Monday, July 28, 2025

This Week in Television History: July 2025 PART IV

         

July 28, 2000


Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host of the ABC talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee


August 3, 1940

Actor Martin Sheen is born Ramon Estevez in Dayton, Ohio. 

The son of a Spanish immigrant, Sheen was the seventh of 10 children. He moved to New York after high school and began pursuing an acting career while working as a janitor, car washer, and messenger. After several successful Broadway roles, he appeared in his first film, The Incident, in 1967. His film and TV career has included numerous political roles, most recently as fictional U.S. president Josiah Bartlett on the popular TV show The West Wing. Previously, he played Robert Kennedy in the TV movie The Missiles of October (1974), John F. Kennedy in the miniseries Kennedy (1983), and the White House chief of staff in The American President (1995). Sheen is the father of film stars Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.


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Tony Figueroa

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