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A seaside bingo hall is testing the temperatures of customers as they arrive as a precaution over coronavirus.

Patrick Duffy, 65, managing director of Palace Bingo. Picture: Daniel Hickey.- Credit: Archant

Visitors to Palace Bingo, on Church Plain in Great Yarmouth, will not be allowed into the club if they have a temperature above 37.4 degrees.

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Bingo America Created byAndrew Glassman Presented by Patrick Duffy Richard Karn Starring Crystal Wallasch Diane Mizota Country of originUnited States Original languageEnglish No. Of episodes105 Production Running time21–22 minutes Production companyGlassman Media Release Original networkGame Show Network Original releaseMarch 31, 2008 – January 2, 2009 Chronology Preceded byNational Bingo Night External links Website Bingo America. CBS later picked it up and it got cancelled in a year. He did other roles later on and then Bingo America came along in 2008. Now, Patrick Duffy, to my knowledge has never appeared on a game show. So, he was a major unknown when it came to hosting.

The measures have been in place since Friday (February 28) but staff have not yet had to decline entry to any customers.

Patrick Duffy, 65, managing director, said: 'I believe every business has a duty of care, where you bring people in numbers together.

'Particularly in the afternoon, there might be at least 60 to 70 people in, so we do not allow people in that may have a virus.'

Customers at Palace Bingo in Great Yarmouth are having their temperature tested as precaution over the coronavirus. Picture: Daniel Hickey.- Credit: Archant

He said anyone with a high temperature would then be alerted to call 111.

Mr Duffy was in Hong Kong in 2003 during the SARS outbreak.

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He was also in Singapore a month ago.

'It was big news there. The best hotels were doing temperature checks,' he said.

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Response to the check has been mostly positive, with only two customers objecting to the test, one of those in Felixstowe.

Mr Duffy said: 'People have been very complimentary about it that we are taking the time and trouble to make sure they are safe.'

He said the club is now being deep-cleaned every morning.

Brenda Llwellyn, 74, from Great Yarmouth, said the temperature check was a good idea.

'I think it's good because they get a lot of people in here,' she said.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the spread of the coronavirus was 'likely' to become 'more significant' for the UK in the coming days.

He said: 'We have also agreed a plan so that if and when it starts to spread, as I'm afraid it looks likely it will, we are in a position to take the steps necessary to... contain the spread of the disease as far as we can, and to protect the most vulnerable.

'We will be announcing that plan not just tomorrow but in the days and weeks ahead as the thing develops,' he said.

The number of UK cases climbed to 36 over the weekend, including a patient in Essex who became the second in the country to test positive without having recently travelled abroad.

Patrick Duffy (born March 17, 1949)^[1] is an American actor, widely known for his role on the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing, the youngest son of Miss Ellie and the nicest brother of J.R. Ewing (played by Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman respectively) from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991. Duffy returned to reprise his role as Bobby in a continuation of Dallas, which aired on TNT from 2012 to 2014. He is also well known for his role on the ABCsitcomStep by Step as Frank Lambert from 1991 to 1998, and for his role as Stephen Logan on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2006-2011). Duffy played the lead character's father in the 2014 NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden.

Early life[edit]

Duffy was born in Townsend, Montana, in 1949, the son of tavern owners Marie and Terence Duffy.^[1][2] During high school, Duffy was living in Everett, Washington, and attended Cascade High School. At Cascade, he participated in the Drama Club and the Pep Club, for which he was a Yell King.^[2][3] Academically, Duffy earned credentials in theater arts that entitled him to teach, graduating from the University of Washington in 1971 with a degree in drama.^[4] He ruptured both his vocal cords during his senior year of college, so he created the position of actor-in-residence, where he worked as an interpreter for ballet, opera, and orchestra companies in Washington. He also taught mime and movement classes during this period.^[5]

Career[edit]

In 1977, Duffy landed the role of Mark Harris in the short-lived television series Man from Atlantis. Following the series' cancellation in early 1978, he got his big break in the role of Bobby Ewing, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman, on the prime-time soap opera Dallas.^[4] The show became a worldwide success. Despite its success, Duffy opted to leave the series in 1985 with his character being killed off onscreen. However, with both the show and his career on the decline, he returned in 1986 in the infamous shower scene that rendered the entire 1985–1986 season 'just a dream.' Duffy then remained with the series until its cancellation in 1991. He also appeared in several episodes of the spin-off series Knots Landing between 1979–82. Throughout the 13-year run of Dallas, Duffy directed several episodes of the series. Along with Dallas fame, Duffy has also tried his hand at singing, and in 1983, he had a hit in Europe with 'Together We're Strong', a duet with French female singer Mireille Mathieu.^[4] The single reached #5 in the Netherlands in April 1983.^[6]

At the end of Dallas' run in 1991, Duffy began another television role, as Frank Lambert on the family sitcom, Step by Step in which he co-starred with Suzanne Somers. The series ran until 1998, and Duffy also directed numerous episodes. Also in the 1990s, he appeared in two Dallas reunion television movies; J.R. Returns (1996) and War of the Ewings (1998), both of which he also co-produced. He has reunited on several occasions with many of his Dallas co-stars both onscreen and off, most notably for the non-fiction television special Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork in 2004. Duffy later continued to act in the occasional guest or voice acting appearance, including the series Family Guy (in which he appeared in a live action scene with Victoria Principal as they spoofed the Dallas shower scene), as well as Justice League and Touched by an Angel. Duffy starred in the television movies Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door and Desolation Canyon. In 2006, he began a recurring role on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Stephen Logan. From April to July 2008, he hosted Bingo America, a partially interactive game show on GSN.

Duffy reprised his role as Bobby Ewing in TNT's continuation series of Dallas. The series aired from 2012 to 2014.

Duffy played a surreal double of Bobby Ewing in the experimental documentary Hotel Dallas, directed by artist duo Ungur & Huang. The film premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.^[7]

On August 8, 2005, Barbara Bel Geddes died of lung cancer. Duffy had met Bel Geddes through his future father-in-law when he was a boy. At the time of his TV mother's death, he said:

When Barbara joined the cast of 'Dallas,' as Miss Ellie, I considered her to be like Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell, and Ethel Barrymore — a real 'name' in American theater. But you'd never have known it. She exhibited no large ego because of her history. She'd schlepp in and drop your jaw with every performance — whether it was drinking a cup of coffee, having a mastectomy, or losing Jock Ewing. It was remarkable, her ordinariness despite that pedigree. We called Barbara 'BBG' on the set. She was the mama figure. Larry Hagman was obviously the prow of the boat, but he couldn't have functioned without a strong mother, and I don't think there's been a mother like her on dramatic television since then. People related to her because she was the epitome of compassion despite her own pain. Off screen, she was a pistol. She cussed like a mule skinner, and she really liked to have her drinks. But she also had an endless capacity to include everybody that she loved, and that was the entire cast.^[8]

Then, 7 years after his TV mother's death, at the revival of Dallas, he said: 'Barbara is a big piece of our history, and it's important to me to honor her. To come back with Linda Gray as Sue Ellen and Larry Hagman in his J.R. hat, and then see the words Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow on the gravestone made me think, 'Oh, that's right -- she's gone.' The last thing he said about the revived series, without Bel Geddes as one of the stars: 'Through the whole first season, I don't think an episode goes by that Mama is not mentioned in reference to Southfork and the land.'^[9]

Personal life[edit]

Duffy married Carlyn Rosser, a professional ballerina 10 years his senior, in 1974.^[10] They lived near Eagle Point, Oregon, with their sons Padraic (b. 1974)^[10] and Conor (born c. 1980).^[11] Rosser died in 2017.^[12][13]

Duffy converted to Nichiren Buddhism and began chanting Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō at the approximate time of his earliest encounters with his wife, who was then a ballet dancer with the First Chamber Dance Company of New York. He and his family are longtime members of the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International.^[14][15]

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Duffy's nephew is former Major League Baseball pitcher Barry Zito.^[16]

On November 18, 1986, Duffy's parents were murdered by two young men, Kenneth Miller and Sean Wentz, during an armed robbery of the Boulder, Montana, tavern that his parents owned. Wentz and Miller, who were teenagers at the time, were convicted of the murders and sentenced to 75 years in prison. In 2001, Miller appeared before the Montana Parole board after Sean Wentz recanted his original story, admitting that Wentz was the sole gunman. Miller was denied clemency in 2001 but was released on parole in December 2007.^[17] Sean Wentz was granted parole in 2015.^[18]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

Bingo America Created byAndrew Glassman Presented by Patrick Duffy Richard Karn Starring Crystal Wallasch Diane Mizota Country of originUnited States Original languageEnglish No. Of episodes105 Production Running time21–22 minutes Production companyGlassman Media Release Original networkGame Show Network Original releaseMarch 31, 2008 – January 2, 2009 Chronology Preceded byNational Bingo Night External links Website Bingo America. CBS later picked it up and it got cancelled in a year. He did other roles later on and then Bingo America came along in 2008. Now, Patrick Duffy, to my knowledge has never appeared on a game show. So, he was a major unknown when it came to hosting.

The measures have been in place since Friday (February 28) but staff have not yet had to decline entry to any customers.

Patrick Duffy, 65, managing director, said: 'I believe every business has a duty of care, where you bring people in numbers together.

'Particularly in the afternoon, there might be at least 60 to 70 people in, so we do not allow people in that may have a virus.'

Customers at Palace Bingo in Great Yarmouth are having their temperature tested as precaution over the coronavirus. Picture: Daniel Hickey.- Credit: Archant

He said anyone with a high temperature would then be alerted to call 111.

Mr Duffy was in Hong Kong in 2003 during the SARS outbreak.

1. 1Mum's upset after church clears baby daughter's grave
2. 2Four arrests and 11 fines for teen's vigil - but friends slam 'rave' label
3. 3Shops and homes bid for former village police station

1. 4Police on scene as mass vigil for teen enters second day
2. 5Golf club forced to move tees after dunes collapse
3. 6Yarmouth chosen as pilot for economic recovery scheme
4. 7Woman praises police after tools worth £1k found following break-in
5. 8Teenager who died in motorcycle crash named
6. 9Covid roadmap: What can you do from today?
7. 10Bird's eye view of new £26m seaside leisure centre taking shape

He was also in Singapore a month ago.

'It was big news there. The best hotels were doing temperature checks,' he said.

Victoria Principal

Response to the check has been mostly positive, with only two customers objecting to the test, one of those in Felixstowe.

Mr Duffy said: 'People have been very complimentary about it that we are taking the time and trouble to make sure they are safe.'

He said the club is now being deep-cleaned every morning.

Brenda Llwellyn, 74, from Great Yarmouth, said the temperature check was a good idea.

'I think it's good because they get a lot of people in here,' she said.

Patrick Duffy Bingo Rules

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the spread of the coronavirus was 'likely' to become 'more significant' for the UK in the coming days.

He said: 'We have also agreed a plan so that if and when it starts to spread, as I'm afraid it looks likely it will, we are in a position to take the steps necessary to... contain the spread of the disease as far as we can, and to protect the most vulnerable.

'We will be announcing that plan not just tomorrow but in the days and weeks ahead as the thing develops,' he said.

The number of UK cases climbed to 36 over the weekend, including a patient in Essex who became the second in the country to test positive without having recently travelled abroad.

Patrick Duffy (born March 17, 1949)^[1] is an American actor, widely known for his role on the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing, the youngest son of Miss Ellie and the nicest brother of J.R. Ewing (played by Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman respectively) from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991. Duffy returned to reprise his role as Bobby in a continuation of Dallas, which aired on TNT from 2012 to 2014. He is also well known for his role on the ABCsitcomStep by Step as Frank Lambert from 1991 to 1998, and for his role as Stephen Logan on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2006-2011). Duffy played the lead character's father in the 2014 NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden.

Early life[edit]

Duffy was born in Townsend, Montana, in 1949, the son of tavern owners Marie and Terence Duffy.^[1][2] During high school, Duffy was living in Everett, Washington, and attended Cascade High School. At Cascade, he participated in the Drama Club and the Pep Club, for which he was a Yell King.^[2][3] Academically, Duffy earned credentials in theater arts that entitled him to teach, graduating from the University of Washington in 1971 with a degree in drama.^[4] He ruptured both his vocal cords during his senior year of college, so he created the position of actor-in-residence, where he worked as an interpreter for ballet, opera, and orchestra companies in Washington. He also taught mime and movement classes during this period.^[5]

Career[edit]

In 1977, Duffy landed the role of Mark Harris in the short-lived television series Man from Atlantis. Following the series' cancellation in early 1978, he got his big break in the role of Bobby Ewing, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman, on the prime-time soap opera Dallas.^[4] The show became a worldwide success. Despite its success, Duffy opted to leave the series in 1985 with his character being killed off onscreen. However, with both the show and his career on the decline, he returned in 1986 in the infamous shower scene that rendered the entire 1985–1986 season 'just a dream.' Duffy then remained with the series until its cancellation in 1991. He also appeared in several episodes of the spin-off series Knots Landing between 1979–82. Throughout the 13-year run of Dallas, Duffy directed several episodes of the series. Along with Dallas fame, Duffy has also tried his hand at singing, and in 1983, he had a hit in Europe with 'Together We're Strong', a duet with French female singer Mireille Mathieu.^[4] The single reached #5 in the Netherlands in April 1983.^[6]

At the end of Dallas' run in 1991, Duffy began another television role, as Frank Lambert on the family sitcom, Step by Step in which he co-starred with Suzanne Somers. The series ran until 1998, and Duffy also directed numerous episodes. Also in the 1990s, he appeared in two Dallas reunion television movies; J.R. Returns (1996) and War of the Ewings (1998), both of which he also co-produced. He has reunited on several occasions with many of his Dallas co-stars both onscreen and off, most notably for the non-fiction television special Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork in 2004. Duffy later continued to act in the occasional guest or voice acting appearance, including the series Family Guy (in which he appeared in a live action scene with Victoria Principal as they spoofed the Dallas shower scene), as well as Justice League and Touched by an Angel. Duffy starred in the television movies Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door and Desolation Canyon. In 2006, he began a recurring role on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Stephen Logan. From April to July 2008, he hosted Bingo America, a partially interactive game show on GSN.

Duffy reprised his role as Bobby Ewing in TNT's continuation series of Dallas. The series aired from 2012 to 2014.

Duffy played a surreal double of Bobby Ewing in the experimental documentary Hotel Dallas, directed by artist duo Ungur & Huang. The film premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.^[7]

On August 8, 2005, Barbara Bel Geddes died of lung cancer. Duffy had met Bel Geddes through his future father-in-law when he was a boy. At the time of his TV mother's death, he said:

When Barbara joined the cast of 'Dallas,' as Miss Ellie, I considered her to be like Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell, and Ethel Barrymore — a real 'name' in American theater. But you'd never have known it. She exhibited no large ego because of her history. She'd schlepp in and drop your jaw with every performance — whether it was drinking a cup of coffee, having a mastectomy, or losing Jock Ewing. It was remarkable, her ordinariness despite that pedigree. We called Barbara 'BBG' on the set. She was the mama figure. Larry Hagman was obviously the prow of the boat, but he couldn't have functioned without a strong mother, and I don't think there's been a mother like her on dramatic television since then. People related to her because she was the epitome of compassion despite her own pain. Off screen, she was a pistol. She cussed like a mule skinner, and she really liked to have her drinks. But she also had an endless capacity to include everybody that she loved, and that was the entire cast.^[8]

Then, 7 years after his TV mother's death, at the revival of Dallas, he said: 'Barbara is a big piece of our history, and it's important to me to honor her. To come back with Linda Gray as Sue Ellen and Larry Hagman in his J.R. hat, and then see the words Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow on the gravestone made me think, 'Oh, that's right -- she's gone.' The last thing he said about the revived series, without Bel Geddes as one of the stars: 'Through the whole first season, I don't think an episode goes by that Mama is not mentioned in reference to Southfork and the land.'^[9]

Personal life[edit]

Duffy married Carlyn Rosser, a professional ballerina 10 years his senior, in 1974.^[10] They lived near Eagle Point, Oregon, with their sons Padraic (b. 1974)^[10] and Conor (born c. 1980).^[11] Rosser died in 2017.^[12][13]

Duffy converted to Nichiren Buddhism and began chanting Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō at the approximate time of his earliest encounters with his wife, who was then a ballet dancer with the First Chamber Dance Company of New York. He and his family are longtime members of the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International.^[14][15]

Patrick Duffy Bingo Game

Duffy's nephew is former Major League Baseball pitcher Barry Zito.^[16]

On November 18, 1986, Duffy's parents were murdered by two young men, Kenneth Miller and Sean Wentz, during an armed robbery of the Boulder, Montana, tavern that his parents owned. Wentz and Miller, who were teenagers at the time, were convicted of the murders and sentenced to 75 years in prison. In 2001, Miller appeared before the Montana Parole board after Sean Wentz recanted his original story, admitting that Wentz was the sole gunman. Miller was denied clemency in 2001 but was released on parole in December 2007.^[17] Sean Wentz was granted parole in 2015.^[18]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Patrick Duffy Biography (1949–)'. FilmReference.com. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
2. ^ ^abMaves, Norm Jr. (May 7, 1990). 'QUIET ON THE SET'. The Oregonian. pp. C01.
3. ^1967 Vista, Cascade High School yearbook
4. ^ ^abc'Patrick Duffy Biography'. Tvguide.com. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
5. ^'Patrick Duffy Biography'. Biography.com. Archived from the original on September 7, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
6. ^'Dutch Music Charts'. Dutch Charts. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
7. ^Meza, Ed (February 17, 2016). 'Berlin: 'Hotel Dallas' Enlisted Duffy for Surreal Twist'. Variety. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
8. ^Duffy, Patrick (December 23, 2005). 'Patrick Duffy Remembers Barbara Bel Geddes'. ew.com. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
9. ^'The Late Miss Ellie Will Be a Part of New 'Dallas''. TVweek.com. April 3, 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
10. ^ ^ab'Patrick Duffy Biography'. Archived from the original on January 9, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2007. Ten years his senior, Carlyn was a ballet dancer with the First Chamber Dance Company. She was also a Buddhist, and introduced Duffy to the faith, which he still strictly follows to this day. The couple were married in a Buddhist temple in 1974 and in the same year their first of two children, Padraic, was born. thebiographychannel.co.uk
11. ^Das, Lina (October 28, 2011). 'Who drank shots with JR?'. Independent Online. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013. The couple have a ranch in Oregon, two sons, Padraic, 37, and Conor, 31...
12. ^'Patrick Duffy Biography (1949–)'. Biography.com. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
13. ^Duffy, confusingly, said on June 23, 2017, that Rosser had died six months previous, which would be December 23, 2016: @therealpduffy (June 23, 2017). 'On this day 6 months ago my heart stopped yet I live on as she wishes We will be together eternally' (Tweet). Retrieved January 2, 2018 – via Twitter.
14. ^'Patrick Duffy: 'I only converted to Buddhism because I wanted to sleep with the woman who became my wife''. Independent.ie.
15. ^'Soka Gakkai International Musicians Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter Join Carlos Santana to Headline Emissaries of Peace Tour'. Globe Newswire.
16. ^'Ten burning questions for baseball's offseason'. USA Today. November 1, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
17. ^Terrance and Marie Duffy murder 11/18/1986 Boulder, MT *Sean Wentz and Kenneth Miller convicted and sentenced to prison* | Bonnie's Blog of Crime. Mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com. Retrieved on March 19, 2013.
18. ^Making It Part 3: A man moves out on his own after 30 years in prison for double homicide

External links[edit]

• Patrick Duffy at IMDb