I suspect that regular Daily Mirror readers will guess him right away. Update: Gardner McKay in 1962 with his dog, named Pussycat.
Photograph by George R. Fry Los Angeles Times
Please congratulate Dewey Webb for recognizing our mystery guest. Here's our fellow with another animal.
Update: In 1977, McKay retrieves a pet cheetah named Kenya from the roof of the garage at his Coldwater Canyon home.
Times file photo
Here's a big clue to our mystery fellow.
Update: This is McKay in a 1960 publicity photo for "Adventures in Paradise." The Times cropped it down to a one-column mug shot. No bare-chested, hunky guys in The Times, folks. As late as 1971, the art department painted a shirt on a photo of bare-chested Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man." Incredible.
Los Angeles Times file photo
I'm getting lots of correct guesses. Let's see who else figures out the name of our mystery guest.
Let's see -- the 4th photo makes me think it is John Derek, who was "Svengali" to Ursula Andress' "Trilby" -- and then to Linda Evans.... and Bo Derek -- . I certainly don't recognize him in first photo!
Seeing Gardner McKay's image after so long, prompted me to read more about him. Like many, I knew him only from one TV series, and vaguely recalled that he left acting to pursue 'other interests'. What I discovered is that he lived a rich, adventurous, and creative life after acting. It seems that the character he portrayed in 'Paradise' was an authentic, although small, facet of a gifted, bright, and adventurous man. He seems to have been the real deal.
Garner McKay?
Posted by: Dewey Webb | December 08, 2008 at 09:13 AM
It is Dean Jones with the Shaggy Dog.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | December 08, 2008 at 02:38 PM
Fred MacMurray?
Posted by: Rinky Dink | December 08, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Is it Ralph Helfer?
Posted by: zabadu | December 09, 2008 at 08:14 AM
Okay, how about Bob Weatherwax?
Posted by: zabadu | December 09, 2008 at 01:55 PM
He looks a tad like Rudd Weatherwax.
Posted by: MichaelRyerson | December 10, 2008 at 03:19 AM
Think the pipe smoker is Gardner McKay at the helm for 'Adventures in Paradise', and not the dean of animal university.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | December 10, 2008 at 08:49 AM
Tom Hatten? The guy from the Popeye show?
Posted by: Sandy | December 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM
John Saxon??
Posted by: LEE RIVAS | December 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
John Saxon??
Posted by: LEE RIVAS | December 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Gardner McKay
Posted by: Tim Ahern | December 10, 2008 at 04:31 PM
How about that Gardner McKay?
Posted by: Tom Page | December 10, 2008 at 04:31 PM
Gardner McKay
Posted by: Tim Ahern | December 10, 2008 at 04:31 PM
Gardner McKay
Posted by: Tom Page | December 10, 2008 at 04:33 PM
This one has got to be Gardner McKay although pic #1 looks more like CNN's soon to be departed Miles O'Brien.
Posted by: Barry O'Brien | December 10, 2008 at 05:12 PM
You're right - the third photo is the give away. Gardner McKay from Adventures in Paradise.
Posted by: Waldo Lydecker | December 10, 2008 at 05:35 PM
Gardner McKay!
Posted by: Pamela Porter | December 10, 2008 at 06:28 PM
Ty Hardin
Posted by: Nancy | December 10, 2008 at 07:44 PM
Richard Zanuck?
Posted by: Joe in Phoenix | December 11, 2008 at 07:29 AM
It's Gardner McKay.
Posted by: Richard Heft | December 11, 2008 at 08:10 AM
gardener mckay from adventures in paradise
Posted by: herb nichols | December 11, 2008 at 08:42 AM
Hmmmm....Gardner McKay of "Adventures in Paradise"?
Posted by: Carol Gwenn | December 11, 2008 at 09:35 AM
Ah, Gardiner McKay.
Posted by: MichaelRyerson | December 11, 2008 at 06:46 PM
Let's see -- the 4th photo makes me think it is John Derek, who was "Svengali" to Ursula Andress' "Trilby" -- and then to Linda Evans.... and Bo Derek -- . I certainly don't recognize him in first photo!
Posted by: LBard | December 11, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Seeing Gardner McKay's image after so long, prompted me to read more about him. Like many, I knew him only from one TV series, and vaguely recalled that he left acting to pursue 'other interests'. What I discovered is that he lived a rich, adventurous, and creative life after acting. It seems that the character he portrayed in 'Paradise' was an authentic, although small, facet of a gifted, bright, and adventurous man. He seems to have been the real deal.
Thanks for giving McKay fresh exposure.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | December 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM