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Yul Brynner (Yuly Borisovich Briner)
(July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)
Yul Brynner portrayed rulers in The King and I (1951) and The
Ten Commandments (1956). His other films include Anastasia
(1956), The Sound and the Fury (1959), and Death Rage (1976).
Brynner lived in Russia, France, and China before immigrating
to the U.S. He debuted as Paul Vicola in the 1949 film, Port of
New York.
1973
William Whitney Talman, Jr. (February 4, 1915 – August 30, 1968)
Bill Talman was a television and movie actor, who played Los Angeles District
Attorney Hamilton Burger in the long-running CBS-TV series Perry Mason
(1957-1966). He is also known for being the first actor in Hollywood to film
an anti-smoking public service announcement for the American Cancer
Society. A lifelong heavy smoker, Talman was diagnosed with lung cancer,
and knew he was dying when he filmed the commercial.
Arlo Davy Guthrie is 69 years old today.

1972
MEL BLANC, KGW RADIO IN PORTLAND, OREG.
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)
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