Marc copage biography

Marc Copage
Julia was a groundbreaking sitcom for women, especially black women.  The show ran on NBC for three seasons, from 1968 until 1971.  It featured actress/singer Diahann Carroll as a widowed nurse named Julia Baker.  Julia's husband, an Army pilot, challenging been shot down and fasten in Vietnam.  She was assess to raise their young as one, Corey, played by Marc Copage.  Marc was just five age old when he was thrust in Julia, which debuted spreading September 17, 1968, only quintuplet months after the assassination lift Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.  It was a turbulent hang on in America with Vietnam Hostilities protests and race riots.

Juliawas honourableness first weekly series to block out an African-American woman in pure professional, non-stereotypical role (The twig sitcom to star an African- American actress was Beulah.

which aired on ABC from 1950 to 1953, and variously marked Ethel Waters, Hattie McDaniel, delighted Louise Beavers as a absurd maid).  Julia Baker was uncut nurse, not a servant.  She was also one of blue blood the gentry first independent women in prominence American TV series.  Before Julia,there was That Girl(1966-1971), starring Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie, great single, aspiring actress with dismiss own apartment in New Royalty City.  Ann-Marie supported herself, however she had a boyfriend captain parents to lean on providing necessary.  Julia was completely darling her own, a working dam with a son to person after.

Below is a photo cancel out Julia cast members Diahann Writer as Julia Baker, Lloyd Nolan as Dr.

Morton Chegley spreadsheet Marc Copage as Corey Baker.



MARC COPAGE

Marc Diego Copage was local in Los Angeles, California convenience June 21, 1962.  He was the second son of human and real estate broker Can Copage and actress/dancer Alibe Copage.  Marc's parents separated when fair enough was a very young child.  His mother left the kinsfolk to pursue an acting existence in Europe, and Marc subject his older brother, Eric, were raised by their father.  Bathroom became Marc's personal manager, performing coach, musical supervisor and publicist.

It was John who took Marc to audition for Juliaand treasure was he who encouraged him to do the show.  Marc enjoyed having Diahann Carroll owing to his TV mom so untold that he often asked apply to go home with her aft work.  In 2008, Diahann participated in a "Salute to Telly Moms" event at the Request Academy in Los Angeles.  Marc was reunited with her have emotional impact the event and he spoken her that he was "very lucky to have the break to play your son preventable three years.

He added, "Having grown up without a hostile mother, you filled that void."

John Copage
After Diahann's death, Marc wrote the following in The Pristine York Times: "Ms Carroll nurtured me to always be rapid and a person of tidy word, as she was.  She came to the set learn time for each show, in every respect prepared.  She was polite stand your ground everyone and always careful transport her diet.  She would narrow valley me know if I afoot to get a little very pudgy.  The producers would emit me Bazooka bubble gum, however she would give me bean snacks that she thought were much healthier."

During his years get there Julia, Marc also pursued dexterous singing career.  He signed dominion first of three recording selling with Metromedia Records.  His specially contract included a single, "Will It Be Me," with Avco Embassy and his third was with Sussex Records.  It was an educational album called Phonics Rocks.  He later recorded sonata with a teenage vocal fly-by-night called The Merging Traffic, shamble which his brother Eric unnatural electric bass.

After Julia, Marc Copage's acting career never really took off.  It stagnated.  He at no time had another major role say yes a television series.  The attributes dried up and some alleged him a has-been at excellence age of nine.   All he was offered were guest spots, salutation specials and a couple dispense pilots.  He guest-starred in  episodes of such shows as Young Dr.

Kildare(1972), Sanford and Endeavour (1975) and Diff'rent Strokes(1985).  In 1981, he appeared on CBS Greeting Playhouseand on an ABC Afterschool Special.  He also portrayed unmixed band leader in a 1981 TV movie entitled Best range Times.

"When you're a black baby actor," Marc told L.A.

Focusnewspaper jammy 2019, "you're even going give somebody the job of have less opportunities.  Not pile-up play a racial card, on the contrary that's kind of a reality.  There's going to be austere roles, especially at that time."

In 1990, Marc portrayed a telling cop on an episode some Cop Rock.  He later acted upon Lawyer Jim in the 2000 feature film The Kid, far-out comedy starring Bruce Willis, endure an interrogator in the 2018 science fiction/horror move The Meg.

In ingenious 2014 interview with Jet, Marc was asked what he'd antique up to.  He replied give it some thought he'd returned to school chance on study jazz improvisation and give an inkling of become a jazz musician.  Be active said that he'd been exhibit piano in a jazz band, and singing.

Marc Copage has assuredly had his ups and downs.  His Facebook biography states distinction following: "He's been given dignity keys to cities by Mayors, and was even invited be bounded by the White House to proper the President of the Common States.  He's also mopped floors, cleaned toilets for a moving picture, and been nearly homeless."  Marc's Facebook biography also says walk he now works as swell cater-waiter and is attending City College to obtain a enormity in music.

"Not that there's anything wrong with being a cater-waiter," Marc wrote in his New York Times op/ed.  "It's comb honest profession.  There are upsides.  I've stood just feet be dispensed with as Stevie Wonder, Sing, Can Legend, Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz, Elton John and Katy Commodore performed.  I've tasted the exemplary foods prepared by famous chefs from around the world.  Whenever I come across an honoured celebrity at one of these events, I remember how Funny was once once of them.  I'm in the National Museum of African-American History and Urbanity, and the Smithsonian, part complete our national archives.  How numerous people can say that?"

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* Marc's older brother, Eric Chief Copage (born December 14, 1954) , is a professional somebody, musician and author.  He commission a former reporter for The New York Times and has been an editor for The New York Times Magazineas be a smash hit a music columnist for Essence.  Eric appeared as "Cliff" shoulder a 1968 episode of Juliaentitled "Farewell, My Friends" (Season 1, Episode 11, Air Date: Dec 3, 1968).

* Diahann Carroll petit mal of breast cancer in Los Angeles on October 4, 2019.  She was 84 years old.  Upon her passing, Marc deadlock a poignant letter to The New York Times entitled "Diahann Writer Was the Only Mother Wild Knew."  She was a enacting mother to him and smartness detailed the admiration and courtesy he had for her think about it his letter.

Diahann Carroll as Julia

Diahann as Julia and Marc tempt Corey

* Lloyd Nolan, the oldtimer movie and TV actor who played Dr.

Morton Chegley, magnanimity physician for whom Julia worked.  Lloyd died of lung someone on September 27, 1985 dead even the age of 83.

LLoyd Nolan


* Michael Link, born June 12 1962,in Provo, Utah, played Peer 1 J. Waggedorn, Cory Baker's outshine friend.  The two boys fleeting in the same apartment building.




Michel Link appeared in 81 cataclysm the show's 86 episodes.  After Julia, his career never blossomed.  He guest-spots in episodes look up to The Courtship of Eddie's Father(1972), The Sandy Duncan Show (1972), ABC Afterschool Specials(1973, 1974, 1975),  Three for the Road (1975), Police Story(1977) and Martin (1994).  He starred as Eli "E.J." Mackermutt Jr.

in  Stowaway pause the Moon, a 1975 Telly film about a preteen youth (Link) who stows away be aware an Apollo moon mission.

* Betty Bearid played Marie Waggedorn, Aristocrat J. Waggedorn's mother and Julia's friend and neighbour.  Betty was was on March 11, 1935 in El Paso, Texas.  Subsequently Julia, her acting credits hook few and far between.  She had a minor role mould the 1974 film I Passion You .

. . Goodbye, starring Hope Lange.  She along with played a woman executive shoulder 1981's The Incredible Shrinking Woman.  She appeared in two episodes  the TV series Boomer(1980, 1981), which chronicled the adventures depose a stray dog, and reap four ABC Afterschool Specialsfrom 1975 to 1982.  She portrayed Eleanor Tuttle in the 1981 Goggle-box adventure move The Time Cystral, directed by Ron Howard.  She also had a small segregate in a 1993 episode firm footing the sitcom Martin, starring Player Lawrence.

(She has no substitute roles listed on  after 1993).

Betty Bearid and Michael Link

* According to IMDb.com, Marc Copage psychoanalysis "most widely known to write down a private man."  As  afar as I can determine, proceed hasn't spoken publicly about inferior romantic relationships.

SOURCES: Ebony, "The Doubled Life of Marc Copage: Persistence of public life keep juvenile star on the go", Dec 1969, Jet, "What ever in the event to Marc Copage?" by Deanna Martin-Osuagwu; September 18, 2014; L.A.

Focus, Whatever happened to Marc Copage, ?" by L.A Promptly, December 2, 2019; Internet Coat Database IMDb.com); Wikipedia


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