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Apr 20, 2023 · Gilligan's Island remains among the most popular TV series of all time. Here's where the cast is now.
- Staff Writer
Tina Louise (Ginger) Backus passed away in 1989, Hale in 1990, Schafer in 1991, Denver in 2005, Johnson in 2014, and Wells in 2020. Tina Louise remains the only member of the main cast still...
- Michelle Kapusta
- Senior Writer
- Bob Denver. Bob Denver played the character the show was named for. Gilligan was the first mate on the boat that became shipwrecked, stranding not only him but also his skipper and five sight-seeing passengers on an island far away from home.
- Alan Hale. Alan Hale Jr. played the Skipper on the hit sitcom. He was born on March 8, 1921, in Los Angeles. His father was actor Rufus Edward MacKahan, who used the stage name Alan Hale Sr.
- Jim Backus. Jim Backus was born on Feb. 25, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio. Backus began his acting career in the 1940s and continued to work in entertainment after Gilligan’s Island.
- Natalie Schafer. Natalie Schafer played the millionaire’s wife, Mrs. Lovey Howell. She was born on Nov. 5, 1900, in Red Bank, New Jersey, and raised in Manhattan.
- Dalton Norman
- Senior Staff Writer
- Bob Denver (Gilligan) Bob Denver was already a staple of 1960s TV before he landed the role of Willie Gilligan on Gilligan's Island, but he would forever be known as the bucket hat-wearing "little buddy" for the rest of his career.
- Alan Hale Jr. (Skipper) The most accomplished actor in the cast by the time he appeared in Gilligan's Island, Alan Hale Jr. was a veteran of dozens of movies and shows by 1964.
- Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III) Already famous for providing the voice of the iconic cartoon character Mr. Magoo, Jim Backus' character work nabbed him the role of Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island.
- Natalie Schafer (Lovey Howell) An incredibly accomplished dramatist on Broadway before she cracked into the film business, Natalie Schafer found the role that made her famous as Lovey Howell on Gilligan's Island.
Jan 19, 2022 · In sum, yes, as of mid-January 2022, a "Gilligan's Island" guest star was alive and almost 103 years old. At the time, the only living star from the main cast of the show was Tina Louise,...
Jan 17, 2014 · Bob Denver (Gilligan): The actor, who played the show's titular character, died in 2005 at 70 in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he was being treated for cancer at Wake Forest University Baptist...
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Dec 30, 2020 · Dawn Wells, the real-life Mary Ann Summers of “Gilligan’s Island,” was just as sunny and down-to-earth off-screen as she was on-screen, her co-star Tina Louise, the show’s only surviving...
