Throwback Thursday and Pat Corley
Pat Corley was born in Dallas, Texas on
June 1, 1930.
From 1988 to 1996, Pat Corley played the
bar owner in the popular sitcom Murphy
Brown. He also appeared in Hill
Street Blues, (playing the coroner), and his career included appearances in
many different TV shows, from St.
Elsewhere to Murder, She Wrote. He
got his start in television with a small role in N.Y.P.D and in several commercials.
But most people don’t know that he
started his working life as a ballet dancer, performing with the Stockton
Ballet when he was a teenager. He stayed with them for three seasons. He also
performed in summer stock theater, and, after moving to New York he worked both
on and off Broadway.
He died on September 11,2006 of
congestive heart failure. He was 76 years old.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Factoid #123:
“Pat Corley, who played
the bar owner on the sitcom Murphy Brown, started as a ballet dancer.”
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“Acting is
not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is
apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
― Meryl Streep
― Meryl Streep
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