Anson Williams and Sharon Scott Williams

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Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

He will be forever known as Potsie from Happy Days, but his memories of that much-loved TV series are all positive, especially his relationship with the show’s creator Garry Marshall. Having begun in the theater and turned director (with dozens of TV shows to his credit) he is now piloting his wife’s new play Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness at the celebrated Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California. It’s based on her own experience living with a mother who suffered from severe mental illness. Linda Purl plays 16 roles in this provocative one-woman show. Details are at www.rubicontehatre.org Anson also shares some of his earliest show-business encounters with Leonard and Jessie.

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0:29.6	Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton.
0:36.6	And I'm Jesse Malton. Our And I'm Jesse Moulton.
0:38.3	Our guest today is a very familiar face and named Anson Williams.
0:43.3	He's joined by his wife today, Sharon Scott Williams, because together they have created this play.
0:50.3	But obviously he has had an incredible career and we're so excited to hear his stories.
0:57.6	Hello.
0:58.5	It's one of those things that fascinates me, pop culture and the ways in which it weaves itself and how something that could be such a small part of your life, wherever that is.
1:11.6	So my experience with it is kids watching him at night because entertainment came on,
1:17.6	entertainment tonight came on before they had to go to bed.
1:19.6	So a lot of my friends associate my dad's face with, oh, it's bedtime.
1:24.6	You know, the idea that you're a part of this show
1:28.1	that has lived on in a pretty phenomenal way.
1:31.9	And so many of the people involved
1:34.3	have continued working and continued working successfully,
1:37.0	whether it's behind or in front of the camera.
1:41.3	What an experience.
1:42.9	Well, that's really because of our mentor, our godfather, Gary Marshall, did we luck out getting our first big gig with that man?
1:53.0	He wanted to be a teacher one time.
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