Biographies: Richard Reeves - Actor

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An American actor, born in New York, USA on August 10, 1912 and died in Northridge, California, USA on March 17, 1967 from cirrhosis of the liver. He won a Grammy Award in 2016. His most important works are Adventures of Superman (1952-1956), Two Faces West (1960), Target Earth (1954), and Day of Triumph 1954. He performed hundreds of film and television roles from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was born to a bank manager in Queens, New York, and he studied music at school. At the age of eighteen, he worked as a sailor and spent the thirties on board ships. He joined the United States Army during World War II and participated in the movie This is the Army (1943). After the war, he entered the cinematic field, and after several films in small roles. He presented his first major role in the movie, Finders Keepers (1951). He turned to television work and played the roles of the bossy strongman, thief, and gang member in crime dramas and many American Western series and comedy series. His last work was Casino Royale (1967), and he died in the same year of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 54.

• 6 October 2021
• Christina Aziz