Eugene Roche

[Mrs. Higgins]

I remember watching his Ajax commercials growing up.

http://youtu.be/_NjQltJjyUU

[marlboro]

I watched the entire run of Star Trek: Voyager for the first time a few weeks ago. Eugene popped up in a pretty good episode called "Remember." Not a huge part, but it was well played, as always.

[T.Q.]

I watched “When a Man Loves a Woman” with Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan.

Saw Eugene and thought it was the Grampa from Blue Bloods for a second.

Nope... Realized it was Luther H. Gillis!

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

It is amazing how one appearance of a MPI guest star on another show brings back all the memories of MPI. My wife and I were just watching some reruns of All in The Family from 1978 and Eugene Roche was in one. He played a war buddy of Archie in a reunion of war buddies episode.

Hi KingKC,
Eugene played Pinky Peterson in 3 episodes of All in the Family. Pinky loved to play practical jokes on Archie. I remember one where at a convention at a hotel
Pinky convinces a spectacularly beautiful African American woman to go into Archie's bedroom - his buddies in the outer room looking on - where he is sleeping off a drunk, and get into bed with him as a prank.
She then wakes him up and purrs into his ear, convincing Archie they had had relations. Archie evolved during the series as he was basically a good person
who had been infected by his father's narrow views. So after trying to convince her to leave, that he was married and she was too young, at one point he says
"aw what the hell" and is ready to go for it. It was hysterical. I know it's impossible to effectively relate a comedy scene but if this episode is on it's well worth catching.
I read somewhere Roche along with O'Connor was part of a Hollywood Irish actors clique, a descendant of James Cagney's legendary gang of Irish acting pals.

[IslandHopper82]

Luther H. Gillis
Episodes with him are classics

[K Hale]

I have found that, at least for me, Luther is an accquired taste. The first time I saw him it was "what the..." Now I will pick out the episodes with LHG, just to see hime interact with Magnum.

I agree. There was a time when I could say I couldn't stand Luther or his episodes, but as MPS says, its an acquired taste. Especially if you take into account WHY he's there. I'll say I prefer him to Jim Bonnick by a long shot.

The A.A.P.I. Luther/Katsumoto scene is killer.

I found Luther very funny in that episode. Didn’t like him in his first episode, but have kinda warmed up to him in the ones after that.

Roche, like John Hillerman,was one of those actors who was in everything, but not that many people realize it.

[T.Q.]

Roche, like John Hillerman,was one of those actors who was in everything, but not that many people realize it.

Just saw Executive Decision from early 90s (?) on the idiot box.

Hey, there's Luther again!

[litefoot]

Roche penned a book of short stories about the people and events that touched his life, and fathered nine children, including three sons who became entertainers. Eamonn and Brogan Roche are actors, and Sean Roche is a writer and producer.

I've been searching for this book to no avail. There's no listing on Amazon. Does anyone know if it was actually published?