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VETERAN ACTOR IS 84 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Robert Duvall’s screen debut as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Duvall has been nominated for six Academy Awards (winning for his performance
in Tender Mercies
, 1983), six Golden Globes (winning four), and also has multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and
Emmy Award.

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Robert Selden Duvall is 84 today

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1887

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Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt in England)
(November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) 

Actor Boris Karloff played the monster in the 1931 film, Frankenstein. He
also starred in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein
(1939). He is the main character of the 1957 animated Christmas story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Prior to becoming an actor, he was
employed as a farm laborer.

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FROM PDX RETRO ~

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Original television run on CBS: September 24, to May 12, 1966

 

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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                                                       Ed Donahue

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1882

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula

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Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó)

(20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956)

The Hungarian actor is best remembered for portraying
Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in 
various other horror films. Lugosi dropped out of school
when he was twelve years old, and began appearing in
Shakespeare plays.


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