So, so sad. Charles Nelson Reilly, Tony-winning actor, brilliant voice-over artist, TV personality (perennial talk show guest, Match Game, Lidsville, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir…), Seventies game-show god, died last Friday at the age of 76.

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A few years ago, a fabulous documentary based around his one-man stage show, Life of Reilly was featured at SXSW.

(Click the gallery link above the photo to see a funny snap of Chronicle City Beat maven, Anne Harris with Reilly in 1984, having run into him at famed Time Square theatre haunt Sardi’s.)

This article appears in May 25 • 2007.

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