EntertainerBorn: | March 19, 1951, St. Louis, Missouri |
Died: | October 21, 2003, Los Angeles, California |
Buried: | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los A |
Notes:• Member of the Locker Dancers, an LA Based Dance troupe.
• American actor best known for the role of Fred "Rerun" Stubbs on the popular 1970s television show What's Happening!!. (1976-1979)
• "Fred Berry - Actor, dancer and comedian best known for playing the beret-wearing, suspender-clad teen known as Rerun on the 1970s sitcom "What's Happening!!" and later "What's Happening Now", who was never able to shake the role and continued to appear in the Rerun getup into his 50's, who became a Baptist minister in the 1980s, and who was married six times, died in his sleep on Oct. 21 or 22 in Los Angeles of undetermined causes (he had recently had a stroke) at age 52." - Life in Legacy
• He became a motivational speaker and Baptist minister in Madison, Alabama, at the Little Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church later in life. - jrank.org
Related Links:• Biography - Biography. Good bio including a reference to Madison, AL. and a "Selected Works" list.
• Find a Grave - Photo and short bio including a mention of his Madison, AL connection. The page was originally created by A. J. Marik on Oct22, 2003 and is maintained by Find A Grave.
• jrank.org - Read more: Fred "Rerun" Berry Biography - Selected works - Happening, People, Angeles, Dance, October, and Appeared
• Life in Legacy
• Wikipedia
• YouTube - What's Happening Video
• YouTube - Tribute in St. Louis
• YouTube - YouTube Video of Pastor Fred Barry preaching
• YouTube - Rerun Dancing Dynamite