Patrick Adiarte, the dancer and actor born in the Philippines who appeared in The king and me And Flower drum song on Broadway and the big screen and played a recurring role on CRUSHis dead. He was 82 years old.
Adiarte died on Tuesday in a pneumonia hospital in the Los Angeles region, said her niece, Stephanie Hogan, The Hollywood Reporter.
When Brady Bunch I went to Honolulu for a family vacation in a three -part episode that launched the fourth season of the ABC series in 1972, Adiarte played a construction goofing that gives children a tour before meeting all kinds of chaos after Bobby (Mike Lookinland) discovered a small idol from Tiki who could be cursed.
Adiarte was also a popular dancer in the NBC 1965-66 Musical Varieties series BloomWhere he started a short song career with the pop “Five differences” song.
In 1952, Adiarte joined the distribution of Broadway from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Lege The king and meWith Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence, as one of the royal children, then made a tour with production across America.
When the musical was adapted by 20th Century Fox in 1956, he graduated from the role of Prince Chulalongkorn, the son of Rita Moreno’s Tuptim. Brynner also played in the film, and Adiarte would consider him as a substitution father.
For Flower drum songAlso from Rodgers & Hammerstein and directed by Gene Kelly, Adiarte was thrown in 1958 as a second Americanized and Americanized Wise Wang San, and he sang “You be the rock, I will be the roll” with Pat Suzuki as a interpret of Nightclub Linda Linda. He then returned to the 1961 universal film that featured Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta.
CRUSH Fans know Adiarte under the name of Ho-Jon, the Korean orphan home that helped Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and the trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) on seven episodes of the first season (1972-73) of the CBS series. His character probably leaves to attend a medical school in the United States.
Patrick Adiarte flanked by Mike Lookinland (left) and Christopher Knight on “The Brady Bunch” in 1972.
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Patrick Robert Adiarte was born in Manila on August 2, 1942. He, his sister, Irene, and their mother, Purita, were imprisoned by the Japanese on the island of Cebu in February 1945 during the Second World War. Irene, then 5 years old, and Patrick, then 2 years old, were burned when the Japanese launched grenades on them when the family tried to escape.
A month later, their father, working as captain for the US Army Corps of Engineers, was killed.
In June 1946, the family came to New York via Ellis Island so that Irene could have what would be the first of several surgeries to eliminate the vast scars on her face caused by the pomegranate fire.
While the Adiarts faced threats of deportation, Patrick (and his mother, as a dancer) The king and me. (With the help of Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy, the Congress finally granted American citizenship in February 1956.))
After his work on stage The king and mePatrick studied at the school of professional children, where his classmates included Liza Minnelli and Marvin Hamlisch.
While promoting Flower drum song in 1958 with an appearance on the NBC variety show OmnibusHe and Kelly have demonstrated how the dance of the taps had evolved over the years, with Kelly proclaiming: “If there will be another Fred Astaire, I think it could as well be Pat.”
Kelly also helped him dance a job on Italian television for about a year.
Adiarte played the student TJ Padmanagham in the comedy back to school made by Blake Edwards High time (1960), with Bing Crosby, Fabian and Tuesday Weld, was then another prince in an ABC adaptation of 1961 of The enchanted hazelnutWith Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence.
Later he would appear in the Shirley Maclaine with John Goldfarb, please go home! (1965) – He portrayed a prince from the Middle East and a son of the character of Peter Ustinov – and on episodes of You need a thief,, Ironic,, Bargain,, Hawaii Five-O And Kojak. More recently, he taught dance, including at Santa Monica College.
Adiarte was married to the singer-actress Loni Ackerman from 1975 to their 1992 divorce. Her sister died in 2016. In addition to her niece, the survivors include her nephew, Michael.
