![]() In 1993, on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Also, the transmission of AIDS wasn't understood so he had to retire from basketball. Most thought that Johnson would die within a year or so. In 1991, the public was confused about the difference between HIV and AIDS (HIV is a virus that can lead to AIDS) and there was little treatment for either. In 1991, on November 7th, legendary basketball player Magic Johnson announced that he had HIV. In 1990, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex". The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. In 1982, in the year that Joe Luckinbill was born, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). He and Arnaz have frequently appeared together on stage and together produced the Emmy-winning special "Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie" (NBC, 1993).Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Joe's lifetime. Luckinbill has also been an instructor of acting for the State Department in Khartoum, Sudan, and the University of Rome, and at Queensborough Community College in Queens, New York.Formerly married to actress Robin Strasser, Luckinbill married singer-actress Lucie Arnaz. ![]() He also frequently does voice-over work in TV commercials and provides narrations for documentaries. Concentrating on his stage work, Luckinbill returned in the late 1980s, playing father to Elisabeth Shue in "Cocktail" (1988) and the messianic Vulcan Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989). In the late 70s, Luckinbill played the plastic surgeon who interferes in the relationship between Stephen Collin and Kathleen Quinlan in the soap opera "The Promise" (1979). After his debut in "The Boys in the Band," he was the husband whose little black book is discovered by Dyan Cannon when he has to go to the hospital in "Such Good Friends" (1971). Luckinbill's feature film work has been infrequent and somewhat clustered. In miniseries, Luckinbill was Major Richard Arnold in support of "Ike" (ABC, 1979) and narrated "Space" (CBS, 1985). He also won praise for his one-man show "Lyndon Johnson" (PBS, 1988), in which he later toured onstage. He was the governor of New Jersey in "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" (NBC, 1976) and Senator Bob Matthias, leading the congressional support for a Vietnam War Memorial in "To Heal a Nation" (NBC, 1988). That same year, he played Cloris Leachman's husband in "Death Sentence" (ABC), the story of a woman called to jury duty who, in hearing the evidence in a murder case, begins to realize her own husband is the killer. Luckinbill made his longform debut with "Murder Impossible" (ABC, 1974). ![]() His more memorable guest stints include an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS, 1975), as Mary's current beau whose son she just can't stand. He began making guest appearances on primetime in 1968 with an episode of "NYPD" (CBS) and earned his own series with "The Delphi Bureau" (ABC, 1972-73), in which he was the head of a super-secret government agency. ![]() From 1967-68, he was Frank Carver on "The Secret Storm" (CBS), and later appeared as Steve Prescott on "Where the Heart Is" (CBS, 1969-70). Like many New York-based actors, Luckinbill broke into TV with roles on soap operas. Among his more notable roles were the title role of "Galileo" at the McCarter Theatre in 1965 and Biff in a 1965 American Conservatory Theatre production of "Death of a Salesman." Among the actors better-known Broadway appearances are as the bisexual Brian in Michael Cristofer's award-winning "The Shadow Box" (1977) and George Schneider, a widower playwright based on Neil Simon in Simon's "Chapter Two" (1979). In 1963, he made his Broadway debut as Will Roper, the would-be son-in-law of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons." In addition to appearing in the US national tour of that show, Luckinbill spent many years working around the country at several prestigious theater companies. He made his off-Broadway debut playing the Old Shepherd in a Carnegie Playhouse production of "Oedipus Rex" in 1959. After serving as a first lieutenant in the US Army Chemical Corps in the mid-1950s, the Arkansas native earned an MFA from Catholic University before migrating to New York to study with Uta Hagen.
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