"Steve Allen Show, The" Steve Allen & Louis Nye Feb. 1958/NBC
Caption: "Steve Allen Show, The" Steve Allen & Louis Nye Feb. 1958/NBC
Actor, Soundtrack
Born: May 1, 1913
Star sign: Taurus
Known for: The Facts of Life (1960), Cannonball Run II (1984), Good Neighbor Sam (1964), The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980)
Source: IMDB
He was one of those delightfully pretentious comic actors you loved to hate, his flip manner and faux rich boy arrogance possessing his characters no matter what social stature they were. Louis Nye (first name pronounced Louie) was a master at sketch comedy, foreign accents and the quicksilver adlib. Born To Russian-Jewish émigrés in Hartford, ...