. >> wasn't that a great movie and francis coppola who is kind of a big skid himself and really has a lot of fun making movies, the combo of those two guys, you know, my dad and francis and playing with him, it was like, you know, being a kid again. >> larry: and he had a hit television series, right? >> a bunch of them. i don't know, eight, nine tv series but "sea hunt" was the big thing. >> they started down. looked at him. >> larry: he did "airplane" was he having as much fun as we did watching it a hundred times. striker? >> absolutely. he a great time. one of his challenges in his career is that he was so good at doing these different parts, you know, that people thought that's who he was, you know, with "sea hunt" people thought he was mike nelson. he was the skin diver that gave him a few acting lessons and it was, you know, wonderful compliment but it turned out he was only getting scripts for skin divers and when he did "airplane" he would only -- people thought of him as a comedian. i recommended him for a part in "blown away" and, you know, the producer said, oh, your fathe