You’ll be ‘Damn Glad’ you picked up a copy of actor Tim Matheson’s new memoir

Tim Matheson has portrayed a president and vice chairman. A police officer and navy officer. And quite a lot of medical doctors. He’s labored with Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Jackie Gleason, Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell and Steven Spielberg. He appeared in episodes of the whole lot from “Depart to Beaver” and “My Three Sons” to “That is Us” and “CSI.”

The 76-year-old has tons of of performing, directing and producing credit to his title over a profession that started when John F. Kennedy was president. (Sure, Matheson performed him on display screen, too.)

Matheson transports readers to the units of fairly a number of of his Hollywood gigs within the pleasurable and illuminating memoir, “Rattling Glad to Meet You: My Seven A long time within the Hollywood Trenches.”

The ebook’s title is a nod to the recurring line Matheson delivers as Eric “Otter” Stratton, the Delta rush chairman within the all-time comedy, “Animal Home.”

The part on the making of the basic 1978 movie is nearly well worth the ebook’s buy worth alone. Spoiler alert: A number of the actors who performed Delta Home members acquired as much as their very own hijinks whereas on location on the College of Oregon, the stand-in for the fictional Faber School. The outline of the forged’s go to to an actual frat get together in Eugene is a specific spotlight.

Lately, Matheson is working north of the border, the place his hit Netflix present, “Virgin River,” is shot.

It’s simply the most recent in a really lengthy line of roles the native Californian has taken on in his productive and prolonged profession.

“I’ve been fortunate. I do know that,” Matheson writes. “I’ve all the time discovered a spot to inform a narrative.”

And now, he’s telling us his tales. We ought to be rattling glad he did.