The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon individual stations, airing on ABC on Sunday, September 1, 2013, and running two hours. The final edition aired on ABC on August 31, 2014, again as a two-hour special, beginning at 9PM ET/PT. It was announced on May 1, 2015 that the MDA would be discontinuing the annual event for good. Jerry Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America (MDAA) in 1952 after a plea from a staff member who worked with Lewis and Dean Martin on "The Colgate Comedy Hour". Lewis had previously taken part in what has been described as the very first
Geoffrey Lewis (actor) in the Garden of Good and Evil", "Pink Cadillac", "Any Which Way You Can", "Bronco Billy", "Every Which Way But Loose", "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot", and "High Plains Drifter". In the 1980s, Lewis was also a member of musical storytelling group Celestial Navigations with musician and songwriter Geoff Levin. Lewis was married four times and had 10 children, including Oscar-nominated actress Juliette Lewis. On April 7, 2015, Lewis died of a heart attack at age 79 in his Woodland Hills residence. Geoffrey Lewis (actor) Geoffrey Bond Lewis (July 31, 1935 – April 7, 2015) was an American character actor. Lewis was