The child actor Philip McKeon as Tommy in the television show “Alice” in 1979. That experience was mine. When did Victoria Wood die of cancer? The comic died of cancer, aged 62, last April , and is said to have left half the cash to set up a charity in her name. The legacy Vic Tayback leaves is unforgettable. Peter Weller is supposed to be quite the uptight closet case, though now that he hasn't much of a career, maybe he's actually unclenched enough and … He had a brother named Joe Tayback, who owned ‘KAZM’, the only radio station in Sedona, Arizona for a long period of time. He had grown to a height of 6 feet 3 inches, a height which Vic Tayback was all too keenly aware. He loved his time on Alice and admits, "I wouldn't trade it for anything. Nobody else can say they did that.” By the time the show ended, Philip was an adult and he was earning well in excess of a six-digit salary. Meanwhile, the "Vic Tayback is gay" thing I think is a Datalounge joke that people have taken at face value. Given that Polly Holliday and Diane Ladd she was in friction with. Despite an acting career that spanned more than three decades, this is an actor who will forever be known to millions as that often ill-tempered fry cook, Mel Sharples, in the television series Alice. There were so many reports that she was difficult to deal with and hard to get along with. Vic Tayback was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 6, 1930, to Helen Tayback and Najeeb James Tayback. The rest goes to family and friends. I always wonder how did Vic Tayback and Beth Howland dealt with Linda Lavin and how they got along with her??? Tayback’s parents had immigrated to …