Jack Riley
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Oct 7, 2026
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
Even, and we talk about in the book, he was pretty well burning out by the end of '66.
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
Yeah, yes, he had a- ambitions and he wanted to go out to LA and hang out with Conway and hang out with Jack Riley and other guys and succeed there.
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
But he was also, you know, they had been work, he'd been working his tail off-
Bob EthingtonHOST
Oh, sure
22 MINS LATER
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
Well, and, and we, we, we look at, as, as we talk about the passage of time, uh, so many guys who aren't, you know, Tim Conway died in 2019.
Bob EthingtonHOST
Yeah.
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
Uh, Jack Riley in 2016, Mike Douglas in 2006.
R.D. HeldenfelsGUEST
That a lot of these people who, I think to us, are still very fresh-
Ian FermaglichHOST
The number of people that were born there.
Ian FermaglichHOST
Terry Garr, John Lithgow, Gary Lewis, Burgess Meredith, and Jack Riley.
Ian FermaglichHOST
What? Oh, my
Ted WassGUEST
God.
Mike ParkerHOST
Mark and Sherry, who's donning grizzly gear.
Mike ParkerHOST
She's a grizz, and she and her husband Mark, C.V., class of 82, played baseball for Jack Riley in the mid-'80s.
Mike ParkerHOST
Mark and Sherry came by.
Mike ParkerHOST
Mark, they're already here partaking of the American Dream pizza.
Mary JonesHOST
It was.
Mary JonesHOST
Okay, so when, yeah, well, because when they get there, they have the desk clerk who's played by Jack Riley, who I think most people probably remember from the Bob Newhart show.
Mary JonesHOST
But Jack Riley had a long, long career doing a whole bunch of stuff.
Mary JonesHOST
And he was in a couple of different Mel Brooks movies as well.
Mary JonesHOST
He's also in The Long Goodbye.
12 MINS LATER
Mary JonesHOST
But no, I like the way that this is incorporating not just Hitchcock's stuff, but things influenced by Hitchcock.
Mary JonesHOST
All right.
Mary JonesHOST
Well, that was High Anxiety starring Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Dick Van Patten, Jack Riley, who I brought up, and weirdly enough, Barry Levinson, who also has a writing credit because it was written by Mel Brooks, but also Ron Clark, Rudy DeLuca, and Barry Levinson.