The show shares its similarities in the games played and its contestants, notably Wayne Brady.

He has had guest appearances in many films, including both Brady Bunch movies, in which he played Jan's female guidance counselor.

During this time, he also released a video follow up to Spinal Tap, played the villainous Mr. Dittmeyer in The Brady Bunch Movie, and played the boss Gibby in the HBO series Dream On.

* Brady Murray, played for the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, graduate of Shattuck-Saint Mary's

* Robert Reed, actor who played the father on the Brady Bunch

* Rob Petrie ( Robert Simpson Petrie ; played by Dick Van Dyke ) – Head comedy writer for a fictional New York television variety series called The Alan Brady Show.

* Christopher Knight, otherwise known as Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch, played Joanie's boyfriend on a Valentine's Day episode.

", Shirley's father Jack Feeney was played by Scott Brady ( who turned down the role of Archie Bunker on All in the Family ).

* Mike Lookinland, who played the youngest brother, Bobby Brady, on The Brady Bunch television series from 1969 until 1974, lived in San Pedro while a child actor.

Her high profile role on Dynasty also reunited her with actor Billy Dee Williams, who briefly played her onscreen husband Brady Lloyd.

* Mike Brady ( The Brady Bunch ), a character played by Robert Reed on the American TV program The Brady Bunch

Brady played college football for, and graduated from, the University of Michigan.

The following week, Brady again played well during the rematch at Indianapolis, with a passer rating of 148. 3 in a 38 – 17 win.

However, Brady played much of the second half of the season with a shoulder injury, and New England head coach Bill Belichick has since indicated that if the Patriots had made the playoffs, Brady would not have been able to play in the first game due to that injury.

Brady played his best game of the year in Pittsburgh despite requiring intravenous treatment the previous night when he ran a temperature of 103 degrees.

Brady played well, leading a Super Bowl record-tying 96-yard touchdown drive to close the first half and at one point completing 16 passes in the row for a 20 / 23 mark partway into the third quarter, another Super Bowl record.

As a result, the team played several games at North Scott High School and Brady Street Stadium in 1993.

In early 1994, he played the role of Mike Brady in a musical version of The Brady Bunch, directed by fellow Second City member Bruce Pirrie.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

* Interview with Shirley Hillstrom ( now Sheri Freedman ), who played Charley the Messenger of the Sour Grapes Bunch

in 1971, the voice of Revs on Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, as Moe on The Robonic Stooges ( a role he previously played on The New Scooby Doo Movies ), and Shake on The CB Bears.

* Former Brady Bunch actors Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, and Susan Olsen played in the first syndicated season.

He was also in a short-lived sitcom called Day by Day and played Greg Brady in the Brady Bunch parody movies ( 1995 and 1996 ).

Upon arriving in California, Gary and Val ( Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark ) met their neighbors: Sid and Karen Fairgate ( played by Don Murray and Michele Lee ), the self-described “ neighborhood Brady Bunch .” Together, they had three teenaged children, Eric ( Steve Shaw ), Diana ( Claudia Lonow ) and Michael ( Patrick Petersen ).

He appeared on The Brady Bunch and in a Bewitched episode in 1969 he played a guard to the Giant's castle in Jack & the Beanstalk.

* Greg Brady ( Brady Bunch ), character in The Brady Bunch, a popular 1970s TV show, played by Barry Williams

Even if she did not play in any other films, she appeared in a few episodes of British soap “ The Wild Bunch ” in 1991 and from 1987 to 1992, the whole team played in a weird and loony sitcom called “ Pas de pitié pour les croissants ” ( Don ’ t mind the croissants ).

She played a thieving teacher in The Brady Bunch Movie, who was caught by Bobby Brady.

He played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob, one of the members of the criminal gang the Wild Bunch, led by One Two ( Gerard Butler ), on whom Bob has a crush.

One such Mafia syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon ( played by Harold Gould ), a character introduced in the fifth season.

He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).

One of Pickens ' most memorable television roles was an episode of Hawaii Five-O where he played the patriarch of a family of serial killers.

He played a recurring character on Night Court, Bob Wheeler, patriarch of a rural family.

Starting with an appearance on the fourth season, the character had been meant as a semi-replacement patriarch from the series ' Jock Ewing played by Jim Davis, who had recently died.

He also played Desmond LaRochette in Robert Whitlow's The List, and Irish patriarch Enda Doyle in Red Roses and Petrol ( 2008 ).

* Madea's Witness Protection centers around Madea and her brother Joe ( both played by Tyler Perry, himself ) dealing with a wealthy white family living in their home, when the nerdy patriarch, George Needleman ( Eugene Levy ) has to enter the witness protection program after being framed for a Ponzi scheme and a Mafia family is out to kill him.

This evidence has helped to strengthen the view of some scholars, such as A. E. Vacalopoulos, who see these references, combined with a reevaluation of Byzantium's classical past, to be the genesis of Greek nationalismWith the loss of Constantinople, this comparison played on the idea of " hellenes surrounded by barbarians ; Choniates equated the Seljuk sultan killed by Theodore I with Xerxes, and patriarch Germanos II recalled the victory of John III Vatazes as another battle of Marathon or Salamis. In much the same way, Theodore II Laskaris compared his father's victories to those of Alexander the Great and proceeded to extol the martial values of contemporary “ Hellenes ”.

In 2006, Chase was given the role of Rhonda Volmer in the HBO drama series Big Love which centers on a polygamist family and its patriarch, Bill Henrickson, played by Bill Paxton.

Bardas still played an active role in the early days of the regency, encouraging Theodora to abandon Iconoclasm for good and taking part in the investigations that led to the deposition of the pro-iconoclast patriarch John the Grammarian and the restoration of the veneration of icons in 843.

* Father ( played by Roy Dotrice )-A man who is loved and respected as the patriarch of the Tunnel World.

He was well known as the Williams family patriarch, Uncle Tonoose, on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy, a role he played for 13 years.

From 1979 until late 2007, he played the protective Texan patriarch Asa Buchanan on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live.

Edward's father is played by John Houseman as the thoughtful, well-to-do patriarch and industrialist whose demeanor starkly contrasts with Edward's and seems more similar to Ricky's ( at first ).

In 1972, he was cast as Zebulon Walton, the family patriarch on The Waltons, a role he took over from Edgar Bergen, who played the character in the pilot.

The family patriarch, Brian Harper ( played by Sheehan ) was a college roommate of Steven Keaton ( Michael Gross ).

She had a recurring role on the CBS legal drama The Defenders ( 1961 – 1965 ) as the fiancee of Kenneth Preston ( played by Robert Reed ), partner in the father-and-son law firm led by patriarch Lawrence Preston ( E. G.

He was also the patriarch of the Kapoor family of Hindi films, five generations of which family, beginning with him, have played active roles in Hindi film industry.

The miniseries stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as the Jacksons ' patriarch Joseph Jackson, Angela Bassett as the family matriarch Katherine Jackson, Alex Burrall, Jason Weaver and Wylie Draper played Michael Jackson in different eras, while Bumper Robinson and Terrence Howard played Jackie Jackson in different eras, Angel Vargas played Tito Jackson, Margaret Avery as Katherine's mother Martha Scruse, Holly Robinson Peete as Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams as Berry Gordy and Vanessa L. Williams as Suzanne de Passe.

John Cowley, who played the patriarch of the family, Tom Riordan was from real farming stock in Ardbraccan in County Meath and many of the issues his character had to deal with reflected his own life experiences in rural Ireland.

Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride.

Fowley played the elderly patriarch in a family of gun-toting women who needed no male assistance.