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Though Reilly<\/a>‘s lengthy resume<\/a> had both a stage career (with Tony Award) and numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, my own recollections of him were as the nervous-nelly avaricious real estate owner Claymore Gregg on the TV version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir<\/a><\/em>, the main bad guy Hoodoo on the Sid & Marty Krofft Lidsville<\/a><\/em> (“How’s that for a topper?”), and the flamboyantly gay (though never identified as such) and clever perennial panelist (himself) on Match Game<\/a><\/em>.  He entertained at each role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though Reilly’s lengthy resume had both a stage career (with Tony Award) and numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, my own recollections of him were as the nervous-nelly avaricious real…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/disclosure.html","url_meta":{"origin":10891,"position":0},"title":"Disclosure","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jun-04 6:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"How much information is Too Much Information? 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