A Personal and Intimate Interview With Billy Gray, Bud From Father Knows Best At His Home!

A Personal and Intimate Interview With Billy Gray, Bud From Father Knows Best At His Home!
Billy talks with John about how Father Knows Best started as a show, what Robert Young was like when the cameras weren't rolling, Robert Young gripping him hard in scenes, how he teased Elinor Donahue while she was filming takes and how the producers cheated him out of his agreed upon weekly salary. Billy discusses his very special relationship with Jane Wyatt, his relationship today with Elinor Donahue and Lauren Chapin, his childhood friendship with Robert Blake, Dean Stockwell Russ Tamblyn and how Bobby Driscoll changed his life. Billy talks about the financial issues around the reunion movies, filming Jim Thorpe All American and so much more. Also, be sure to watch the rest of the interview with Billy in the next That's Classic! episode. Enjoy! Appreciate you Billy!

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00:00 Introduction
00:59 Billy talks about how Father Knows Best came about and why the ? was dropped from the title
02:59 Was Robert Young involved in casting Billy as Bud
04:13 Billy talks about how he was not paid the weekly salary that he was originally promised
06:56 Billy talks about Robert Young as a man
08:09 Billy talks about how hard Robert Young would hold on to him in certain scenes
08:53 Billy talks about his special relationship with Jane Wyatt
11:51 Billy chats about asking Elinor Donahue out on a date
12:25 Billy talks about how professionally they shot Father Knows Best
13:44 Billy jokes about how he would tease Elinor Donahue off set during a take
14:08 Billy talks about his relationship with Lauren Chapin through the years
15:09 Billy talks about what things were like off set on Father Knows Best
17:41 Other shows shooting around the studio where they shot Father Knows Best
18:48 Billy chats about Dean Stockwell
20:16 Billy talks about his friend Russ Tamblyn from Peyton Place and his own medical issue
22:06 Great story about Robert Blake
24:29 Billy talks about how Bobby Driscoll changed his life
26:10 Billy discusses issues he had with the reunion movies of Father Knows Best
31:07 Billy's relationship today with Lauren and Elinor
32:58 Billy discusses his tryout for Rebel Without a Cause
33:23 Billy talks about seeing himself in the Humphrey Bogart film "In a Lonely Place"
36:53 Billy talks about how he started out as an actor
38:32 Billy chats about his mother's acting career
40:00 Billy and his Mom were in the Abbott and Costello movie "The Killers"
41:35 Billy talks about working on Jim Thorpe All American
43:16 Father is a Bachelor with William Holden