Biographies: Jeff Richards - Actor

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An American actor who was born in Portland, Oregon, on November 1, 1924 as Richard Mansfield Taylor. Jeff Richards won a Golden Globe in 1955. Among Jeff Richards' most important movies: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and Don't Go Near the Water (1957). Jeff Richards graduated from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington. Later on, he signed a contract with Paramount Pictures, and played the role of a baseball player in the movie Kill the Umpire (1950). He received an offer from Warner Bros. Pictures and was allowed to join the University of Southern California to obtain a degree in business administration. In 1950, he signed a contract with MGM and presented 40 films with them during the fifties and sixties, in which Hollywood stars participated, After his retirement from acting, he implemented many Hollywood studio projects. He died in Victorville, California, on July 28, 1989 from acute respiratory failure.