Post by Ragingblues on Sept 1, 2008 19:04:30 GMT -5
Gold Monkey Actor Jeff MacKay Passes Away
www.theraider.net/news/fullstory_miscellaneous.php?id=907
Actor Jeff Mackay, who portrayed Corky on the Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired show called Tales of the Gold Monkey, passed away on August 22nd at the age of 60 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The actor, a cousin to screen star Robert Redford, played Corky the sidekick mechanic to the pilot hero, Jake Cutter. Described on the show as a "little slow on the uptake", Corky always managed to get Jake's Gruman Goose up in the air just in the nick of time to escape blood-thirty natives, pre-WWII Nazi and Japanese villains. The actor was also a favorite on other shows produced by Gold Monkey producer Donald Bellasario and Glen Larson shows like Magnum P.I. (with would be Indy Tom Selleck), JAG and even Battlestar Galactica, the original series in 1978.
Sadly, TVShosonDVD.com reports that plans for a proper box set of the Tales of the Gold Monkey is still delayed, and now sadly will not have a chance to have actor Jeff MacKay provide any commentary on the shows.
Fellow TheRaider.net writer Stephen Jared interviewed Jeff Mackay and other crew members of Tales of the Gold Monkey in early 2006. The interview is still online and can be found here:
www.theraider.net/features/interviews/gold_monkey_01.php
Ken
www.theraider.net/news/fullstory_miscellaneous.php?id=907
Actor Jeff Mackay, who portrayed Corky on the Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired show called Tales of the Gold Monkey, passed away on August 22nd at the age of 60 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The actor, a cousin to screen star Robert Redford, played Corky the sidekick mechanic to the pilot hero, Jake Cutter. Described on the show as a "little slow on the uptake", Corky always managed to get Jake's Gruman Goose up in the air just in the nick of time to escape blood-thirty natives, pre-WWII Nazi and Japanese villains. The actor was also a favorite on other shows produced by Gold Monkey producer Donald Bellasario and Glen Larson shows like Magnum P.I. (with would be Indy Tom Selleck), JAG and even Battlestar Galactica, the original series in 1978.
Sadly, TVShosonDVD.com reports that plans for a proper box set of the Tales of the Gold Monkey is still delayed, and now sadly will not have a chance to have actor Jeff MacKay provide any commentary on the shows.
Fellow TheRaider.net writer Stephen Jared interviewed Jeff Mackay and other crew members of Tales of the Gold Monkey in early 2006. The interview is still online and can be found here:
www.theraider.net/features/interviews/gold_monkey_01.php
Ken
