Henry Gibson Net Worth

Henry Gibson's Quotes

• Why does the farmer hate the frog? I don't know why the farmer hates the frog.

Interesting Facts about Henry Gibson

1. Attended Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C.
2. On the Wonder Woman (1975) season one commentary, executive producer Douglas S. Cramer called him a 1960s and 1970s comic genius.
3. Before appearing on Laugh-In (1967), he developed a nightclub act to perform his poems. It was during this time that he developed the character of a southern poet.
4. So convincing was his southern poet character that Gibson once received a letter from the Governor of Alabama claiming he was "...one of the most exciting talents to come out of Alabama since Tallulah Bankhead".
5. Attended the Catholic University of America with actor Jon Voight during the 1950s. Along with Voight, he developed a comedy routine and came up with the stage name Henry Gibson. Voight used the name Harold Gibson and together they played two southern hillbillies. After this, Voight took up more serious acting whilst Henry Gibson carried on with his comedy routine, eventually landing his famous role on Laugh-In (1967), playing a southern poet.
6. Henry Gibson is actually a stage name - he was born James Bateman. He named himself after Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen because "...if you say his name with a Southern accent, it sounds like Henry Gibson".
7. The only male cast member of Nashville (1975) to receive a Golden Globe Award nomination for acting.
8. Had appeared in episodes of four different series which featured witches: Bewitched (1964), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Charmed (1998) and Boston Legal (2004).
9. Had three sons: Jon Gibson, a business affairs executive at Universal Pictures; Charles Gibson, a director and two-time Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor; and James Gibson, a screenwriter.
10. His father was of Irish ancestry. His mother had English, German, Irish, and distant Dutch, ancestry.
11. Following his death, he was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
12. Henry Gibson passed away on September 14, 2009, only one week from what would have been his 74th birthday on September 21.
13. He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Nutty Professor (1963), Nashville (1975) and The Blues Brothers (1980).
14. He was a first cousin of metal sculptor and powerlifter Hugh Cassidy, and a first cousin, once removed, of vocalist Eva Cassidy, who was Hugh's daughter. Henry's great-grandfather, Lewis C. Cassidy, was a lawyer and politician who was Attorney General of Pennsylvania, from 1883 to 1887.