Talk:Jack Klugman

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Diagnosis Murder
I've just seen Jack Klugman in Diagnosis Musrder playing a Dr with a heart problem whos surgeon dies during his operation. Nothing like the description given here.81.159.219.245 (talk) 14:38, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The Odd Couple (play)
On this page it says Walter Matthau replaced Jack Klugman in the play but on the page for the play itself it says Jack Klugman replaced Walter Matthau. Does anybody know which is correct (and change accordingly)? NevarMaor (talk) 19:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed. Matthau, then Klugman, in Bdwy play.  --AndersW (talk) 16:07, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Jack Klugman's blog
Since the year 2005, Jack Klugman has a new blog, which can be found at http://jackklugman.mlblogs.com/ The old blog, http://blog.tonyandme.com/, leads to a dead link and is inaccurate. Missyagogo (talk) 19:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC)Missyagogo

Popcorn
I don't have the details to include this info as editor, but certainly someone out there should be able to write about Klugman's popcorn company (and his popcorn retail location at Bloomingdales in NYC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.254.19 (talk) 02:12, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Jewish-American
Here is a source for the claim, which is noted as a category in this article. - Wikidemon (talk) 12:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * While the article does say "Klugman was raised in a Jewish family", it also goes on to say "None of us was bar-mitzva’d. My father said he liked bacon too much. My grandfather was a religious fanatic, and my father was ashamed of him." Klugman says "I prayed a lot." as well as "If there is a God, I have nothing against him." There's no indication in the article that he self-identifies as Jewish. What is a Jew? After all that typing I didn't want to just delete that text but after reading the category talk page I see that the scope includes "Americans of Jewish heritage" so never mind. Dlabtot (talk) 18:06, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Body of Proof?
Can anyone speak to if JK has been offered a cameo in the new series Body of Proof? LP-mn (talk) 19:19, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Twilight Zone appearances entry
The current article indicates that Jack Klugman "appeared in four episodes of the acclaimed series The Twilight Zone (tied with Burgess Meredith for the most number of appearances)". This is not accurate. It would be accurate to say that Klugman is tied with Burgess Meredith for the most number of appearances 'in a lead role'. However, there were other actors/extras that appeared in more than four episodes, most notably Vaughn Taylor, who appeared in five Twilight Zone episodes (Mr. Carsville in "Time Enough at Last", salesman in "I Sing the Body Electric", Teague in "Still Valley", Mr. Judson in "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" and Mr. Maitland in "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chezwick74 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Missing the obvious
The lede clearly states Klugman is best known for The Odd Couple TV series and Quincy, M.E. Those two subject are clearly missing in the meat of the article. I have not reviewed the edit history of this article, but as a passerby, this article looks like it has been sanitized of this content. Surely there is a story about how his participation in these shows came to exist, things that happened over the course of these very prominent roles over the most public section of his career. So this is just a comment, it is irresponsible to leave out the meat of this subject. This content deserves someone knowledgeable about the subject to find and add. Trackinfo (talk) 08:22, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

removed talk show appearances
I have removed most of the below section. I couldn't even find a reference to the existence of a '93 series of going for gold. The material can be returned if citations are found. μηδείς (talk) 18:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Quiz show appearances
In 1993, Klugman appeared on a special "celebrity versus regulars" version of the United Kingdom quiz show Going for Gold. The special episode was mostly composed of actors and actresses who appeared in television programs that were on around the same time slot as Going for Gold, competing against past series winners. Klugman was invited to participate as the show Quincy, M.E., in which he starred, was often on afterwards. He won this special airing before going on to win the entire 1993 series.

Klugman also appeared on the very first week of the 1970s revival of Match Game. From time to time, he filled in for his wife, Brett Somers, when she became a regular on the program a few weeks later. Klugman and Somers also appeared on the ABC version of Password in 1973. He also did a week on "Password Plus" in February 1979; Loretta Swit was the other celebrity and Allen Ludden was the host.

Pic ugliness
I moved File:Tony Randall Jack Klugman Odd Couple 1972.JPG from left, where it sits beside the Infobox, creating a very thin, ugly column for the start of the Career section, to the right, so it would sit below the Infobox and leave room for more than 2 words per line in the text that flows around it. The change was reverted. Do people really prefer the current version, and why? —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 18:53, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Influence on Orphan Drug Act
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.44.17 (talk) 10:49, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Birth name?
The Hollywood Reporter states in Mr. Klugman's obituary that Klugman's birth name was "Jacob Joachim Klugman". In a 1998 interview for The Television Academy ("Emmys" organization), Mr. Klugman states his birth name was "Jack Klugman". Both names and sources are presently included in the article. Please discuss the issue here before deleting/reverting sourced content again. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 20:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I edited his birth name many times. I even posted a link to why. In an interview in his later life, he stated he always gave his name as "Jacob Joachim Klugman" thinking that was his birth name, as many Jewish people with the nick name "Jack" were really "Joachim".  It wasn't until he saw his birth certificate that he saw his actual birth name was "Jack Klugman" and not "Jacob Joachim Klugman", like he always thought.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedrooch (talk • contribs) 21:20, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I asked above:
 * For the information & edits to be discussed here before the information and before the source/s were added/reverted again.
 * A notice about the "3 Revert Rule" was left on your talk page, you have clearly violated that rule by reverting my edit when I asked you to discuss the issue here first.
 * Regardless, there are a couple of issues with either/or name being used:
 * Reliable sources - various obits, the 2012 THR piece - state his name was "Jacob...".
 * Mr. Klugman states, in a 1998 interview, that his name was "Jack...".
 * Klugman's New York Times obit here acknowledges the discrepancy with "Most sources indicate that his name at birth was Jacob, though Mr. Klugman said in an interview that the name on his birth certificate is Jack." I think that the Wikipedia article should acknowledge both variants of Mr. Klugman's name, along with the appropriate sources, otherwise there will be an unending and useless cycle of edit/revert/edit/revert/edit/...  Shearonink (talk) 22:55, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree that it should be addressed "|other_names  = Jacob Joachim Klugman " and add the references there. When reliable sources conflict we have to explain why they conflict and help sort out how the confusion arose. There should also be a sentence after his birth to explain why the two names, that "Jacob Joachim Klugman" is the Hebrew version of his name. Just like people have Germanic spellings of their name, like Karl and Carl, or Kristof and Christopher. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:23, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That option would be suitable to me. I'm thinking most people won't look at the 1998 interview/video, they'll read an obit and they'll think Wikipedia got it completely wrong and they'll come to the article to change it....rinse/lather/repeat... Shearonink (talk) 23:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Somers and Klugman
Somers and Klugman did, in fact, legally divorce, in 1977,, as per California Divorce Records at ancestry.com. Quis separabit? 21:33, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * What are the sources for the divorce-date, I mean linkage etc. (since Ancestry.Com can be problematic to use as a WP:IRS...) Other sources maintain the "never divorced" information (such as Bob Leszczak's "The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen: A History with Cast and Crew Profiles" which states on Page 117 that they never divorced.  Also, Somers' New York Times obituary and LA Times obituary both state "they never divorced".  If the information in the article is wrong, then it is wrong but I think more-detailed sourcing is needed. Shearonink (talk) 21:52, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I found the records at Ancestry.Com's (sorry this URL is SO huge)->"Jack Klugman in the California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984. The years of the two individual's births match up with Klugman/Somers plus Somers' legal/birth name appears as oe of the individuals, so all that would seem to prove that the divorce occurred in 1977.  BUT all the reliable sources state the divorce never occurred.  What to do... So far as I can tell, this verifiable fact does not appear in any other sources... Shearonink (talk) 22:10, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Klugman's reprising Bogart in "The Petrified Forest"
JK appeared on the 1954 live "Producers' Showcase" in "The Petrified Forest" episode; and at some point in the 90's or 00's, he reprised Bogart in a live performance on WPVI-TV in Philly. Does anyone have any references to his wonderful performances, which our entire family watched? --Discpad (talk) 20:39, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

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Murder She Wrote in missing from Television
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