TV's 'Ernie' finds roles as an adult
(1960), Filmed in a unique way on the sitcom, which ran from 1960 to ’72. He worked two months a year with the cast, which also starred Don Grady as middle son Robbie; then, the other actors spent the rest of the year shooting their close-ups and scenes without MacMurray.“We shot from 10 to 12 scripts a day,” Livingston said. “Before you even started production, 10 complete scripts would arrive on your doorstep. You would shoot nothing but a master shot and MacMurray’s close-up, and then you would move on to the next scene. It was an all-MacMurray experience.”
At the end of the season, he said, there would be a frantic grab to get all of the remaining scenes.
“You would sit at the kitchen table all day long, and they would do close-ups,” he recalled, laughing. “You would be sitting at the same place at the same table, and you would do a close-up from 12 to 15 different episodes. All you would do was change your shirt because they couldn’t see anything below.”
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He's had roles in "Mad Men," last year's acclaimed "The Social Network," Ben Affleck's new film "Argo," which will be released next year, and, in a real change of pace for him, as a torturer in the upcoming horror film "Hostel: Part III.
