Don Rickles is Dead by BruceM

To whom did Don Rickles address this ad lib, while doing stand-up at a Miami Beach nightclub?

"I just saw your movie The Pride and the Passion and I want to tell you, the cannon's acting was great."

This entertainer co-starred in The Pride and the Passion with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. In a subsequent incident, Rickles supposedly convinced this man to come over and say hi to him and his date, so that Rickles could say "not now... can't you see I'm busy?"

Either of two answers is acceptable. Don Rickles made his own film debut in Run Silent, Run Deep. Name either of the co-stars of that submarine war drama, the actors who played Commander Richardson and Lieutenant Commander Bledsoe.

On which 1960s TV series did Rickles make a guest appearance as Sid? Sample dialogue:

"Sid, it's good to see you again. You haven't changed a bit, how long has it been now?"
"15 years! You forgot? Seoul, Korea, 1952. Don't you remember? We said if we both lived through this we'd get together again, huh, pal? Well, we almost didn't make it."
"Yeah, that was a tough bar, Sid."

What actress was married to Jack Gilardi, Rickles's agent, as of when Rickles was cast in the Beach Party movies? This former Mousketeer was supposedly the inspiration for the Paul Anka song "Puppy Love."

In what 1970 comedy movie did Rickles -- along with Clint Eastwood, Carroll O'Connor, Telly Sevalas, and Donald Sutherland -- play American soldiers who try to rob a bank behind enemy lines?

Which TV show did Rickles co-host with Steve Lawrence in the early 1980s? This ABC show was basically a mimic of TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, which Dick Clark co-hosted with Ed McMahon.

Who co-starred with Rickles on the short-lived Fox sit-com Daddy Dearest? This author of The Other Great Depression (who once shared a Snickers ad with Roseanne Barr) plays a psychologist and Rickles is his used car salesman father.

With which actor did Rickles appear in a Snickers ad of his own? In the 1995 film Casino, this man was Nicky Santoro and Rickles was Billy Sherbert.

Who is the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies? (Rickles is of course Mr. Potato Head.) She has also been in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Seinfeld.

Which TV sit-com was Rickles taping when Johnny Carson -- in mock anger that Rickles had accidentally broken Carson's cigarette box during a previous Tonight Show -- stormed across the hall and onto the set to call Rickles a "big dummy"?

Rickles told the studio audience of this sitcom (set on a naval base in San Diego) "Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Carson!" To which Carson brusquely replied: "They know who I am."

Who had been the guest host of the Tonight Show the night Rickles broke Carson's cigarette box? For decades this comedian and his wife have been close friends with Rickles and his wife, as recounted in this man's memoir, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This.

Which country is now home to Kaunas, the city from which Rickles's father immigrated? (Kaunas is this nation's second-most populous city.)