out and do his own audience warm-up before each episode was filmed. It helped him keep in touch with his stand-up roots and relieved any pre-show jitters. Tom Poston had his own crowd-bonding ritual: he would purposely blow a line in his first scene and then utter an expletive. The studio audience wo...
William Sanderson, who played Larry, graduated from Memphis State University with a BBA and JD, but the acting bug bit him before he sat for the bar exam. Despite this educational pedigree, Sanderson remained very much a good ol’ Memphis boy at heart. While working on Newharthe sipped Jack Daniels and read the Bible in his dressing room between tak...
Tony Papenfuss (First Darryl) and John Voldstad (Second Darryl) are both classically trained actors who had years of stage experience on their resumes when they landed their Newhart parts. Both actors’ agents actually advised them against accepting the roles, since they were non-speaking parts. (Did they mind never getting to talk? “They never said...
Steven Kampmann lived in Vermont for several years after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. While still working on Newhart, he talked to the writers about an article he’d read in the Burlington Free Press about recent UFO sightings in Richford, Vermont. That news story was the basis for the season one episode entitled “Heaven Knows Mr....
Steven Kampmann is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kampmann was one of the main writers for the radio station-themed sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" (1978-1981).
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- May 31, 1947
- Steven Kampmann
Oct 31, 2021 · ELLSWORTH — You might not expect to see Parkinson’s Disease and boxing in the same sentence, but Birch Harbor resident Steven Kampmann wants that to change.
Steven Kampmann is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kampmann was one of the main writers for the radio station-themed sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" (1978-1981).
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- May 31, 1947
Apr 21, 2022 · Today, Kampmann maintains a connection to Cincinnati: one of his four sons lives there. He’s most proud of them, his wife Judith (a star in her own right on several Norman Lear sitcoms), and dog Greta, who was adopted in Cincinnati.
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Jan 17, 2023 · Father and son duo, Steven and Michael Kampmann team up for authentic and provocative conversation based on the quotes that Steven has memorized over the last nine years. In each podcast, a quote is randomly picked out of a hat and then discussed.
