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Jun 12, 2021 · It took 'Diff'rent Strokes" to rule one of the best '80s sitcoms. We look back on Conrad Bain, Dana Plato, Gary Coleman and other beloved stars who've passed.
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Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series 1978–1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Aug 6, 2018 · With the death of actress Charlotte Rae on Sunday, Todd Bridges is now the last surviving original member of the "Diff'rent Strokes" cast.
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Jun 6, 2022 · In 1978, Diff'rent Strokes paved the way for mixed-race families on TV. Since then, many of the stars of this iconic sitcom have died, so let's take a look.
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Despite congenital health problems which led to his never growing taller than 4’8,” Coleman experienced a towering achievement at the start of his career. As Arnold Jackson, the plucky Harlem boy adopted into a wealthy white household on Diff’rent Strokesfrom 1978-86 – with his much-mimicked catchphrase of, “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” – Cole...
As has been chronicled, the three children on the series grew up into troubled lives. Dana Plato, 34, died of a drug overdose in 1999. (Plato’s son, Tyler Lambert, never came to terms with his mother’s death, and committed suicideon May 6, 2010. He was 25.) The show’s Willis, actor Todd Bridges, now 45, was first arrested in 1994 after allegedly ra...
At times, there appeared to be turnarounds in his fortunes. In February 2008 – at the age of 40 – Coleman marriedfor the first time. He’d met his bride, Shannon Price, on a movie set the previous August. She was 22. Coleman admitted that Price was the first woman in his life. “I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone,...
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Dec 2, 2021 · He remains active in independent productions and, following the death of co-star Charlotte Rae in 2018, is the last surviving original cast member of "Diff'rent Strokes." Dana Plato's fall...
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, respectively, who are two boys from Harlem taken in by a wealthy Park Avenue businessman and his daughter. Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain) is a widower for whom their deceased mother previously worked; his daughter, Kimberly, is played by Dana Plato.
