#and Morgan Freeman on the Electric Company

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I can't find the story, but I remember back in the day when celebrity promos were less common, some bozo asked why a respected actor like Jones was recording Yellow Pages ads. He responded with a twinkle in his eye and that divine voice, "They pay me money."

edit: here's a Sesame Street episode from my childhood that starts with one of James Earl Jones' guest appearances.

Ah shit.

[forever70s]

Morgan Freeman on the children's tv show, "The Electric Company" (1971)

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Morgan Freeman - The Electric Company (1972)

[couldtheycatchkira]

[lamardeuse]

I feel like you're dating yourself if your first memory of Morgan Freeman is as Easy Reader

[valentinsylve]

and on The Electric Company we had Morgan Freeman as Count Dracula

I was like 3 years old at the time but feast on how um hot he was?

last but not least, Vincent the Vegetable Vampire!

its awesome theres a vampire on sesame street because you need to introduce children to the concept as early as possible

[yranigami]

Electric Company PBS 1974

[culturevulturette]

What happened to Brenda? What's the guy on the phone's relationship to her? I think we've got a very dark subtext lurking just beneath the main plot here...

[subnautica-reviews]

The funniest thing about this video is that half the comments are people with nostalgia for this show and the other half are referencing the family guy joke parodying this.

[retroclixs]

The Electric Company (1971)

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If you're a child of the late 60s or early 70s, you probably experienced serious deja vu when you first saw Morgan Freeman in a movie as an adult.

No, it wasn't your mind playing tricks, you just remembered him from The Electric Company!

[madamlaydebug]

Happy 87th Birthday to Morgan Freeman.

Born June 1, 1937, He is an actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres.

He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children’s television series The Electric Company. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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Morgan Freeman as the DJ, in the children’s TV series ‘Electric Company’, 1971

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Morgan Freeman Plays a Singing Vincent the Vegetable Vampire in 1970s Episode of 'The Electric Company'

[kcyars99]

Happy 87th Birthday to Morgan Freeman

Born | June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Throughout a career spanning five decades and multiple film genres, American actor, producer, and narrator Morgan Freeman has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. He has also been awarded the Kennedy Centre Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi, where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. In 1978, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Zeke in the Richard Wesley play The Mighty Gents.

Freeman received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). His other Oscar-nominated roles are in Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009). Other notable roles include Glory (1989), Lean on Me (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Unforgiven (1992), Se7en (1995), Amistad (1997), Gone Baby Gone (2007), and The Bucket List (2007). He also portrayed Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and starred in the action films Wanted (2008), Red (2010), Oblivion (2013), Now You See Me (2013), and Lucy (2014).

Known for his distinctive voice, he has narrated numerous documentary projects including The Long Way Home (1997), March of the Penguins (2005), Through the Wormhole (2010–2017), The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016–2019), Our Universe (2022) and Life on Our Planet (2023). He made his directorial debut with the drama Bopha! (1993). He founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary in 1996 where he produced numerous projects including CBS political drama Madam Secretary from 2014 to 2019.

Photo | Morgan Freeman, Beverly Hills, California, 2017 Photo © Smallz & Raskind

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