Stu Gilliam

Stewart Byron "Stu" Gilliam (July 27, 1933

In the 1960s and 1970s Gilliam did stand-up work along with TV and film appearances. He appeared on national TV shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, Playboy After Dark, and The Dean Martin Show. In 1968, he was paired with Don Adams and Robert Culp in Get Smart as Agent Samuels (really Kubacek, a double agent in deep disguise) in "Die, Spy", a spoof of the television series I Spy. He was the voice of Freddie "Curly" Neal on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Harlem Globetrotters in the early seventies. Gilliam was a panelist on the first season of the game show Match Game '73 ( episodes 41-45 and 51-56 ).

Gilliam co-starred in the CBS sitcom Roll Out during the 1973–74 season. Also starring Hilly Hicks, and featuring Ed Begley, Jr. and Garrett Morris, the series was set in France during World War II and was loosely based on the 1952 film Red Ball Express.

Gilliam was an active member of the Bahá'í Faith. He married Vivian Baravalle in 2007 and moved to her residence in the Czech Republic. They had one daughter, Velnita. Gilliam died of a heart attack in České Budějovice on October 11, 2013, at age 80. He had also been battling lung cancer and COPD. He is buried in Boršov nad Vltavou.