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Remember Ben Casey on TV? He's dead now and he gambled himself to death, got in trouble with the mafia loan sharks and all kinds of mayhem. But he was a body builder in his day, check it out.

fix your link if you want us to discuss this.

Wow. I never knew this before.

"Edwards referred to rival actor Richard Chamberlain as "a hack," and that he "couldn't act his way out of a paper bag." During a heated confrontation between the two actors in Central Park in 1964, Edwards threw his ice cream cone onto Chamberlain's suit. The two never spoke again."

MARY!

Girls, girls! You're both doctors!

Post a better link, OP. You are getting on my nerves.

Need some help there, OP?

I always thought he was Jewish. Like maybe his name was Vincent Edward Stein (or Segal or Salinger).

No, he was Italian, and like most good-looking Italians a bit screwed up in the head.

Because, as R9 told us, he was Italian and, as we already know, of another generation, when circumcision wasn't at popular as it later became.

That's a lot of floppy skin on the end of his knob. Pyoo.

R11. Because he is civilized. And his parents and others of their generation were not barbarians.

You mean because his parents birthed him on the kitchen table, don't you R14?

It costs an additional $10 to get circumcised.

All I remember is some old Jewish doctor saying "man, woman, birth, death, infinity" at the beginning of all the episodes or else a gurney crashing through emergency room doors or something, the rest is a blur. Vince Edwards got really ugly when he grew old. I thought Vince Edwards and Annette Funicello had a vague resemblance to each other then.

He was well known for his gambling addiction. True story: He used to borrow money from a star-struck young woman working in the lab at the hospital where I also worked.

.ot able to retrieve pics !

R16 if circumcision were extra money then jews would't do it.

Was that a slur, you goyim? Oy. Don't get me started.

Ultra micro tinymeat. Quelle disappointment!

That is your idea of a bodybuilder...Yeah right.

Sexy man, beautiful big thick bush, bet that thing grows big time

BabyJane has some shots posted on Ebay. There's also a nude that can be found on a google search....

Not a single nude on this link.

Lies.

LIES!

Via Tales of West Hollywood blog.

[quote] He's dead now and he gambled himself to death

How exactly would one do that? I didn't realize "gambling" was a cause of death.

Vincent had a twin brother named Anthony (Zoino).

[quote] I didn't realize "gambling" was a cause of death.

Me neither, And nobody can prove otherwise

He did not "gamble himself to death." He died of pancreatic cancer.

He did have a bad gambling addiction, and said it seriously hurt his career; but it had nothing to do with his death.

R20 I suppose a mob hit for unpaid gambling debt would qualify.

Another prime piece of Italian-American meat out of Brooklyn, NY. Back when Brownsville was a totally different place than what it has become......

MOVIES! channel does Sunday Night Noir where they feature some great old films from that genre. Channel surfing caught beginning of "City of Fear"(released in 1959), and once saw Vince Edwards in opening moments that got my attention, so made some snacks and sat down to watch.

Died aged 67, far too young....

Up until the time they were largely phased out, those side button white tunics that all doctors (male), dentists (ditto) male nurses, along with orderlies wore were called either Dr. Kildarie or Dr. Ben Casey shirts, blouses or tunics. Popularity soon spread and even ready made women's blouses or tunics with same design came out, that or you could buy patterns and run up your own.

I remember male pharmacists also used to wear those shoulder buttoned tunics r40.

Also barbers, dental assistants (and dentists), etc.

My dad was a dentist and I remember those white smocks with the Nehru collars. Later it was a zip front, Star-Trek looking get up, in the colors of the day, avocado, gold etc.

[quote] "Edwards referred to rival actor Richard Chamberlain as "a hack," and that he "couldn't act his way out of a paper bag."

Plus Edwards had one of the better theme music pieces of the early sixties, it grabbed you. Far better than Chamberlain's wimpy "three stars shall shine tonight".

I saw him in an old movie a couple of weeks ago...his career pretty much went no where. Probably because he did not know how to get along with gay guys.

[quote] Probably because he did not know how to get along with gay guys.

Maybe he's not a very quick learner. The New York Times said he started out working as a chorus boy on Broadway.

All smiles here, behaving like perfect gentlemen.

Maybe Richard Chamberlain made a move on Vince Edwards and he wasn't having it.

R46

Wouldn't say Vince Edward's career went no where; rather it was quite good considering his background. Mr. Edwards did quite a lot of work on other side of camera besides acting.

"When Vince Edwards heard the rumours circulating around the studio lots about a feud between him and Chamberlain, it began to get under his skin.

He said; “Mostly, a little success breeds a feud, or the feud is bred by a lot of loudmouths looking to put the knock on the two guys involved. Let’s say that competition is good for a long healthy life. If you want to call Dick competition, that’s alright with me, because knowing he’s got a good show only makes me want to try harder to come up with one of my own that lives up to the Ben Casey seal of perfection. I feel a kinship with him.”

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Now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty...

"Chamberlain came out of nowhere last year to grab the lead on the Kildare show. His previous experience was limited to bit parts in television films and a small part in the Western movie, "A Thunder of Drums." He also made another feature film, "Secrets of the Purple Reef," which was soon forgotten."

If you compare IMDb pages from before their medical television series both Richard Chamberlain and Vince Edwards have decent amount of credits. But Vince Edwards is slightly ahead in body of work which includes several film roles including "City of Fear".

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