Bottom of His Pool - The Life and Sad Ending® of Joe Flynn

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
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    A mini bio on the life and career of actor Joe Flynn. He was most famous for appearing on the 60's tv sitcom "McHale's Navy".
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  • @don66hotrod94
    @don66hotrod94 26 дней назад +32

    Joe played the inept and overbearing Captain Binghamton to perfection on McHales Navy. What a character that was. Thanks for remembering him.

  • @bobbylee2853
    @bobbylee2853 Месяц назад +76

    His voice was his bread and butter.

  • @garypayne2157
    @garypayne2157 27 дней назад +31

    He was great in McHale's Navy. Scenes with he and Tim Conway were histerical!

    • @jesavino1255
      @jesavino1255 25 дней назад +2

      They were a great comedy team.

    • @Fat12219
      @Fat12219 16 дней назад

      Very funny 😂

  • @marchelleharris4842
    @marchelleharris4842 29 дней назад +31

    He was hilarious in Mchale’s Navy. I loved him in that.😊

  • @georgealexander7976
    @georgealexander7976 Месяц назад +75

    He seemed to be just right for the parts he played!!

  • @jackbarrett7835
    @jackbarrett7835 Месяц назад +28

    I think he played the parts he was given to perfection

  • @ksw501
    @ksw501 Месяц назад +39

    Joe Flynn was great as "Lead Bottom" in McHale's Navy. I enjoyed his work in Disney films as well. "Whaaah...whaaah...whaah" was one of his trademarks in McHale's Navy. Keep up the great work Steve.

  • @shirleylackey801
    @shirleylackey801 26 дней назад +9

    Joe and I were door gunners on a B 52 when we were in the Coast guard !! 😂

    • @fazole
      @fazole 18 дней назад

      B-52s don't have door guns or fly in the coast guard.

  • @richardsylvanus2717
    @richardsylvanus2717 Месяц назад +43

    RIP old Leadbottom

  • @alvincash3230
    @alvincash3230 Месяц назад +20

    He was one of my favorites in many movies & shows, especially on McHales Navy. When I watch him still, he is hilarious.

  • @thisisme3238
    @thisisme3238 Месяц назад +30

    Hi Steve! I remember Joe from "McHale's Navy," sitcom. Gone too soon...may he rest in peace. 🕊️

  • @gioscott2363
    @gioscott2363 Месяц назад +94

    Ol led bottom himself, I enjoyed him in the Disney films, that was when Disney made good film without an agenda.

    • @malibustacy3606
      @malibustacy3606 Месяц назад +2

      Dean Eugene Higgins

    • @FYMASMD
      @FYMASMD Месяц назад

      Go have a good cry

    • @petesmith9472
      @petesmith9472 Месяц назад +6

      What agenda? Surely you don’t believe in the Desantis crap?

    • @invisibleman1028
      @invisibleman1028 29 дней назад

      @@petesmith9472 The agenda that they admitted to on a Zoom call . Look at more news than CNN or CNBC

    • @georgelevin6134
      @georgelevin6134 29 дней назад

      @@petesmith9472you can’t be that damm ignorant. Wise up.

  • @robingrant4903
    @robingrant4903 26 дней назад +7

    Joe flynn was brilliant as capt. binghamton in Mchales navy, he had a knack in being funny, a natural.

  • @majkdigitalmedia7530
    @majkdigitalmedia7530 25 дней назад +6

    I remember hearing back in the day that indeed Joe was floating on a raft having a drink when he had a heart attack. The scenes with he and Kurt Russel in all of the Dexter Riley/Dean Higgins films were wonderful.

  • @ozzpockettriesbassguitar5647
    @ozzpockettriesbassguitar5647 24 дня назад +6

    I always thought he played his parts perfectly....his voice and everything was "just right" for his character. I didn't realize he passed so young.

  • @user-xy6el5yj6c
    @user-xy6el5yj6c Месяц назад +32

    He was murdered! He was the 1st to speak out about the lousy residual contracts of that tv era. Only paid 4 residuals per episode of any tv show. After that nothing! Just ask the cast of Gilligan. At 1 time the most watched tv reruns in history next to Lucy and the cast got nothing! Most of the cast died broke but not Sherwood Swartz. He sold Gilligan for 90 million and gave the cast nothing!!! What would it have taken to have kept half and given the cast the other 45 million split evenly. Greed that's what. Flynn died trying to right a WRONG. Today the actors are paid in perpetuity but not then. Friends actors make 20 million a year. Big bang close to the same. But not then. Flynn gave his life to right a WRONG. All the actors making millions today from residuals OWE him large but they have no idea that he gave his life to change the status quo.

    • @MG-es2no
      @MG-es2no 29 дней назад +8

      Before this video, I read he was found at the bottom of his pool, WITH HIS LEG IN A CAST! I found it suspicious then. After reading your comment, I'm even MORE so. I figure he was smart enough NOT to even get in the pool witrh that thing on his leg. Much less attempt to sawim. I mean, REALLY, SWIM WITH A CAST! I'm sure his doctor told him to keep it dry. So why would he attempt to swim in it? Sounds fishy to me. Maybe the heart attack came on cause he was trying to swim to safety, in a now water logged cast.🤔

    • @SMtWalkerS
      @SMtWalkerS 23 дня назад +1

      Wow! This would make a good movie.

    • @thomasdonlin5456
      @thomasdonlin5456 22 дня назад

      I agree with your assessment.

    • @burtonfiles8654
      @burtonfiles8654 21 день назад +1

      I believe you are correct! He was murdered ... the industry is full of devils.

  • @Dwayne-mb2uj
    @Dwayne-mb2uj 29 дней назад +8

    I When I was 9 an 11 year old pulled my limp body from the bottom of a church school pool in Garden Grove Ca .It was the week they set foot on the moon . I am thank full for every day since then .It is too bad he was alone with no one to help him.

  • @ralphromeo7066
    @ralphromeo7066 28 дней назад +6

    Joe did a great deal for actors everywhere when he started the movement with SAG. For that, I'm eternally grateful to "old lead bottom."

  • @RjBenjamin353
    @RjBenjamin353 Месяц назад +11

    His double takes were legendary

    • @redskinjeff
      @redskinjeff Месяц назад +1

      No one in the history of comedy ever did a double-take better than Joe Flynn. The writers on McHales Navy got to where they'd build one into every scene he was in for just that reason.
      Speaking of which, I don't think they knew what they had when the show started out. McHales Navy was conceived as a knockoff of Sgt. Bilko, and in the first few episodes Flynn was playing essentially the same befuddled nebbish Paul Ford did in Bilko. But as the show developed, the Capt. Binghamton character evolved. Rather than making him a passive victim of the PT 73 crew's antics, the writers discovered how funny Flynn was when he went manic. Eventually, most of the situations were the result of Binghamton's malevolence rather than McHale's schemes.
      The sad thing to me is that, once the show was canceled, he went back to playing nebbishes because casting directors wouldn't let him play over-the-top comic villains again.
      For my money, he was the most underrated comic in TV history. Timing like this is genius.
      ruclips.net/video/NOgC1phuSag/видео.html

  • @tomyanno972
    @tomyanno972 Месяц назад +8

    Loved Joe in McHale’s Navy…wouldn’t have been the same without him. Lost him way too soon, though…RIP.

  • @PatrickDoran2319
    @PatrickDoran2319 Месяц назад +17

    His last film role and most nostalgic is him as the voice of Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers (1977) Snoops was the henchman of Madame Medusa.

    • @billl1127
      @billl1127 Месяц назад +2

      He died in 1974. Must have taken them a long time to complete production.

    • @PatrickDoran2319
      @PatrickDoran2319 Месяц назад +4

      @@billl1127 It’s possible but Joe Flynn may have already completed his lines before his death and the films release

  • @robertchambliss8630
    @robertchambliss8630 28 дней назад +4

    Flynn was hilarious. I remember when he died and couldn’t believe it. Flynn and Conway were comedy gold.

  • @jamesdavis6036
    @jamesdavis6036 27 дней назад +5

    I've been watching reruns of McHales Navy that I haven't seen since I was a kid. When Captain Bingamton comes on, belly busting laughs. He made the show,
    What What What?

  • @albertwells8503
    @albertwells8503 Месяц назад +6

    The story I always heard was he was lounging near his swimming pool when the heart attack came on. He got up to get help, lost consciousness, and tumbled into the pool.

  • @Luvoldmovies-Kat.St.Aug.
    @Luvoldmovies-Kat.St.Aug. Месяц назад +8

    Seen him in a movie yesterday!🎥📺 “FUNNY “ for me 😄 Enjoy the Disney ones, McHales Navy for sure . Guest appearances on Tv Shows . Man that’s a sad ending, only 49 yrs .❤👍😇

  • @johammond9359
    @johammond9359 Месяц назад +9

    I like that you tell us ALL the movies and sitcoms, etc. that he was in. I'm sure I didn't realize I was watching him on many of them. I never saw the Tim Conway show and only heard about it when I saw him on Johnny Carson...here on RUclips.
    Thanks again.

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 27 дней назад +3

    Loved him he knew my grandfather very well .my grandfather was also good friends with John Wayne and Mike Muzurki. Joe was a nice man .

  • @davidpruiksma8014
    @davidpruiksma8014 Месяц назад +6

    I thought when Flynn and Conway were paired up they were often hilarious!

  • @stevebreeden582
    @stevebreeden582 21 день назад +4

    IMO, Flynn’s acting in McHale’s Navy holds up well, and to me, if even funnier today.

  • @temims
    @temims Месяц назад +8

    Very funny man. He played "That Guy"....so well!. He was a part of my growing up and in all the shows of my youth. "Fair winds and Following Seas Captain Binghamton"

  • @thomasmoshier3920
    @thomasmoshier3920 Месяц назад +7

    I remember him from those Disney movies as a kid as well as TV. He always played the same character. I liked him……

  • @x-man5056
    @x-man5056 26 дней назад +3

    He was perfect as Capt. Binghamton. Loved that show as a kid.

  • @colderbeer
    @colderbeer 28 дней назад +4

    Flynn was HILARIOUS.

  • @graemesmith2742
    @graemesmith2742 28 дней назад +2

    I enjoyed Joe Flynn in all of the movies and tv shows, l think that l saw most of them. A very underrated actor, hello from Melbourne Australia

  • @susangreene9662
    @susangreene9662 14 дней назад +1

    No one could have played Binghamton better!! Loved him. You mention the Disney movies he was in. Those were great years.

  • @m.f.m.67
    @m.f.m.67 Месяц назад +6

    I always thought he was hilarious. I never found his over-the-top anger anything but funny. His Dean Higgins was great. I remember seeing him once on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He was very witty. He left us far too soon.

  • @daphne1079
    @daphne1079 18 дней назад +1

    Loved his voice. What a talent.

  • @Collector261
    @Collector261 29 дней назад +6

    Take Note" Although Captain Binghamton hated Ensign Parker, in real life Joe Flyn and Tim Conway were the best of best fronds. In 1962 it was Joe Flyn in Los Angeles who contacted Tim Conway who was playing at the time on local TV in Cleveland, to come out west to join the cast on a new show ''McHale's Navy''.

  • @melaniexoxo
    @melaniexoxo Месяц назад +17

    You’re uploading a lot lately. Good to see it!

    • @1linkbelt
      @1linkbelt Месяц назад +2

      I agree with that!!

  • @georgemorgan5906
    @georgemorgan5906 21 день назад +1

    Joe Flynn was great in all he did! Thank you for being Captain of our funny bones!

  • @bernie472
    @bernie472 26 дней назад +2

    I remember him in a few Disney movies. The Love Bug, was one of my favorites as a kid. He must have passed away sometime during filming of Disney's The Strongest Man In The World which was released in Feb 1975.

  • @williamwelch7
    @williamwelch7 Месяц назад +4

    Thanks Steve. Loved him in the Disney movies.

  • @henrybrowne7248
    @henrybrowne7248 Месяц назад +6

    I could just scream . . .

  • @Doug41160
    @Doug41160 16 дней назад +1

    I loved watching and laughing at Joe Flynn in McHale's Navy and the Disney movies where has was the sorehead college dean. Nobody could play a better hothead than joe.

  • @MikeGrant-zt7uo
    @MikeGrant-zt7uo Месяц назад +5

    Hard to believe that Capt. Binghamton was younger than I am now

  • @garywest8705
    @garywest8705 23 дня назад +3

    RIP Joe. You made McHale Navy become what it is.

  • @largedoglover99
    @largedoglover99 Месяц назад +6

    When characters annoy me, I realize that nowadays, the writers are responsible for the dialogue

  • @kduffy760
    @kduffy760 29 дней назад +4

    My dad looked just like him. We lived in LA and people would ask him for his autograph.

  • @KillrMillr7
    @KillrMillr7 22 дня назад +1

    I loved that guy, he was the funniest one on McHale’s navy imo. What what what now… lol. May he rest in peace.

  • @gonavy1
    @gonavy1 Месяц назад +7

    Boy, a lot of these actors seemed really old when I was a kid. Although now that they've passed, they seemed young. I wonder how that happened?

    • @TheLifeandSadEnding
      @TheLifeandSadEnding  Месяц назад +2

      Oh, you know.

    • @gonavy1
      @gonavy1 Месяц назад +1

      @@TheLifeandSadEnding Steve, yes I do know that's for sure.

  • @Sandra-cm1du
    @Sandra-cm1du 16 дней назад +1

    Flynn was a great character actor.

  • @baymaxc1647
    @baymaxc1647 21 день назад +1

    Loved this Man!

  • @Terry-hm4bs
    @Terry-hm4bs 28 дней назад +2

    He also played the devil in The Ghost And Mrs. Muir as well hosted a game show called, "It Pays To Be Ignorant." May he rest in peace.

  • @user-sq4jz9up6g
    @user-sq4jz9up6g 26 дней назад +2

    Joe and Tim Conway were great together he was a little over the top at times but very funny such a tragic way to go😮

  • @dottiegillespie8067
    @dottiegillespie8067 Месяц назад +3

    He was very funny. I enjoyed all he did. Thank you sir, i love your content.

  • @mariofilippi3539
    @mariofilippi3539 Месяц назад +2

    Enjoyed this video, thanks.

  • @bloqk16
    @bloqk16 28 дней назад +2

    I've found that 60 years later when watching the episodes of the "McHale's Navy" TV series, the real star of the show was Joe Flynn, even though Ernest Borgnine got top-billing.
    The persona of Captain Binghamton that Flynn brought to the character, and especially the physical comedy for the countless pratfalls Flynn performed . . . _all marvelously brilliant!_

  • @Arthur5260
    @Arthur5260 26 дней назад +2

    He was great in the Disney movies

  • @RichardHardy-ce1sw
    @RichardHardy-ce1sw 26 дней назад +1

    Thank-you!

  • @JohnLancaster-fh3oc
    @JohnLancaster-fh3oc 21 день назад +1

    He was great in the Disney movies.

  • @bloqk16
    @bloqk16 28 дней назад +1

    In a print article I saw years ago, Ernest Borgnine said that a possible contributing factor for Joe Flynn's fatal heart attack was from the vigorous crusade Flynn did with getting the film/distribution industries to pay residuals on past TV shows that ran in syndication.
    I personally recall a TV Guide article from the early 1970s which quoted Flynn being furious when he saw a rerun of a McHale's Navy episode playing on local TV, as Flynn wasn't receiving any rerun residuals from that televised airing.

  • @christopherthorkon3997
    @christopherthorkon3997 Месяц назад +2

    He was funny. Loved his expressive voice.

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 21 день назад +1

    Childhood memories .

  • @Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat
    @Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Месяц назад +4

    Thanks. He was great as the dour funeral director in a "night gallery" episode, ("the funeral"), Hilarious. ❤

  • @desert.mantis
    @desert.mantis Месяц назад +3

    I enjoyed seeing Joe in his various rolls.

  • @chrisnewman7281
    @chrisnewman7281 Месяц назад +2

    It takes from mcHale’s Navy very funny and Joe Flynn is particularly so

  • @cynthiamclellan6745
    @cynthiamclellan6745 19 дней назад +1

    I thought Flynn was hilarious "wa, wa, wa"🤣

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 Месяц назад +5

    He was just so wonderful on mchales navy with Conway sorry you did not care for his comedy but he was so funny. I really loved him in the movie McHales Navy Joins the Airforce, which i have on dvd. HE and Conway were amazing. So sad he left so soon. But people have the right to love what they want too. Also have the 4 seasons of McHales Navy on dvd. Glad you told his story.

  • @joycampi7233
    @joycampi7233 29 дней назад +3

    McHales Navy. Classic

  • @JosephQuast
    @JosephQuast Месяц назад +2

    Thanks Man .

  • @neal5068
    @neal5068 23 дня назад +1

    So great in Disney movies

  • @overthehill1958
    @overthehill1958 Месяц назад +3

    He was great! He made McHales Navy.

  • @raystevens1458
    @raystevens1458 26 дней назад +1

    Thanks for running this, was something that I didn't know, how sad, he lived up to his nickname, "lead bottom" sorry, couldn't help that.

  • @douglasjacobberger7663
    @douglasjacobberger7663 Месяц назад +4

    I think he was funny and good actor. I owned a pool for 8 years. I would never go swimming by myself. I never had problems, but having others around while swimming is always safe. One of the reasons I never went ingo the pool without someone around was due to the memory of Mr., Flynn's accident.

  • @pattyheitzman8635
    @pattyheitzman8635 Месяц назад +3

    He did the voice of one of the bad guys(overweight guy)on the cartoon movie The Rescuers and King Vitamin in the King Vitamin cereal commercials. And he was in an S&H green stamps commercial where he played a father who's daughter is getting married.

  • @CherylthePearl
    @CherylthePearl Месяц назад +9

    Loved to watch him in everything he was in. He was even funnier then the stars of McHale's Navy.

  • @eddylauterback1312
    @eddylauterback1312 25 дней назад +3

    What what what! Line from McHales

  • @pannamal5182
    @pannamal5182 Месяц назад +3

    He was soooooo funny. Grew up with Joe.

  • @DanMitchel-dp8ul
    @DanMitchel-dp8ul 29 дней назад +2

    I liked Joe with Werner Klemperer in the Night Gallery plus he and Tim Conway were a great duo

  • @tomkoepke1627
    @tomkoepke1627 Месяц назад +2

    At the end of the day - Joe was a character actor, and like most actors he got what work he could to support himself and his family.

  • @thrashpondopons8348
    @thrashpondopons8348 Месяц назад +2

    He was the man you love to hate!

  • @sloppydog4375
    @sloppydog4375 27 дней назад +1

    I liked him he was a really good actor .

  • @JamesWilliams-js4fo
    @JamesWilliams-js4fo 29 дней назад +2

    McHale's Navy wouldn't have been the same without him. The whole thing with the cast on his leg truly is strange.
    He was probably walking alongside the pool and fell in and because of the cast went straight down.

  • @dreinoehl4660
    @dreinoehl4660 29 дней назад +2

    Joe was great

  • @Fat12219
    @Fat12219 16 дней назад +1

    He was a good actor 😮

  • @robertjolly3021
    @robertjolly3021 Месяц назад +2

    A funny guy, Great in McHale's Navy, RIP MR. FLYNN. 🙏🙏

  • @Janet-hs4wl
    @Janet-hs4wl 24 дня назад +1

    Him and tim conway one of the funniest tv series id watched in black and white t.v.

  • @brianfergus839
    @brianfergus839 26 дней назад +1

    Those glasses! For some reason I’ll always remember a scene with him from McHale’s Navy where a parachute falls on his head and when the camera cuts to him, he’s covered by the parachute except his glasses are outside the parachute. So stupid and funny 🤦‍♂️

  • @channamation
    @channamation 28 дней назад +1

    I always loved the work of Joe Flynn. I found him to be extremely funny. McHales Navy, that was my introduction to this wonderful talent. I too wonder why he was at the bottom of the pool. R.I.P Joe Flynn.

  • @wallacegrommet3479
    @wallacegrommet3479 Месяц назад +2

    Loved him, funny

  • @wannabe41
    @wannabe41 Месяц назад +3

    I think his character’s were often written as one note, one dimensional people. If viewers had been given just a glimpse into other aspects of his personality, maybe he would have been viewed more sympathetically.

  • @realamerican6101
    @realamerican6101 27 дней назад +1

    Joe Flynn super funny and loved.

  • @czechmate6916
    @czechmate6916 28 дней назад +1

    I remember him well in all the movies and shows he played in and I thought he was very good and funny.

  • @jasemclamb1451
    @jasemclamb1451 25 дней назад +1

    I loved him in the Disney movies with Kurt Russell. They made great adversaries

  • @edubsmama
    @edubsmama 22 дня назад +1

    He was also in Disney's Super Dad!

  • @slidezone9056
    @slidezone9056 28 дней назад +1

    "McHale's Navy" was a childhood favorite of mine. And you mentioned irritating...As a kid, I also watched "Gilligan's Island". But Gilligan irritated the HECK outta' me. He was always the one who messed up their chances of getting off the island. But like everyone else, I forgave him and tuned in next week. Now, Mary Ann might have had something to do with that. 😉

  • @norwoodwildlife9849
    @norwoodwildlife9849 Месяц назад +2

    Maybe he didn't realize how much water
    a cast can absorb and when it started
    weighing him down he panicked and that's
    when he had a heart attack.

  • @BRinMilwaukee
    @BRinMilwaukee 26 дней назад +1

    I liked him as Dean Higgins, and in How to Frame a Figg

  • @Porsche996driver
    @Porsche996driver 29 дней назад +2

    Nice finish lol. But stick around a while ha.
    Yes on McHales Navy he was grating, but that set up the comedy scenes. Absurd but based on local officers for sure!
    One of my favorite shows as a kid during summers in Pittsburgh with my cousins. Great memories.

  • @Jimrauchsgps
    @Jimrauchsgps 24 дня назад +1

    “McHale!” was his most famous line