Talk:Bronson Pinchot

High school
Did he really go to Pasadena High School? The site famous-alumni says he went to South Pasadena High School. (South Pasadena is an entirely different city from Pasadena.)-- Bovineone 06:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * For reference, IMDB confirms that he actually graduated from South Pasadena High school in 1977 . I see the article has already been corrected by someone to reflect the correct school. -- Bovineone 02:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding this line:

"In 1985, while appearing on the short-lived TV series Sara, he briefly jerked off on Johnson Ct. in North Hollywood with several roommates."

...I'm not sure whether the author meant to type something other than "jerked off", or perhaps was from another country and is unaware that in American English, to "jerk off" means to masturbate. I would edit the line, but I'm not sure what actual meaning was intended. Can someone confirm the meaning of the Ct?

Please see http://ffc.fcstuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=6179 for details.

Ct. is the abbreviation for "Court" - typically a dead end street.

No, you're wrong. There is no court on this street.


 * Yes, and one imagines Johnson Court intersects with Penis Place. - Nunh-huh 23:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

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Ashkenazi Jew?
User 201.235.161.132 has added Bronson Pinchot to the List of Ashkenazi Jews. I have flagged this here because of the four changes made by 201.235.161.132 to date, the other three have all been vandalism. Please could someone with a better knowledge of the man identify whether this is true or false? -Stelio 12:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

He is not Ashkenazi. He is Bukharian Jewish on his father's side of the family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.236.160.1 (talk) 16:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Difficult?
What's the source for saying that Mr. Pinchot is difficult to work with? --From Andoria with Love (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Since nobody has responded or supplied a source for this line, I will remove it from the article. --From Andoria with Love (talk) 12:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone keeps putting the comment back in. --139.142.208.98 (talk) 18:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I saw that and I'm glad it was dealt with properly. I love how the anon said it was common knowledge yet he couldn't provide a source for it. If it were common knowledge, there would be a valid source. --From Andoria with Love (talk) 04:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm the one who put that item in and it is common knowledge that Pinchot is (or should I say 'was' ha ha ha) difficult to work with. My dad worked on "Perfect Strangers" for about a season and said Pinchot was a major pain in the ass and the whole television community knew it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.150.243.48 (talk) 03:14, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, your father's unpublished (and thus not capable of being cited) opinion on the matter is ineligible for inclusion.  Vincent   Valentine  04:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, how about this then? http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/10/21/tom-cruise-bronson-pinchot/  Or this? http://celebedge.ca/Dramarama/ContentPostingDramarama3column?newsitemid=a730f89e-19db-40d2-ac7f-15e60814ec7a&feedname=RYAN_PORTER_GOSSIP&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False .... I could go on. Do I need to? Think I proved my point.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.93.186.237 (talk) 15:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Those links both refer to an interview where Bonson Pinchot spoke about other actors (many years after they actually worked together), they say nothing about him being difficult to work with.  Susan118   talk  21:08, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

And I removed the comment again. Just because someone's daddy says he is 'the most difficult actor to work with' is certainly not enough for the inflamatory comment to stay in. Even if ONE article states it, it just isn't enough to have such an inflammatory remark written. Keep it in the blogs or other personal internet sites, not in Wikipedia. Mylittlezach (talk) 19:12, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

more recent pic?
I'm no long term wikipedian, but isn't the pic from 1987 a bit dated? Can't we use a more recent one?

How about http://www.nndb.com/people/634/000025559/bronhead.jpg

207.237.198.131 (talk) 21:49, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree, a more recent picture would be nice. I'm not familiar enough with the copyright/fair-use issues to upload one myself. Susan118 (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Here's a photo of Bronson from 2012 and it's free to use under Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodrob13/8221479226/ 74.102.78.224 (talk) 13:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Statements not supported by references
Some claims are made that Bronson Pinchot "tore down the town center" and "made the fire department move outside of town". These claims are not supported by the articles referenced. Susan118 (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

PA land issue (under "Personal Life")
I've revised this section a few times to clarify and to remove unsupported statements, but am starting to question whether it needs to be included at all. It seems that this is a minor local issue that got spread through the media simply because he is a celebrity, but not something that is significant enough in his life to be included in a bio. Susan118 (talk) 02:28, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Since no one seems to have anything to say about it, I'll remove the text in question.--Susan118 (talk) 21:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Youtube as a source
A Youtube clip is cited as a source for mentioning that he was engaged to Amy Heckering. According to Wikipedia's Reliable source policies, youtube clips are not generally a reliable source, but "In some cases, video clips published on YouTube may be acceptable as primary sources if their authenticity can be confirmed, or as a secondary source if they can be traced to a reliable publisher, but even then should be used with caution". I would say this is not true in this case, especially as it is an audio-only clip of an interview that is supposedly of Amy Heckering. Anyway, is it worth mentioning that they were engaged? I wouldn't think so, although it is interesting that she involved him in some of her projects while they were engaged (which isn't mentioned in the article). I could probably dig up something that would better support the statement of their engagement than a youtube clip, but I'm not sure it should even be mentioned.--Susan118 (talk) 21:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm going to give it a couple of more days, and if no one objects, I will remove that line, since the youtube clip is dubious as an acceptable source. --Susan118 (talk) 23:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Another category?
Does he also belong in the "People from Pennsylvainia" category given his considerable interests and apparently large periods of time spent there? 75.200.0.32 (talk) 00:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Pinchot on Fox News
Pinchot just appeared on Fox & Friends (02/11/2012 9:01 AM EST) promoting his upcoming show, The Bronson Pinchot Project. Fox & Friends' Clayton Morris kept calling him "Brosnan" (as in Pierce Brosnan). Pinchot interrupted Morris and then went off on Morris at the very beginning of the interview (!), asserting that non-professionals such as waiters often call him Brosnan, but not professionals. Pinchot then told Morris to just sit there with his good hair and be quiet. Morris then interviewed Bronson, seemingly unaffected by Bronson's comments. Later in the short interview, after Pinchot refused to do his Balki character, Morris did the Balki character and Pinchot told him that it was terrible (it wasn't) and how it was like a stagehand stepping forward to do the impression until they could get a professional to do the impression. The article could be improved by bringing out this side of Bronson's personality (might help explain his lack of work) or his views on work staff (e.g., waiters and stagehands), which probably appear in prior reliable sources should someone decide to spend the time to look. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 14:20, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree, he has a decades-long pattern of this, which does show up from time to time in articles about him bossing other actors around, and even in an interview where he disparages wait staff (http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/pinchot.htm). I added a link to an interview with one of his Perfect Strangers co-stars (https://perfectstrangersreviewed.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/interview-with-rebeca-golden/), who says that he constantly sexually assaulted her during the show, but it keeps getting removed. 97.81.89.5 (talk) 16:17, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Semiprotected
I have semiprotected this article for a week. A reminder that we cannot use self-published sources like blogs for any type of controversial statements about a BLP, per WP:BLPSPS. --M asem (t) 22:38, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Filmography
Pinchot was in a 1990 made-for-TV movie called “Jury Duty: The Comedy” (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0099907/reviews) 108.26.228.73 (talk) 17:29, 2 May 2024 (UTC)