Biography

Ended up making more money from his 10% ownership in The Odd Couple (1970) than from the $7000 per episode he received during the show's final season.

The last surviving juror from the cast of the original 12 Người Đàn Ông Giận Dữ (1957), Juror number five.

He enjoyed betting on the horses from the tender age of 15. His own thoroughbred, "Jacklin Klugman", finished third in the 1980 Kentucky Derby.

His favorite episode of The Odd Couple (1970) was Password (1972).

Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1974 culminated with vocal surgery in 1989, which left Klugman's voice harsh and gravelly. Both his cancer and scratchy voice were written into several of his later film and television roles, including The Odd Couple: Together Again (1993), Dear God (1996), and Diagnosis Murder (1993).

[on his great friend Tony Randall] The best friend a man could ever have. I loved him dearly. He was a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. I will miss him for the rest of my days.

[on former roommate Charles Bronson] You remembered him. He had an amazing presence.

[on working with Tony Randall] There's nobody better to improvise with than Tony. A script might say,"Oscar teaches Felix football". There would be four blank pages. He would provoke me into reacting to what he did. Mine was the easy part.

[on the hardships of his life] Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

[on smoking] I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him . . . The only really stupid thing I ever did in my life was to start smoking.