Our Creative Legacy: Actors

  • Michael Cooke
  • Osanna Phyllis Love
  • Peter Mark Richman
  • Pilar Walsh
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Michael Cooke

Author, Actor, Jazz Pianist

Michael Cooke

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Osanna Phyllis Love

Osanna Gooding, a long-time member and helper in Subud Los Angels, was also an award winning American actress known to millions as Phyllis Love.  Osanna passed away in November 2011, due to complications with Alzheimers disease, but fortunately, her story had begun to be documented in 1993. May thanks to Alan Gooding and fellow Subud member and actor, Peter Mark Richman — who co-starred with Osanna in William Wyler’s film, Friendly Persuasion, — for putting together this tribute film.

As you will learn, the young Phyllis Love went to high school with Cloris Leachman, attended what became Carnegie Mellon, and studied at the Actors Studio along with Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Stanley, and others.

Her first break was as Julie Harris’ understudy in Carson McCullers’ play, The Member of the Wedding. She went on to star in the original Broadway productions of The Rose Tattoo, Bus Stop, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The Country Girl, and others.

Osanna married twice. First to playright, James McGee, and later to Alan Gooding. She came to Subud in 1959 when John Bennett came to New York.

Read The New York Times obitiuary here.

The film, on our SICA You Tube channel, is in 8 reels.  Click on the image above to start.   Enjoy.

Osanna Phyllis Love Gooding, Part One
Peter Mark Richman Hatful of Rain

Peter Mark Richman

Actor, Painter, Author

Photo: Richman in Michael V. Gazzo‘s play
A Hatful of Rain (1957)

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Tributes to Peter Mark Richman

Peter Mark Richman

April 16, 1927 – January 14, 2021

Excerpt from Memories of Peter Mark Richman, by Howard Richman

A true Renaissance man, Peter Mark Richman leaves a legacy of creative endeavors spanning over eight decades of work in the performing and visual arts. However, it was for his marriage to actress Helen Richman and for his roles as father and grandfather of which he was most proud.

The son of Benjamin, a painting and paper-hanging contractor and Yetta Dora (Peck), Mr. Richman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 16, 1927. After graduating from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science as a licensed pharmacist in two states, he found his first opportunities on the New York stage as a member of the Actors Studio, starring in Calder Willingham’s “End as a Man.” In addition to tours and productions across the U.S., he appeared on Broadway in “A Hatful of Rain” and “Masquerade” and portrayed Jerry in over 400 performances of Edward Albee’s original NY production of “The Zoo Story.”

William Wyler brought him west for the classic film, “Friendly Persuasion,” which led to other films such as “Black Orchid,” “The Strange One,” “Naked Gun 2 ½” and “Friday the 13th Part 8.” He starred as Nick Cain in his own NBC series, “Cain’s Hundred,” and in over 500 TV guest star appearances on such shows as “The Twilight Zone,” “The Outer Limits,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Fantasy Island,” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” He had recurring roles on “Three’s Company” (as the Reverend Snow) and “Beverly Hills 90210” as well as co-starring roles on series such as “Dynasty” and “Longstreet.” ANTA and the Actors Studio produced several of his one-act plays and, after mounting his critically-acclaimed one-man play, “4 Faces,” in Los Angeles and New York, he starred in the film version of the piece. His play, “A Medal for Murray,” received its world premiere with the Beit Lessin Theatre in Israel, garnering raves throughout the country during its two-year run. Published novel and short-story collections in Mr. Richman’s catalog include “Hollander’s Deal” and “The Rebirth of Ira Masters.” Also an accomplished painter, Mr. Richman had seventeen critically acclaimed one-man exhibitions.

Mr. Richman served as a long-time board member for several charities and, in 1990, the Motion Picture and Television Fund awarded the Silver Medallion to him for outstanding humanitarian achievement. He was also honored in that year with the Sybil Brand Humanitarian Award from the Jeffrey Foundation.

In Mr. Richman’s own words from his autobiography, I Saw A Molten White Light: “God has been good to me, in everything. Through all the struggle and suffering, progress has been made…God put this sacred and mysterious place inside all of us — our inner life or soul — that has the capacity to come alive again — to wake up from its sleepy torpor once the button is pushed for the door to open. And when the door is open, most of the time the sun is warm, and the birds are singing — and all things are possible. 

Pool Hall Junkies Peter Mark Richman
After the Wizard Peter Mark Richman
RIP Peter Mark Richman, Three’s Company Actor
4 FACES – Excerpt – 2. Carlo
Pilar Walsh - Actor, Author, Filmmaker

Pilar Walsh

Actress, Author, Filmmaker
List of Performances

Pilar Walsh 

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Bio: Pilar Walsh, a SAG-AFTRA actress, singer, dancer, writer, filmmaker, producer and mother of four, has worked for many years in TV, film, and stage. Some highlights in the past few years were playing Liza Minnelli on MAD-TV, performing opposite Ken Page in Man of La Mancha with Broadway Austin, working on the Indie film Dog Barks opposite Michael Costello and dancing and singing in Bernstein’s MASS, Cabaret, Pippin and The Musical of Musicals in Hawaii. She worked with Alec Baldwin and Annette Bening on Running With Scissors and Kathy Najimi on Hope Floats and a half-dozen independent films along the way. She performed her own Cabaret Show in Seattle and Los Angeles, “Mostly Sondheim and a Little Lloyd- Weber” and still dances having worked 3 times on the Howie Mandel TV show Mobbed and most recently as an actor on a short film Sober in Los Angeles. She self-published a book of poetry Essentials: workds, rhymes and a story or two, and has her poems published in two poetry anthologies, Circle Dance and The God’s Eye.

In 2008, she moved to the other side of the camera with a documentary film The Eternal Rhythm – a Global Revelation of Drum, Dance and Song still in progress, and to promote her screenplay, she wrote, produced and co-directed a “showcase reel” of How I Survived the Sixties a hopefully, soon to be feature film. She is a recipient of the Actors Fund Teaching Artist Institute Certification. She lived in New York in 2012, performing at Symphony Space/Bar Thalia her own Cabaret set and at the Women’s Worldwide Initiative Anniversary Event as a guest artist. She moved to Wilmington, NC, and since coming to a place the locals affectionately call Wilmywood, she made a short film, I Was a Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie, was cast in the play ‘Night Mother for the Cape Fear Playhouse, published her book How I Survived the Sixties and completed writing a screenplay, Trolley to Lumina, which she hopes to also produce. She is currently residing in Los Angeles. In 2014, she will be hosting the California Regional Congress Friday Night Film Fest and is working closely with Michael Menduno on the Susila Dharma Production for the World Congress in Puebla along with finishing up her BA for Performing Arts with St. Marys College in Moraga’s LEAP (liberal education for arts professionals) program created exclusively for ex- and current professional dancers. She also attempts to spend as much time with her grown children (when they are in town) and grandchildren with whom she is very proud.

Pilar Walsh is a long time Subud member, a resident of Los Angeles and after working on stage, films and TV shows for most of her life, in 2008, she decided to go to college for the first time and discovered, when having to put together a documentary as a senior project, she fell in love with filmmaking. She is hoping to complete in the next year the doc, The Eternal Rhythm- a Global revelation of Drum, Dance and Song and is working to bring to life 3 screenplays, “How I Survived the Sixties” already a book and 9:13 sizzle reel, “Trolley to Lumina” a feature film with lots of great dancing and music from the 20’s, and “Hannah” a short story written by Pilar adapted to a screenplay. Recently, she has made trailers for these screenplays/films and a short film “I Was A Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie” working with college kids in North Carolina last year.

Trolley to Lumina: Dancing at the Palace of Light

How I Survived the 60’s

Essentials: Giving Birth to Words, Rhymes and a Story or Two

How I Survived the Sixties, by Pilar Walsh
Essentials: Giving Birth to Words, Rhymes and a Story or Two, by Pilar Walsh
Trolley to Lumina Dancing at The Palace of Light by Pilar Walsh
Creativity Inisde and Out

Here is a peek at what’s coming next on “Creativity Inside And Out”. Pilar Walsh talks about her days dancing and performing and her latest projects which are incredibly beautiful books/screenplays that she has written. And, she’ll show us how she makes jewelry. I’m in awe, she is so multi-talented!!!