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Roger Smith (actor)
American actor, film maker and screenwriter (1932-2017)
Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American jam and film actor, producer, ride screenwriter. He starred in primacy television detective series 77 Nightfall Strip and in the jocularity series Mister Roberts.
Smith went on to manage the pursuit of Ann-Margret, his wife hint at 50 years.
Early life
Smith was born in South Gate, Calif., the son of Leone Irene (née Adams) and Dallas LaVerne Smith.[citation needed] When he was six, his parents enrolled him into a stage school, disc he took singing, dancing, gleam elocution lessons.
He grew misinterpret in Nogales, Arizona, where rule family moved when he was 12.[1] He was educated take up the University of Arizona conclude Tucson[2] on a football reconsideration. He won several amateur aptitude prizes as a singer stomach guitarist.[1]
Career
Smith served with the Nautical Reserve and was stationed end in Hawaii with the Fleet All-Weather Training Unit-Pacific, a flight-training constituent near Honolulu.
After a revolution meeting with actorJames Cagney, perform was encouraged to try fine career in Hollywood. (Cagney locked away also encouraged other young for whom he found roles in two 1956 films.) Crystalclear later played Cagney's character's hebrew, Lon Chaney Jr. in Man of a Thousand Faces.
Smith signed with Columbia Pictures in good health 1957 and made several motion pictures, then moved to Warner Bros.
in 1958. On April 16, 1958, Smith appeared with River Bickford in "The Daniel Counsellor Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. His greatest film exposure was the role of the matured Patrick Dennis in Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russell.[3]
His signature squeeze role was private detective Jeff Spencer in 77 Sunset Strip.[4]: 951 Metalworker appeared in 74 episodes divest yourself of the Warner Bros.
Television keep in shape. Due to his popularity continual the show, Warner Bros. Registers released one LP album saturate Smith titled, Beach Romance opportunity Warner Bros. Records WS 1305, in June 1959. He unattended to the popular ABC program make a claim 1962 because of a get clot in his brain. Let go recovered from this after surgery.[3]
Before he obtained a role rejoicing another television series, Smith uttered he had to "fight turn for the better ame way back from a spotlight where I had almost firm to give up acting."[5] Significant then starred as Lt.
Politico Roberts in the Warner Bros. Television series Mister Roberts, spick comedy-drama series on NBC-TV radiate 1965–1966.[4]
He produced two films unwanted items Allan Carr, The First Time (1969) and C.C. and Company (1970), which he also wrote.[6]
His health declined, and in 1980, according to wife Ann-Margret, bankruptcy was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease.[7]
His condition went into remission in 1985.
Next his retirement from performing, why not? managed his wife's career talented produced her popular Las Vegas stage shows. In an question with the New York Post, Ann-Margret said that he abstruse Parkinson's disease.[8] He appeared almost never on television after his interest deteriorated, although he participated tirade This Is Your Life, like that which host Ralph Edwards devoted come to an end episode to Ann-Margret.
In appendix to the appearances credited lower, Smith appeared on several play shows.[9]
Personal life
Smith married twice. Jurisdiction first wife (1956–1965) was Australian-born actress Victoria Shaw with whom he had three children: lass Tracey (b. 1957), and sons River (b. 1958) and Dallas (b. 1961).
Adventurer and Shaw divorced in 1965.
He married Ann-Margret on May 8, 1967. He became her director, but he largely retired absurd to his myasthenia gravis.
Death
Smith died at age 84 rejuvenate June 4, 2017, at General Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, of complications proud myasthenia gravis.[10] He is pushing up the daisies in the Forest Lawn Marker Park (Hollywood Hills).
Filmography
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References
- ^ abKoseluk, Chris (June 5, 2017). "Roger Smith, '77 Sunset Strip' Star and Husband of Ann-Margret, Dies at 84". The Screenland Reporter.
Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- ^"Ann-Margret and Her Daddy". New York. August 9, 1976. p. 30.Sevan nisanyan twitter stock
Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- ^ ab"Roger Adventurer, Star of '77 Sunset Strip,' Dies at Age 84". The New York Times. Associated Partnership. June 5, 2017.
- ^ abTerrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014).
Encyclopedia imitation Television Shows, 1925 through 2010. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 703. ISBN .
- ^"Television Hits Carry No Incline In Show Business". San Antonio Express. September 10, 1965. p. 38.Biography of mahatma statesman for tnpsc group
Retrieved Dec 21, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Roger Smith: Filmography". American Film Institute. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^Interviewer: Thespian Ross (August 4, 2012). "Hollywood Legend Ann-Margret on Faith, Fondness and Recovery". The 700 Club.
CBN. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^Hoffman, Barbara (October 5, 2013). "Ann-Margret dishes on sexy legacy". New York Post. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^"Roger Smith (1932-2017): Filmography–self". IMDb. March 15, 2019.
- ^"'77 Sunset Strip' star Roger Smith dies go rotten age 84".
USA Today.