Cheers: Relief Bartender
07:05 am - 07:15 am, Wednesday, December 31 on Channel 4 HD (104)
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Relief Bartender
Season 4, Episode 23
Sam hires a new member of staff who proves popular with colleagues and customers alike, making Woody fear his days at the bar are numbered. Comedy, starring Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson
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Cast & Crew
Ted Danson
(Actor)
.. Sam Malone
George Wendt
(Actor)
.. Norm Peterson
John Ratzenberger
(Actor)
.. Cliff Clavin
Rhea Perlman
(Actor)
.. Carla Tortelli
Woody Harrelson
(Actor)
.. Woody Boyd
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Did You Know..
Ted Danson
(Actor)
.. Sam Malone
Born:
December 29, 1947
in
San Diego, California
Best Known For:
Playing Sam Malone in Cheers.
Early-life:
Born Edward Bridge Danson III on December 29, 1947, in San Diego, California. As a youngster he was a local basketball star, but became interested in drama while attending Stanford University. Danson later transferred to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and not long after graduating was cast as an understudy in Tom Stoppard's stage production of The Real Inspector Hound. Deciding it was the career for him, Danson moved to LA to train at the Actors' Institute.
Career:
After numerous small TV and film roles, including parts in acclaimed dramas The Onion Field and Body Heat, Danson's big break came in 1982 when he was cast as retired baseball player and barkeeper Sam Malone in US sitcom Cheers. The show ran for more than a decade, and during that time, Danson received nine Emmy nominations, winning twice, and two Golden Globes. He went on to star in the successful sitcom Becker, which ran for six years. He's also starred in a number of films, including Three Men and a Baby and its sequel, Made in America, Saving Private Ryan and a highly acclaimed adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. More recent TV work includes roles in Damages, Bored to Death, and CSI.
Quote:
"I am the king of the faux pas. I call everybody by their wrong name, and I congratulate women who are not pregnant."
Trivia:
Danson enjoys tap dancing.
George Wendt
(Actor)
.. Norm Peterson
John Ratzenberger
(Actor)
.. Cliff Clavin
Born:
April 06, 1947
in
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Best Known For:
Playing Cliff Clavin in Cheers and voicing characters in Pixar films.
Early-life:
John Dezso Ratzenberger was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 6, 1947 to Bertha and Dezso. His father was of Austrian and Hungarian descent, while his mother had Polish ancestry. John moved to London in 1971.
Career:
Throughout the 1970s, Ratzenberger performed across the UK with Ray Hassett as comedy theatrical duo Sal's Meat Market. He made his film debut in The Ritz (1976). Minor roles followed in the likes of Superman (1978), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Gandhi (1982). His big break came in 1982 when he began playing a postal worker in the hugely popular American sitcom Cheers. The show ran until 1993 and Ratzenberger picked up two Emmy nominations during the run. He made a guest appearance in Frasier as Cliff Clavin. He is also well known for voicing Pixar characters, including Hamm the Piggy Bank in the Toy Story series, Tom the construction worker in Up, and Earl in The Good Dinosaur.
Quote:
"On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away."
Trivia:
In 1969, Ratzenberger was a tractor operator at the Woodstock Festival.
Rhea Perlman
(Actor)
.. Carla Tortelli
Woody Harrelson
(Actor)
.. Woody Boyd
Born:
July 23, 1961
in
Midland, Texas
Best Known For:
His starring role in Cheers and a string of hit movies.
Early-life:
Born Woodrick Tracy Harrelson on July 23, 1961, in Midland, Texas, but grew up in Lebanon, Ohio. His father, Charles, has twice been found guilty of committing murder for money - once in 1968, the second time in 1978. He is also believed to have been one of several so-called hobos escorted from the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas immediately after JFK's assassination in 1963. Harrelson gained a degree in theatre arts and English from Hanover College in Indiana before moving to New York.
Career:
Harrelson was an understudy for Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues on Broadway and appeared in various small productions before gaining the role of dimwitted barman Woody Boyd in Cheers in 1985. His TV commitments made it difficult for him to gain good movie roles, although he did star in the hit White Men Can't Jump in 1992. When the sitcom finished a year later, he concentrated on films, and has since starred in Indecent Proposal, Natural Born Killers, The People vs Larry Flynt, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Thin Red Line, A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men, The Messenger, Zombieland, 2012 and The Hunger Games movies. In 2014, he starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in HBO crime drama True Detective.
Quote:
"I like crying. And I not only wanna cry with other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!"
Trivia:
Harrelson has had a few brushes with the law.
