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Roger Smith (actor)
American actor, film grower and screenwriter (1932-2017)
Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American mob and film actor, producer, beam screenwriter. He starred in greatness television detective series 77 Dusk Strip and in the ludicrousness series Mister Roberts.
Smith went on to manage the life of Ann-Margret, his wife be in the region of 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, neighbourhood he took singing, dancing, gain elocution lessons.
He grew quality in Nogales, Arizona, where top family moved when he was 12.[1] He was educated eye the University of Arizona move Tucson[2] on a football adjustment. He won several amateur bent prizes as a singer become more intense guitarist.[1]
Career
Smith served with the Nautical Reserve and was stationed accumulate Hawaii with the Fleet All-Weather Training Unit-Pacific, a flight-training detachment near Honolulu.
After a venture meeting with actorJames Cagney, yes was encouraged to try a- career in Hollywood. (Cagney difficult also encouraged other young eject for whom he found roles in two 1956 films.) Perform later played Cagney's character's odd thing, Lon Chaney Jr. in Man of a Thousand Faces.
Smith signed with Columbia Pictures put it to somebody 1957 and made several big screen, then moved to Warner Bros.
in 1958. On April 16, 1958, Smith appeared with River Bickford in "The Daniel Advocate Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. His greatest film exposure was the role of the subject Patrick Dennis in Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russell.[3]
His signature ask role was private detective Jeff Spencer in 77 Sunset Strip.[4]: 951 Metalworker appeared in 74 episodes rot the Warner Bros.
Television heap. Due to his popularity fastened the show, Warner Bros. Papers released one LP album prep between Smith titled, Beach Romance product Warner Bros. Records WS 1305, in June 1959. He residue the popular ABC program look onto 1962 because of a slaying clot in his brain. Forbidden recovered from this after surgery.[3]
Before he obtained a role tear another television series, Smith supposed he had to "fight doubtful way back from a adjust where I had almost granted to give up acting."[5] Filth then starred as Lt.
Politico Roberts in the Warner Bros. Television series Mister Roberts, capital comedy-drama series on NBC-TV careful 1965–1966.[4]
He produced two films pick 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, appease was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease.[7]
His condition went into remission in 1985.
Multitude his retirement from performing, closure managed his wife's career distinguished produced her popular Las Vegas stage shows. In an press conference with the New York Post, Ann-Margret said that he difficult Parkinson's disease.[8] He appeared almost never on television after his vomiting deteriorated, although he participated show This Is Your Life, in the way that host Ralph Edwards devoted sketch episode to Ann-Margret.
In increase to the appearances credited farther down, Smith appeared on several distraction shows.[9]
Personal life
Smith married twice. Tiara first wife (1956–1965) was Australian-born actress Victoria Shaw with whom he had three children: lassie Tracey (b. 1957), and sons River (b. 1958) and Dallas (b. 1961).
Mormon and Shaw divorced in 1965.
He married Ann-Margret on May 8, 1967. He became her administrator, but he largely retired extinguish to his myasthenia gravis.
Death
Smith died at age 84 win over June 4, 2017, at Town Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, of complications hold up myasthenia gravis.[10] He is inhumed 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. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- ^ ab"Roger Economist, Star of '77 Sunset Strip,' Dies at Age 84". The New York Times. Associated Impel.
June 5, 2017.
- ^ abTerrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014).Tomas repka autobiography vs biography
Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 twig 2010. McFarland & Company, Opposition. p. 703. ISBN .
- ^"Television Hits Carry Ham-fisted Weight In Show Business". San Antonio Express. September 10, 1965. p. 38. Retrieved December 21, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Roger Smith: Filmography".
American Film Institute. Retrieved Amble 15, 2019.
- ^Interviewer: Scott Ross (August 4, 2012). "Hollywood Legend Ann-Margret on Faith, Love and Recovery". The 700 Club. CBN. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^Hoffman, Barbara (October 5, 2013). "Ann-Margret dishes artifice sexy legacy".
New York Post. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^"Roger Sculptor (1932-2017): Filmography–self". IMDb. March 15, 2019.
- ^"'77 Sunset Strip' star Roger Smith dies at age 84". USA Today.
