Philip Anthony McKeon (November 11, 1964 – December 10, 2019) was an American child actor and radio personality, best known for his role as Tommy Hyatt, the son of the title character on the television sitcom Alice from 1976 to 1985.
He was played originally by Alfred Lutter III, who reprised his role from the 1974 Martin Scorcese directed movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, but when the series began, he was replaced by Philip McKeon, who played him from the show's second episode through the series end.
Alfred Lutter, who played Tommy in the original movie, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, as well as in the pilot episode of the series, was thought to be too old for the long haul and was not chosen for the part.
DALLAS — Philip McKeon, who as a child actor was featured as the son of Linda Lavin's Alice Hyatt in the 1980s CBS situation comedy “Alice,” has died in Texas at age 55, a family spokesman said.
He was most recognizable as Tommy Hyatt, the son of the titular character on “Alice,” played by Linda Lavin. The show, which ran from 1976 to 1985, followed Alice, an aspiring singer who worked as a waitress at a diner in Phoenix.
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Philip McKeon, a former child actor best known for playing the son on the CBS sitcom “Alice,” died on Tuesday morning in a hospital in Texas. He was 55. A family spokesman, Jeff Ballard, said he died after a long illness, which he declined to specify. From 1976 to 1985, Mr.
Some believe that she is named Lorina after Alice's real-life sister. Her name was never revealed in Disney's film, but she was named Mathilda in Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr. She is named Ada in the 1995 Jetlag animated film.
Beth Howland, who made high anxiety an art form as the ditsy, accident-prone waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the 1970s and '80s sitcom “Alice,” died on Dec. 31, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif., her husband said on Tuesday. He had refrained from announcing her death earlier in keeping with her wishes. She was 74.
Polly Holliday left "Alice" in the middle of it's fourth season to star in her own show, where Flo moves to Texas. The series ran from March 24, 1980 to July 21, 1981.
When Polly Holliday left the series, her absence was explained by having Flo take a job as a hostess at a restaurant in Houston. However, she was sidetracked and opened her own place, which was the basis for Polly Holliday's spin-off series Flo (1980).
Electronic Arts, the publisher and owner of the Alice IP, was uninterested in backing the project. They were also not willing to sell the IP back to American so that he could find a new publisher for Asylum.
She worked on shows, including The Division, Sonny With a Chance, and Dancing With the Stars. McKeon reunited with her former Facts of Life costars in Lifetime's Light Up My Christmas (2019), and also starred on the Amazon Prime horror series Panic in 2021.
Alice Spivak Hyatt (Lavin) is an unemployed widow after her husband Donald is killed in a trucking accident, and with her young son Tommy (played by Alfred Lutter in the television pilot, reprising his role from the film, but portrayed by Philip McKeon thereafter) heads from their New Jersey home to Los Angeles to ...
Mel called Vera "Dingy"; Jolene "Blondie"; and would often tell everyone else to "stow it!" or later on, in the case of Jolene and Belle, "Bag it!" His greatest adversary, however, was Flo.
Walden, played by none other than Linda Lavin herself. Though she dates from time to time, Vera lives alone but has one major love interest towards the end of the series: Elliot. They fall in love and get married, and by series end, are expecting their first child. Philip McKeon played Alice's witty son, Tommy.
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which takes place on 4 May, the character is widely assumed to be seven years old; Alice gives her age as seven and a half in the sequel, which takes place on 4 November.
Dinah is Alice's little pet kitten. She has appeared in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and in Disney's Alice in Wonderland where she was voiced by Clarence Nash and Kingdom Hearts.
“Her curiosity sometimes gets the best of her, but she is very kind, and she loves making her friends happy by baking.” Other series characters get into trouble, too, like Alice's best friend, Fergie, a descendant of the White Rabbit who appears in the book and the film.
