SCREEN ACTORS GUILD LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS
THE SAG LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD DID YOU KNOW…
1960s
1962 Eddie Cantor 1963 Stan Laurel 1965 Bob Hope 1966 Barbara Stanwyck 1967 William Gargan 1968 James Stewart 1969 Edward G. Robinson
1970s
1970 Gregory Peck 1971 Charlton Heston 1972 Frank Sinatra 1973 Martha Raye 1974 Walter Pidgeon 1975 Rosalind Russell 1976 Pearl Bailey 1977 James Cagney 1978 Edgar Bergen 1979 Katharine Hepburn
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• It was originally called the Screen Actors Guild Annual Award. • Bob Hope, the third honoree, was the first to receive the award in its current form. The first year it was a gold SAG card, and the second a crystal bowl. • The first award, given to Eddie Cantor, is now at UCLA in the Department of Special Collections. • The award was given posthumously once, in 1978, to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. • The first to receive it on TV was George Burns in 1994. • Five of the recipients have been past SAG presidents: Eddie Cantor, Charlton Heston, James Cagney, Leon Ames and Ed Asner. • Four of the recipients appeared on Mary Tyler Moore's eponymous TV series: Moore, Ed Asner and Betty White starred, while Nanette Fabray, who received the award in 1986, guested on two episodes in 1972.
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