{"id":744074,"date":"2022-01-11T03:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/dwayne-hickman-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-star-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T03:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:52:02","slug":"dwayne-hickman-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-star-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/dwayne-hickman-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-star-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Hickman, ‘The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis’ star, dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 10 (UPI) —<\/span> Dwayne Hickman, an actor best known for starring in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis<\/i>, has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n

Hickman died following a battle with Parkinson’s disease Sunday at his home in Los Angeles while being surrounded by family, his publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to USA Today.\n<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times also confirmed his death.<\/p>\n

Hickman portrayed the titular girl-crazy teenager in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis<\/i>, which ran for four seasons from 1959 to 1963. Bob Denver, Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld also starred.<\/p>\n

The actor got his start as an extra on The Grapes of Wrath<\/i> at the age of 6 and also appeared in Captain Eddie<\/i>, The Boy with the Green Hair<\/i>, The Lone Ranger<\/i> and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet<\/i>. He was a regular on The Bob Cummings Show<\/i> as Cummings’ nephew Chuck MacDonald.<\/p>\n

Hickman additionally starred in films How to Stuff a Wild Bikini<\/i>, Ski Party<\/i> and Cat Ballou<\/i>. He later became a network executive at CBS in the 1970s where he supervised the development of Maude<\/i>, M*A*S*H<\/i> and more.\n<\/p>\n

Hickman worked as a television director on Designing Women<\/i>, Head of the Class<\/i> and Sister, Sister<\/i>. He reprised his role as Dobie Gillis in television movies Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?<\/i> and Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Hickman is survived by his wife Joan Roberts and his sons Albert and John.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 10 (UPI) — Dwayne Hickman, an actor best known for starring in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, has died at the age of 87. Hickman died following a battle with Parkinson’s disease Sunday at his home in Los Angeles while being surrounded by family, his publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to USA Today. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}