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Smiles everyone, Smiles! So began this long-running (7 season) series which was one of the ABC Network's anthology/guest-cast series (along with The Love Boat) that proved wildly popular. Each week two guests came to 'Fantasy Island' to get their wish/fantasy fulfilled. Their mysterious host, the debonair and suave white-suited Mr. Roarke, would do the sometimes impossible and grant them their wishes...but there was always some twist to the fantasy, letting the guest learn something about themselves or get something they weren't expecting. Best remembered for the presence of Herve Villechaize as the diminuitive 'Tattoo' and his cry of 'De plane! De plane!' the show proved popular enough to go the distance and then spawn a brief revival/remake in the 1990s. A remake, Fantasy Island (1998)in the late 1990's was not as successful as its predecessor. In 2020 it was made into a movie with Michael Pena in the title role.
22 December 1922, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
June 8, 1931 in Berlin, Germany
29 September 1925, Huntsville, Texas, USA
17 February 1953, USA
22 March 1920, Gródek Jagiellonski, Lwowskie, Poland [now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
19 June 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
July 3, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
11 February 1919, Budapest, Hungary
8 August 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 May 1958, Newport Beach, California, USA
14 April 1933, Tottenham, London, England, UK
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
21 November 1939, Springfield, Illinois, USA
18 March 1926, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
11 December 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 25, 1927 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA
22 September 1911, Fremont, Nebraska, USA
July 9, 1957 in Valley Village, California, USA
30 June 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 May 1922, Spokane, Washington, USA
1 February 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 February 1926, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 April 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
25 May 1926, Nelson, Georgia, USA
4 January 1927, Denver, Colorado, USA