Monday, October 24, 2022

Leslie Jordan obit

Leslie Jordan Dead at 67

 

He was not on the list.

Leslie Jordan, the beloved actor and comedian has died.


Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Jordan was driving in Hollywood Monday morning when it's suspected he suffered some sort of medical emergency and crashed his BMW into the side of a building.

Leslie was famous for his work on popular TV shows like "Will & Grace," "Hearts Afire," "The Cool Kids," "Call me Kat" and "American Horror Story."

LJ became a social media sensation during the pandemic, with his silly video posts helping him skyrocket from about 80,000 Instagram followers to a whopping 5.8 million. He told us on "TMZ Live" his secret was just being himself -- a silly, funny, goofy, happy-go-lucky senior citizen.

Following his viral pandemic fame, Leslie appeared on CNN's New Year's Eve 2021 countdown, ringing in 2022 with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.

Leslie also acted in movies, including ... "The Help" and "Ski Patrol" and he made guest appearances in tons of TV shows like "Murphy Brown," "Ugly Betty," and "Boston Public."

On Sunday, Leslie posted a video on Instagram of himself singing a hymn.

The last time we saw Leslie out in public was pretty recently ... our photogs got him just last month, gauging his reaction to Elton John and Britney Spears releasing a new song together.

Jordan was an accomplished stage actor and playwright. In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram in Sordid Lives, a role he took to the big screen in the popular cult film of the same name. Jordan reprised the role in a televised spin-off of the movie, which aired on Logo, where he played a character that is in a mental hospital.[20] He wrote and starred in the autobiographical play Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel, which was also made into a motion picture. In 2004, he toured the country performing his one-man stage comedy, Like a Dog on Linoleum, to generally favorable reviews.

Jordan's first autobiographical stage show was called Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far, with music and lyrics by Joe Patrick Ward. The production, in which Jordan was backed by a gospel choir singing satirical songs about racism and homophobia, was produced off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse and ran for seven months. Next, he distilled his experiences growing up as an effeminate, tiny boy in the South and in show business into an autobiographical one-man show, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet. During the opening of My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Jordan's microphone stopped working, but he kept on with the show like nothing happened; the show was a success. After touring the nation for several months with the production, the show opened off-Broadway at the Midtown Theater on April 19, 2010. The show was produced by Jordan's friend, actress Lily Tomlin. Jordan announced on The Paul O'Grady Show that he would be bringing his show to London's Apollo Theatre.

In 2021, he released the gospel music album, Company's Comin'. Jordan was later a guest panelist on season six of The Masked Singer during Week 5 where he also did a performance of "This Little Light of Mine" as "Soft Serve".

He appeared as newspaper editor Mr. Blackly in the movie The Help. His television career includes guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Will & Grace, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Caroline in the City, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Reba, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Nash Bridges, American Horror Story, and Hearts Afire.

In 1990, Jordan portrayed the ski patrol director in Ski Patrol.[13] In 2007, he guest-starred on the comedy drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, and starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program Hidden Palms.

On the television series Will & Grace, Jordan played Beverly Leslie, Karen's pretentious, sexually ambiguous rival, for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006. His Emmy Award earned him an invitation to present the awards for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series at the 2006 Emmy Awards with Cloris Leachman a week later.

Jordan starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world's first interactive, gay-themed comedy show. On August 18, 2014, Jordan became a housemate in the 14th edition of the British reality game show Celebrity Big Brother. He was the second person to leave the Big Brother house (August 29, 2014). In January 2015, Jordan guest-starred in the British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes, as the character Buck A. Roo.

On November 1, 2017, Jordan appeared in the new British television drama Living the Dream, produced jointly by Sky and Big Talk Productions, but branded as a Sky Original Production.

In the fall of 2018, Jordan starred in the Fox sitcom The Cool Kids, along with Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence, and David Alan Grier.

On April 2, 2020, it was announced Jordan will play the role of Phil in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, along with Mayim Bialik, Swoosie Kurtz, Kyla Pratt, and Cheyenne Jackson.

He appeared as one of four guest panelists on July 28, 2022, on the Gutfeld! TV show on Fox News with host Greg Gutfield.

Leslie was 67.

RIP

Credits

Writer

 

    Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel (play)

    My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (2008)

    Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far

    How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived (2021)

 

Stage

 

    Found a Peanut (1986)[30]

    Sordid Lives (1996)

    Southern Baptist Sissies (2000)

    Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

    Like a Dog on Linoleum (2004)

    My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (2010)

    Lucky Guy (2011); off-Broadway musical, in the role of Big Al Wright

 

Filmography

Film

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1988      Moving                 Customer at Bar               

1990      Ski Patrol             Murray

1992      Hero      Court Official     

1992      Missing Pieces   Krause

1993      Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday          Shelby  

1995      Black Velvet Pantsuit      Ernie     

1996      Shoot the Moon                              

1997      Two Weeks from Sunday                              25 minutes

1998      Goodbye Lover Homer

1998      Hamburger Helper           Larry Lewis          22 minutes

1999      Eat Your Heart Out          Director               

2000      John John in the Sky        Tot Dixon             a.k.a. I'll Wave Back

2000      Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel Storyteller           writer (play; screenplay)

2000      Sordid Lives        Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram           

2001      The Gristle          Jake Bennett     

2003      Farm Sluts           Coroner                17 minutes

2003      Moving Alan       Arthur  

2004      Home on the Range        Photographer    voice actor

2004      Madhouse          Dr. Morton         

2005      Sissy Frenchfry Principal Principle            28 minutes

2007      Watch & Learn Martin 12 minutes

2007      Undead or Alive: A Zombedy       Padre   

2008      Roadside Romeo              Additional voices             

2009      Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat       Harry    

2010      Demonic Toys: Personal Demons               Prof. Butterfield               

2010      Love Ranch         Mr. Hainsworth                

2010      Leslie Jordon: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet        Himself                 Stand Up

2011      The Help              Mr. Blackly         

2011      Mangus!              Bruce Jackson   

2009      Rockabilly Baby                                 writer (play)

2012      Hollywood to Dollywood               Himself                

2012      Yahoo! News/Funny or Die GOP Presidential Online Internet Cyber Debate            Ron Paul             

2013      Southern Baptist Sissies                 Peanut

2014      Lucky Dog            Mr. Kaufman     

2017      A Very Sordid Wedding Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram           

2018      The Last Sharknado: It's About Time         Benjamin Franklin            Television film

2021      The United States vs. Billie Holiday           Reginald Lord Devine     

Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1986      The Fall Guy        Malone                

1986      The Wizard         Jimmy  

1987      CBS Summer Playhouse Worm  

1988      Frankenstein General Hospital    Iggy       

1988      Night Court         Irwin     

1989      Midnight Caller Little Bob Johnson          

1989      Murphy Brown Kyle       

1989      Newhart              L. Gardner          

1989      The People Next Door    Truman Fipps     10 episodes

1989      The Road Raiders             Whip     uncredited

1990      American Dreamer          Short    

1990      Babes    Clem     

1990      Pee-wee's Playhouse      Busby   

1990      Sugar and Spice                 Monsieur Jacques           

1991      Top of the Heap                Emmet Lefebvre               6 episodes

1992      Bodies of Evidence          Lemar Samuels 16 episodes

1992      Perfect Strangers             Rob Bob Phillips               

1992      Reasonable Doubts         Asst. Public Defender Clifford Sizemore

Marvin Sizemore              16 episodes

1993      Getting By           Mr. Bergner       

1993      Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Alan Morris / The Invisible Man

1993      Nurses Mr. Cooley Waits             

1993      Reasonable Doubts         Asst. Public Defender Clifford Sizemore 16 episodes

1994      Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman William Wallace Webster Waldecker / Resplendant Man                

1993–1995          Hearts Afire        Lonnie Garr         28 episodes

1995      Charlie Grace     Darnell Sims      

1995      Courthouse        Mr. Barnes         

1996      Coach    Blatt     

1996      Star Trek: Voyager           Kol          Episode: "False Profits"

1996      Mr. & Mrs. Smith              Earl Borden        

1997      Arli$$    Skip Lloyd           

1997      The Pretender   Pat        

1997      Weird Science    Boyd Butayne   

1997      Wings    Teddy Kolb         

1998      Buddy Faro         Frankie Delgado               

1998      Caroline in the City          Dr. Leslie             

1998      Dharma & Greg                 Kenny  

1998      Ellen      Top Studio Executive     

1998      Maximum Bob   Cletus Huntley  

1998      Pacific Blue         Bo Nyby              

1999      Martial Law        Horatio Hawkins              

2000      Any Day Now                    

2000      FreakyLinks         Hotel Clerk         

2000      Nash Bridges      Walter Marley  

2000      Sabrina, the Teenage Witch         Chuck   

2000, 2002          Son of the Beach              Jordan   2 episodes

2000      The Strip              Gaston

2001      Ally McBeal         Dr. Benjamin Harris        

2001–2002          Boston Public     Dr. Benjamin Harris         Recurring role; 5 episodes

2001–2006, 2017–2020                 Will & Grace       Beverley Leslie 12 episodes

2003      Judging Amy       Reginald Hoyt   

2003–2004          Reba      Terry (The jeweler from the rings)             Recurring role; 3 episodes

2003      Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales              Rog Monroe      

2004      George Lopez    Doctor

2004      Monk    Town Official     

2005–2006          American Dad! Beauregard LaFontaine voice actor; 2 episodes

2005      Boston Legal       Bernard Ferrion                Recurring role; 6 episodes

2005      Chasing Christmas            Past      

2007      Ugly Betty           Quincy Combs   Episode: "Punch Out"

2007      Hidden Palms     Jesse Jo                Recurring role; 5 episodes

2008      12 Miles of Bad Road      Kenny Kingman Recurring role; 6 episodes

2008      Privileged            Dale Dart            

2008      Sordid Lives: The Series Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram            10 episodes

2008      Under the Pink Carpet    Himself                 2 episodes

2009      Alligator Point                   

2009      Glenn Martin, DDS                           voice actor

2011      Desperate Housewives Felix Bergman   

2011      Shake It Up         Theodore Van Glorious

2011      Under the Pink Carpet    Himself                 2 episodes

2012      DTLA      Theatre Director              

2012      The Game                          

2012      Raising Hope      Reverend Bob   

2012      The Secret Life of the American Teenager                             

2013      American Horror Story: Coven    Quentin Fleming               Recurring role; 3 episodes

2013      Baby Daddy        Edwin the Mall Elf            Episode: "Emma's First Christmas"

2013      RuPaul's Drag Race          Himself                 Guest judge on Season 5, Episode 7

2013      Supernatural      Yorkie

Mutt      voice actor; Episode: "Dog Dean Afternoon"

2014      Partners               Marion Phillips Episode: "Jurist Prudence"

2014      Celebrity Big Brother UK                Himself                 Series 14, 12 episodes

2015      Benidorm            Buck A. Roo        Series 7, Episodes 1 & 2

2015      Con Man              Leslie Jordan / 'Curley'   Recurring role; 6 episodes

2016      Fear, Inc.              Judson

2016      American Horror Story: Roanoke               Ashley Gilbert (reenactor of Cricket Marlowe)     Recurring role; 3 episodes

2016      K.C. Undercover               Cecil B. DeVille

2017-2019          Living the Dream              Aiden   

2018–2019          The Cool Kids     Sid          Main role, 22 episodes

2019      American Horror Story: 1984       Courtney             Recurring role; 4 episodes

2021-Present     Call Me Kat         Phil         Main role; 31 Episodes

2021      The Great North               Thomas Wintersbone     Season 1 Episode 6: "Pride and Prejudice Adventure"

2021      Special Charles Season 2 Episode 7: "Why Is No One Ready?"

2021      The Masked Singer          Soft Serve/Guest panelist             Season 6 Episode 5: "Time Warp"

2022      RuPaul's Drag Race          Guest director   Season 14 Episode 12: "Moulin Ru: The Rusical"

2022      Trixie Motel        Himself                 Upcoming Episode

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