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ACTOR ROBERT CONRAD IS 79 TODAY

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Conrad was a recording artist of pop/rock songs in the early 1960s as
Bob Conrad before he began his acting career. He has hosted a weekly
two hour national radio show (The PM Show with Robert Conrad) on CRN
Digital Talk Radio
.

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The Wild Wild West was on NBC television from 1965 to 1969

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The NBC series aired from 1976 to 1978

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ACTOR ABE VIGODA IS 93 TODAY

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Vigoda began his career with a small roles on the television series, Studio One.
His debut film was 1953’s The Joe Louis Story.

He went on to appear in dramas, including The Godfather (1972), and comedies
such as Barney Miller (ABC-TV, 1975-1982), and Joe Versus The Volcano (1990).

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Hal Linden (left) and Abe Vigoda publicity photo for Barney Miller

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907

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  Robert George Young
(February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998)

Robert Young appeared in minor roles in silent films and toured with a
stock company before being discovered by an MGM talent scout. He
was in over 100 films between 1932 and 1951 and later played leading
roles in the series, Father Knows Best which ran on NBC radio from
1949 to 1954 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960. and Marcus
Welby, M.D.on ABC-TV from 1969 to 1976.
 

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Robert Young with Jean Vander Pyl on radios “Father Knows Best”

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The TV cast of “Father Knows Best”

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ACTOR HAL HOLBROOK IS 89 TODAY

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                                   Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr.

Holbrook is most famous for his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight since 1954
and has played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series. He was nominated for
a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for the 2007 film Into the
Wild.
Some of Holbrook’s latest films are Water for Elephants (2011), and the 
Steven Spielberg drama Lincoln (2012).

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HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THIS DAY IN 1943

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"My True Story" debuted on ABC radio and ran for seventeen years. The daily
program was presented in cooperation with "True Story" magazine, the source of
the stories for the radio series. The magazine, first published in 1919. was said to
be one of the earliest in today’s genre of confession magazines and continued on
radio for nearly 19 years.   

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