(AP) – Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop
Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and
Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died.
His manager Allan Mindel said Williams died Friday at his home
in Los Angeles after a battle with colon cancer.
(1939 – 2021)
Clinton Eastwood Jr., actor, film director, composer, and producer turned 91 Sunday, May 31.
Actor, director and narrator Morgan Freeman
is 84 today. He has appeared in a range of
film genres portraying many characters.
Born Marion Michael Morrison, Wayne’s family moved to Glendale,
California, when he was six years old. As a teen, he rose at four in
the morning to deliver newspapers, and after school he played
football and made deliveries for local stores. When he graduated
from high school, he hoped to attend the U.S. Naval Academy, But
after the school rejected him, he accepted a full scholarship to play
football at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
In the summer of 1926, Wayne’s football coach found him a job as
an assistant prop man on the set of a movie directed by John Ford.
Ford started to use Wayne as an extra, and he eventually began to
trust him with some larger roles
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Don Knotts on the live soap opera ‘Search for Tomorrow’
Don Knotts’ first role on television was on the CBS soap opera
Search for Tomorrow from 1953-54. His character was named
Wilbur Peterson, a neurotic guy who didn’t talk much. He would
only speak to one person, his sister. it was Don’s first and only
serious professional role.
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006)
