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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921

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Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

Chuck Connors was a actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball
player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional
sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National
Basketball
Association
. With a 40-year film and television career, Connors
is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC
series The Rifleman (1958–63). He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles at the age of 71 of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer.

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MOVIE PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1953

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House of Wax was the first color 3-D feature from a major studio and premiered
just two days after the Columbia Pictures film Man in the Dark, the first major-
studio black-and-white 3-D feature. It was also the first 3-D film with stereophonic
sound to be presented in a regular movie theater. It premiered nationwide on
April 10, 1953 and went out for a general release on April 25, 1953.

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ACTOR RICHARD DYSART IS DEAD AT 86

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Richard A. Dysart (March 30, 1929 – April 5, 2015)

(AP) – Richard Dysart, a veteran stage and screen actor who played senior
partner Leland McKenzie in the long-running TV courtroom drama "L.A. Law,"
(1986-1994), has died after a long illness. He earned one Emmy Award, and
three more nominations, for his role on “L.A. Law”.

Dysart died Sunday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to his
daughter-in-law Jeannine Jacobi.

He created the Broadway role of the Coach in "That Championship Season,"
for which he won a Drama Desk Award in 1972, and his many film appearances
included Clint Eastwood’s "Pale Rider" (1985) and John Carpenter’s "The Thing”
(1982).

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DEDICATED ACTOR IS DEAD AT 88

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Best in “The Dukes of Hazzard” on CBS from 1979 – 1985.

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James Best (Jules Guy) (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015)

(FoxNews) – Actor James Best, who played the often confused Sheriff
Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” died on Monday evening
after a brief illness and battle with pneumonia. He is survived by his wife
Angela, his son and two daughters and his three grandchildren. 

Best’s last role was in the 2013 Hallmark film "The Sweeter Side of Life."  

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STARS BORN ON THIS DAY

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Betty Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis)
(April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)


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Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003)

 

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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967)

 

 

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