After attending West High School, he graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in English literature in 1961, then earned his master’s in theater from UCLA.Īfter a stint in the U.S. The son of an FBI special agent, David Edwin Birney was born on April 23, 1939, and raised in Cleveland.
In her 2011 book Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering, Baxter - who went on to star as the mom Elyse Keaton on the 1980s sitcom Family Ties, of course - wrote that Birney was emotionally and physically abusive to her, claims that he denied. They had three kids of their own and were together until their 1989 divorce. ( M*A*S*H wound up moving from Sundays to take its spot.)Įach divorced at the time, Birney and Baxter (who had two kids from her first marriage) wound up getting married for real in May 1974. “The program treats intermarriage, one of the gravest problems facing Jews today, not only as an existent phenomenon but one that should be totally accepted,” Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities, told The New York Times in 1973.īaxter even reported getting bomb threats, and the series, though in the top 10 in the ratings, was not renewed after airing its 24th and final episode in March 1973.
#STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE DAVID BIRNEY SERIES#
The premise seems innocent enough now, but Jewish groups back then launched a full-scale protest to get the series off the air. Their characters wed during the third episode and lived in an apartment above a deli owned by Bernie’s folks.
#STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE DAVID BIRNEY DRIVER#
Michael Lamont, Broadway Actor Turned Photographer, Dies at 76Ĭreated by Bernard Slade ( The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family) and similar in theme to the 1920s Broadway hit Abie’s Irish Rose, Bridget Loves Bernie premiered in September 1972 in the enviable Saturday night slot between All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.īirney portrayed Bernie Steinberg, a Jewish cab driver and struggling playwright, and Baxter played Bridget Fitzgerald, a Catholic grade school teacher from a wealthy family.
0 kommentar(er)
