Actors Who Never Won Emmys

From unclebarky.com

By ED BARK

The 60th annual prime-time Emmy Award nominations are coming on July 17th. Many performers have a statue that’s on their mantle, in their closet, been handed down to survivors or sold on ebay. Still, some of the biggest and most influential stars in TV history are still without recognition from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. And for four on this list, it’s already too late.

10. David Janssen — Unjustly convicted of murdering his wife, Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble spent four seasons in pursuit of the “One-Armed Man” while in turn being tailed by the relentless Lt. Philip Gerard. The Fugitive’s finale, on August 29, 1967, became the most-watched series episode in TV history until the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas outdrew it in 1980. The late Janssen received three Emmy nominations as Kimble, but no trophies. He later excelled as private eye Harry Orwell in the short-lived and under-appreciated Harry O series.

9. Courteney Cox — Never received an Emmy nomination as Monica Geller Bing on Friends. That had to hurt, because all five of her castmates did, even though only Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston eventually took home statutes. Cox currently is playing an unscrupulous tabloid editor in FX’s Dirt.

8. Jason Alexander — He richly deserved an Emmy as terminally angst-ridden George Costanza on Seinfeld. Instead he garnered seven nominations for the character, plus another for a guest shot on HBO’s Dream On. Alexander’s pain is more palpable than Cox’s, largely because Seinfeld’s other three principals — Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards — all have one or more Emmys in hand.

7. Buddy Ebsen — He lived to be 95, which wasn’t long enough to see even a single Emmy nomination, let alone a win. Ebsen’s signature role as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies is bookended by stints as Davy Crockett’s sidekick, Georgie Russel, on the old Disney series and as spry Barnaby Jones in the same-named detective drama.

6. Mark Harmon — One of prime-time’s most enduring, bankable leading men capably played flawed doctors on both St. Elsewhere and Chicago Hope before landing his ongoing starring role as snippy Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS. Oddly enough, his first of just two Emmy nominations came for a brief role as an injured soldier in 1977’s Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. He copped the other one 25 years later for a guest shot on The West Wing.

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