“I kept floundering about on the floor and I didn’t know why I couldn’t do it. “I fell on the floor, and I couldn’t get up,” he told an interviewer in 2001. Returning to his dressing room after a meal away from the studio, he suddenly collapsed. He was appearing in the TV series “Sports Night” as Isaac Jaffee, executive producer of a sports highlight show. The career of Robert Guillaume almost ended in January 1999 at Walt Disney Studio. The series made Guillaume wealthy and famous, but he regretted that Benson’s wit had to be toned down to make him more appealing as the lead star. The character became so popular that ABC was persuaded to launch a spinoff, simply called “Benson,” which lasted from 1979 to 1986. To me, Benson was the revenge for all those stereotyped guys who looked like Benson in the ’40s and ’50s (movies) and had to keep their mouths shut.” “Every role was written against type, especially Benson, who wasn’t subservient to anyone. “The minute I saw the script, I knew I had a live one,” he recalled in 2001.
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