Word: journeyman
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...fact, Beaver was at the time a student of philosophy at Berkeley, and is now a disc jockey and journeyman actor. Ken Osmond joined the Los Angeles police department in 1970 and sued the distributors of Holmes' films to clear up the confusion. Dow is a writer, sometime actor and the father of a son (it was his TV stand-in who was married to Raquel Welch). Mathers is currently negotiating with a network to update the past in a two-hour TV movie version of Leave It to Beaver, starring the original cast (minus the late Hugh Beaumont...
DIED. Hugh Beaumont, 73, journeyman Hollywood actor whose name was etched into the public consciousness through the longevity of a TV hit series, when for 234 half-hour performances in the 1950s and '60s he was Ward Cleaver, the All-American suburban father on the still repeated Leave It to Beaver; of an apparent heart attack; during a visit to Munich, West Germany...
...entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual anonymity...
...arts, like photography. Today the schools are full of chickens with Nikons whose entire professional sense turns on the thought of stardom, however temporary that blessed state may be. Though most photography is routine, the air is so sodden with "creativity" and "expression" that the idea of being a journeyman photographer seems unthinkable. Hence the difficulty of understanding a career like Eugène Atget...
Most often an actor's amplitude just happens, then turns out to be a help. It is especially useful to a gifted but lesser known journeyman such as Pat Mines, who after 29 years in show business is at last in a Broadway hit, playing the wily courtier Count Orsini-Rosenberg in Amadeus. Says he: "I'm sure there is a 'fat list,' perhaps even written down, that producers consult. You like to think you're hired strictly for your abilities, but I know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might...