Max Gail of Barney Miller interview - Breaking It Down with Frank MacKay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Actor Max Gail, perhaps best known as "Wojo" from the classic hit TV sitcom "Barney Miller," is interviewed by host Frank MacKay for the nationally syndicated radio show "Breaking It Down," heard at 2pm eastern on weekdays on LI News Radio, 103.9-FM, or online at this URL - player.tritondi...
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Wonderful actor, wonderful guy. A real down to earth gentleman.
Every person who contributed to Barney Miller, from the writers to the actors, made this a show that is unlike any "cop show" that are shown on the 3 network stations today. Barney Miller was a classic show.
I watch Barney Miller every day on FETV. Love it! Thanks for talking with Max.
nice interview - it was really cool for Wojo to speak honestly and sincerely - I so much appreciate the humor he provided in Barney Miller - It has helped many of us during hard times - thanks for this great interview
Great interview with Max Gail. I'm a big fan of his. Hope there will a part two interview with him soon.
Always enjoyed his work on Barney Miller. Grew up watching this show.
What a fabulous interview! What a remarkable person Max Gail is and he is a wonderful actor!
My daughter and I love the older shows and watch them via TH-cam, rather than current television shows. My daughter left the business when she decided on college and now has a PHD. Times change and people change and it all works out.
Max Gail seems very intelligent and is a delight to listen to. We just love Barney Miller!
One of the best shows ever,
Barney Miller was such a fabulous program. That cast was superb beyond belief. To members of the cast who have left us.... May you all RIP. God Speed
Max you’re a wonderful role model for resiliency - and an excellent actor that crafted a very intriguing WoJo by combining both an explosive temper, yet liberal heart and did it perfectly 👍👏👏
Wojo was very interesting because of the contradictions to his character: He was a huge guy with an explosive temper yet was often the most sensitive and wore his heart on his sleeve; he had a conservative\old fashioned stance on morality issues and fought in Vietnam yet had a liberal\tree hugging side to him; A good looking player type yet a hopeless romantic who was truly lonely and looking for someone to share his life with. A very complicated, complex, lovable and hilarious character so well played by Gail.
Vietnam, not Korea.
But yes Gail seems a lot like Wojo.
@Paul Neighbors Thanks, I mix them up sometimes for some odd reason lol.
I liked Barney Miller as a kid in the 70s. I rediscovered the show online appreciate how great it really was. Wojo was my favorite. Interesting interview
Barney Miller always had sincerity and respect, qualities sadly lacking in new shows.
Great interview and philosophy Max.
Brilliant man.
Love you Max Gail. God bless you and your family.
which god
what a smart, funny show. My favorite character changes so often. I waste way too much time on youtube watching episodes!
During these perpetual lockdowns we all are having i watched all 171 episodes back to back allowing for a little sleep in between haha. All actors on this show were tailor made for each other. Interesting to note that the show had many real life cops glued to the series because they could relate. Hopefully more class material like this will emerge.
Before Barney Miller I remember seeing Max Gail in an episode of Psych and NCIS but never even heard of him. When I discovered Barney Miller this past year I barely recognized him because he had hair and was a huge dude on that show lol. Since then though I fell in love with the show and with Max Gail as Wojo. A great character with depth and contradictions to his personality that made him so well rounded. Love the characters on the show because you can easily psychoanalyze each and every one of them like real people
Check out the movie "Heartbreakers" with Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso, 1984. He has a supporting role in it. It's a good film, overlooked.
@kennethlatham3133 Thanks for the rec!
He was awfully cute and a really good actor. Love his midwestern accent.
Todd Bridges must have lived in my neighborhood in Santa Monica in the mid 90s because I ran into him every day at a restaurant called Cora's. It really freaked me out running into someone from one of my favorite shows as a kid. I've met bigger celebrities, but that was way different.
The live format used by Frank MacKay elicited great replies by Max Gail instead of cookie-cutter junk favored by drive by interviewers. The icing on the cake for me was Max Gail's volunteering experiences and stories while trying to be respectful.
Wonderful interview!
I once saw him guest star on the modern incarnation of Hawaii 5-0.
That tall actor didn't actually die, they just thought he was dead for a bit. He was an attorney/flasher. Lol
remember when his character came back to help out a fellow flasher? and he RIPPED his coat open? 🤣
@@user-yi3so3ox1e Yep. 🤣
I always wondered what Gum brand he chewed!!
His real voice is much different from Wojo's. Wojo sounded kind of dumb. Good actor!
This guy doing the interview didn't do his homework "Ron silver" ????
Well... He knew what he meant, but we all have moments where we forget someone's name, or have confused them with another person. It's called "in the heat of battle". And sometimes the interview takes a different turn than you planned on, and you have to improvise in the moment. As a result, your thoughts or responses aren't always what you would have said if they were carefully scripted. Max realized that and provided a name, as did the interviewer shortly afterward (i.e., Paul Peterson, former child actor, who played Donna Reed's son on "The Donna Reed Show"). Give it time, it will happen to you, too. In case you weren't aware, Mr. Peterson and several other child actors banded together to form an organization that helps protect former child actors from their parents, managers and studios who robbed them or grossly underpaid them for their contributions to television series and films. Most of them had brief careers that ended when they stopped looking cute or adorable. As adults, most have had difficulty finding acting jobs and have had to either work behind the scenes in Hollywood, or leave altogether to begin different careers. It's been difficult for most, as their social skills, education and other useful traits were lacking compared to other job applicants.
I like this actor... couldn't be more truthful about the way Life... brings you so many Surprises !!!!!
Just when you think your on a path to a certain degree...
It flips on you so fast and then you got to go down another Street and it wasn't one that you obviously always can beat... !?!?
Sad to hear that his first wife had cancer and that he had a baby and being a single dad...
That is most everybody's nightmarish thought.. a illness that eventually leads to a sudden death on earlier. death.....
I can relate to some degree... been in some what of this position myself as a mom... And then no sooner I get out of an illness..
Like that wasn't bad enough...
I have CPS>>
(aka Child Protective Services}
Hunt me down because of being dependent on meds...Which in itself is enough to deal with and comprehend... but to have CPS try to break up your family while you're trying to tell them you're not the worst case scenario and that you still can handle being a mom.etc..
What happened was basically I reached out for help and end up with a hellish of a nightmare...
So if you want to listen to another story just listen to Senate Nancy Schaefer and her documentary the karate as nice as child protective services.. and then now the radio show host Alex Jones talking to her on the behalf of what CPS does to families... Especially if you're low income, sick or dependent on any type of drugs are substance... These people are ruthless and heartless, along with the judges ,court appointed attorneys and anyone else associated with this so-called CPS... They're not out to save families,
Just thought people should be aware of this...!!!
Sometimes I don't think we even Living in America so call the ,"freeland"
Thanks for the upload awesome!!!!!
Guy doing the interview leaves a lot to be desired-- zooming way off topic over and over. Max deserves a much better questioner
Same thing with that one Ron Glass interview at comic con 2014. Just a horrible interviewer. These talents deserve better.
Delray Bch... wow
They had many characters die on the show
he was a single mom.
The interviewer spent time on child actors, whereas he didn't ask about Jack soo and Dietrich or even Linden. Why not let him go on talking and then edit it to 2 parts?
I thought Wojo was so goofy and goofy-looking, but it was impossible not to like him! He seemed somewhat incompetent, but got the job done to the best of his ability.
I wouldn't say he was incompetent but just had a strong sense of right and wrong, which often was in conflict with procedures.
@@jackpoint188 well said
I clicked on thus expecting an in person interview not a phone interview. Bye!
And what a nice tail it was....oops
I like Max Gail, but I don’t like this interview. It’s all inside baseball which means nothing to the rest of us.