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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1931

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David Janssen (David Harold Meyer) 

(March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980)

Janssen is best remembered for starring in the ABC-TV series, The
Fugitive from 1963-1967 and for title roles in Richard Diamond, Private
Detective
on CBS television from 1957 to 1960 and O’Hara, U.S. Treasury
on CBS from 1971 to 1972..

                the fugitive

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Fugitive - David Jansen, Fred Johnson
Bill Raisch played the one-armed man

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R. LEE ERMEY IS 70 TODAY

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Ronald Lee Ermey 

Ermey is best known for his 1987 role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 
Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination
for Best Supporting Actor. He is a retired U.S. Marine and an honorary
Gunnery Sergeant; during his tenure in the U.S. Marine Corps he served
as a drill instructor. 


   full metal jacket

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FORMER CHILD ACTOR IS 64 TODAY

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Jon Provost with Lassie

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Jon Provost (Jonathan Bion Provost)

Provost is best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS
series, Lassie (1957-1964). His acting career began at age two when
cast as Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden’s son in the 1953 film So Big.


At 14 years of age Provost decided to end his career in show business,
but made a decision to return to do some television work in 1990. His
Career has taken variety of directions since. 

According to his website, the check shirt and jeans he wore for seven
years on Lassie hang in The Smithsonian next to Archie Bunker’s chair.

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SHARON STONE IS 56 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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1970 Yearbook photo

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Sharon Vonne Stone

Sharon Stone became well known for her role in the 1992 thriller Basic
Instinct with Michael Douglas. Despite initial critical negativity and public 
protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most successful films financially  
of the 1990s. Before fame, Stone quit school to become a fashion model 
in New York City.

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ISSUE OF TV GUIDE FOR MARCH 3-9 OF 1973

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The CBS television series Cannon is a Quinn Martin production which aired 
from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.

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