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DICK CLARK’S MOVIE CAREER

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Dick Clark starred in three movies. His first film role came in the 1960 youth
drama “Because They’re Young,” directed by Paul Wendkos, about a young
high school teacher who tries to help the troubled students at the school. In
1961, he starred as one of the titular "Young Doctors," alongside Fredric
March and Ben Gazzara, in a story about romance and lifesaving decisions
at a hospital. Perhaps his most unusual role came in the low-budget 1968
crime drama "Killers Three," in which Clark played a backwoods psycho
killer. He also served as a producer and writer on the film.

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Victoria Shaw and Dick Clark from “Because They’re Young”

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ACTOR MAXIMILIAN SCHEEL HAS DIED AT 83

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Maximilian Schell
(December 8, 1930 – February 1, 2014)

(Variety) – Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from
Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar
for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,”
has died.

Schell’s agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died
overnight at a hospital in Innsbruck following a “sudden and
serious illness.”

Maximilian made his Hollywood debut in Edward Dmytryk’s “The
Young Lions,” a World War II drama starring Marlon Brando,
Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin.

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Tea Leoni and the legendary Maximilian Schell

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SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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Indictment! was a courtroom drama on CBS radio from 1956 through
1959. The show was based on the case files of former New York City 
Assistant District Attorney Eleazer Lipsky, it "presented the step-by-step
and tedious checking that went into a case before an indictment could
be obtained."

Nat Polen (below) played the part of Edward McCormick, ADA.  Polen
was better known for his role as Dr. James Craig on ABC-TV’s "One
Life to Live."

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Nat Polen

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Vintage 1956 Philco Transitone clock AM radio

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ACTOR SCOTT GLENN IS 73 TODAY

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Theodore Scott Glenn 

Glenn’s roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980),
astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado
(1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990),
and Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

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ACTRESS PIPER LAURIE IS 82 TODAY

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Piper Laurie today

Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs)

Laurie is best known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks 
(1990-1991) and the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and
Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Academy
Award
nominations. In 1991, she won a Golden Globe Award for her
portrayal of Catherine Martell in Twin Peaks.

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       Piper Laurie made a memorable performance as the mother 

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