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Remembering football player/actor Alex Karras on his birthday. 7/15/1935-10/10/2012

I will always remember him as Websters adoptive father on Webster (1983-1989)....

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As an actor, Karras played Mongo in the 1974 comedy film Blazing Saddles. He starred as George Papadopolis, the adoptive father of Webster Long (Emmanuel Lewis), in the ABC sitcom Webster (1983–1989) alongside his wife Susan Clark.
Webster (TV Series 1983–1989) - Alex Karras as George Papadapolis - IMDb.
Emmanuel Lewis—Now. At present, the now 41-year-old star is keeping busy with his own record label, Flex Floss Entertainment.
The little one is orphaned when his parents are killed in a car crash, leaving George to take in Webster since he had promised his former football teammate he would care for his son in the event of a tragedy.
Ultimately, due to Lewis' height, the character of Webster Long was only depicted between the ages of 6 and 12 years old over the show's six seasons. Early in the 1988–89 season, with Lewis clearly outgrowing the title role, Karras and Clark also decided that the time was right to move on.