These two actors from The Dick Van Dyke Show got married in real life

They were married for almost 30 years.

The second episode of the fifth season of The Dick Van Dyke Show has a simple yet amusing premise. Called “A Farewell to Writing,” it revolves around Rob’s attempts to finish the novel he has always wanted to write. Actually, it mostly involves Rob trying to start the novel he has always wanted to write!

He gets distracted by every little thing, including gossip between Laura and Millie and the sound of the fridge defrosting. Laura suggests that he go off by himself where there will be no disruptions and he can work in peace.

Rob agrees and decides to stay in a friend’s secluded cabin. A local man, Horace, lets Rob into the cabin, making sure he’s not a “weirdo” like the nudist neighbors up the hill. Rob thinks he can finally get to work but finds even more ways to get distracted in the cabin than he did at home!

Character actor Guy Raymond plays the friendly but suspicious Horace. In addition to The Dick Van Dyke Show, Raymond was in Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Dennis the Menace, Green Acres, The Virginian, Mannix and The Beverly Hillbillies – just to name a few. He also played the man behind the bar who gets talked into buying a cute little alien fur ball at the beginning of the Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.”

While Raymond was in just one episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, and only in scenes with Van Dyke himself, he would later become very connected to the show via his personal life. In 1969, four years after he appeared on the show, he married a member of the cast!

Ann Morgan Guilbert, who plays the Petries’ friend and neighbor, Millie Helper, divorced her first husband in 1966. Guy Raymond’s first wife passed away a year later. Two years after that, both actors knew they were ready for a second marriage and decided to tie the knot.

Raymond and Guilbert were married for almost 30 years until Raymond’s death in 1997.

Though they probably didn’t know it, “A Farewell to Writing” brought these two future lovebirds together – if not in the same scene then at least in the same end credits!

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MeliAlexander 51 months ago
That is so cool! And I still can’t believe she plays Yetta on “The Nanny” :)
Eleanor 51 months ago
To bad dick van dyke is a lousy stinking drunk, I like the character not the person.
Krn 51 months ago
I thought he was In It’s A Wonderful Life but couldn’t find anything on line.
JamesDandy Krn 51 months ago
You might be thinking of actor William Edmunds from It's A Wonderful Life
Jon JamesDandy 51 months ago
William Edmunds played Mr. Martini, the bar owner. To me Guy Raymond looked & sounded a lot like the "It's a Wonderful Life" toll house keeper by the bridge who rescued George & Clarence from the water then ran out of the toll booth after Clarence scared him. An un-credited actor named Tom Fadden played that part. I first remember seeing Guy Raymond as the handyman in Disney's 1980 2-part show "Ghosts of Buxley Hall". He also played an apartment handyman in the 1964-65 series 90 BRISTOL COURT, where he appeared in all 3 separate segments until "Harris Against the World" and 'Tom, Dick & Mary" were cancelled, leaving just "Karen" as its own sitcom.

JamesDandy 51 months ago
Ken Berry and Jackie Joseph both appeared on the Dick Van Dyke show and were married in real life
JHP 51 months ago
For me all the characters on the show were very good

Even Dr Bombay chasing Laura :)
MrsPhilHarris 51 months ago
Millie was one of my fav TDVDS characters along with Jerry, Mel and Alan.
Krn MrsPhilHarris 51 months ago
I agree!
daDoctah 51 months ago
Raymond also played "Howard Hewes" on "Petticoat Junction", a farmer who Uncle Joe mistakes for the multi-millionaire with the soundalike name. Because of the mixup, everyone wants to curry favor with him as an investor for the flying service that Steve is starting up.
Mike daDoctah 51 months ago
Uncle Joe knew who was Hewes; Hooterville was so isolated that nobody there knew who was Hughes.
The mistake was made by Mr. Drysdale, crossing over from BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.
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