Barefoot in the Park (TV series) "The Odd Couple" (Jerry Paris, Harvey Miller, Bruce Bilson and Garry Marshall among others). Barefoot in the Park (TV series) Barefoot in the Park is an American sitcom that aired in 1970 on ABC. Based on the Neil Simon Broadway play of the same name, the series cast members are predominantly black, making it the first American television sitcom since "Amos 'n' Andy" to have a predominantly black cast (Vito Scotti is the sole major white character). "Barefoot in the Park" had also previously been a 1967 film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Scoey Mitchell plays Paul Bratter, a
Robert Redford basketball game against a team from Russia. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. In 1962 Robert Redford got his second film role in "War Hunt". He was cast alongside screen legend Alec Guinness in the war comedy "Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious", in which he played a soldier who has to spend years of his life hiding behind enemy lines. In "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles