Richard Gilliland (Jonesy) has died.

[Brenda]

Richard Gilliland Dies: Veteran Actor In ‘Designing Women’, ‘Thirtysomething’ & Dozens Of Other Shows Was 71.
He died March 18, 2021.

R.I.P. Jonesy, 1950-2021

[patriciaanne]

So sorry to hear this. 😪 He was a relatively young man.

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Mar 25, 2021 14:44:58 GMT -5 patriciaanne said:

So sorry to hear this. 😪 He was a relatively young man.

The more I age, the younger people older than me seem. 

[noplacelikehome]

Very sad. He was very young.

[nedandres]

Yes, very sad. I wrote to him a couple years ago but never received a reply. He had a vast body of work as an actor!!!

[Brenda]

Here is a better article about him on the MeTV website.

R.I.P. Richard Gilliland, actor on 'Designing Women' and 'The Waltons'

[Kyle]

I always liked him. He had a career that most actors would envy, but he never got the big TV role that I think his talent warranted. He did lots of pilots and short-lived series, but was never in the right place at the right time. Margaret Colin is another one like that - she should be a well-known TV star but it never quite worked out for her.

[Johnny]

Mar 25, 2021 16:08:47 GMT -5 noplacelikehome said:

Very sad. He was very young.

Yes he was . For perspective, he was born only one year before Richard Thomas.

[willie]

I don't feel that 71 is young.

Is it really?

RIP Jonesy.

[Kyle]

71 seems old when you’re 20. It seems a lot less old when you’re 50. And it is less than the male life expectancy in the US.

[Johnny]

18 seemed really old to me when I was 8.   It comes down to perspective.  

[sdw]

I'm almost 61 and I don't look my age

[Easton]

^ I'm 69 years old and I don't look my age, either. I look much older.

[JessicaGirlSpy]

Mar 30, 2021 14:19:43 GMT -5 Easton said:

^ I'm 69 years old and I don't look my age, either. I look much older.

I'm 14, almost 15 and a freshman in high school  (9th grade)and strangers think I'm about 12 and either in 6th or 7th grade. I still get carded for bubble gum😀

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Mar 30, 2021 12:03:23 GMT -5 sdw said:

I'm almost 61 and I don't look my age

I am going to be 90 and I do not look it...