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Dick York is a Actor American born on 4 september 1928 at New York City (USA)

Dick York

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Birth name Richard Allen York
Nationality USA
Birth 4 september 1928 at New York City (USA)
Death 20 february 1992 (at 63 years) at Grand Rapids (USA)

Richard Allen "Dick" York (September 4, 1928 – February 20, 1992) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best known motion picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind.

Biography

Dick York naît le 4 septembre 1928 à Fort Wayne (Indiana) et débute à 15 ans à la radio, dans des feuilletons radiophoniques à Chicago. En 1950, il déménage à New York pour débuter sur les planches à Broadway. Il est engagé par Elia Kazan pour la pièce Tea and Sympathy qui lance sa carrière. Il épouse à cette époque Joan Alt, avec qui il aura 5 enfants.

Il fait ses débuts au cinéma en 1955 aux côtés de Janet Leigh et de Jack Lemmon dans le film Ma sœur est du tonnerre. Il enchaîne alors films et émissions de télévision, et tourne avec des acteurs prestigieux comme Gary Cooper et Rita Hayworth dans Ceux de Cordura ou Spencer Tracy et Gene Kelly dans Procès de singe.

Lors des derniers jours de tournage du film Ceux de Cordura (1959) avec Gary Cooper, il est victime d'un grave accident qui va gâcher sa vie puis sa carrière.
Le drame se produisit pendant une scène où quelques acteurs devaient utiliser un chariot sur rail (à pompe). Quelque chose a mal tourné au moment où le metteur en scène dit « Coupez ! » et la plateforme roulante partit trop vite, quitta les rails et se renversa sur le dos de Dick lui déchirant les muscles et atteignant l'épine dorsale. La guérison ne s'étant pas faite correctement, Dick York a eu recours à des médicaments analgésiques. Au cours des ans le mal devint plus intense et l'acteur tomba sous la dépendance des anti-douleurs.
Il continue cependant de tourner pour la télévision, notamment dans la série Ma sorcière bien-aimée à partir de 1964.
Souffrant beaucoup, il est constamment sous analgésiques pendant le tournage. La combinaison de ces produits lui causa des malaises qui forcèrent les producteurs à songer à son remplacement tant les retards s'accumulent. La production choisit d'abord d'alléger sa présence dans les épisodes mais l'audience s'en ressent, l'intérêt de la série reposant sur la relation sorcière/homme normal. En 1969, Dick renonce finalement à son rôle — il sera remplacé par Dick Sargent — et sa santé l'écarte presque totalement des studios.

Après des années d'hôpital, de médicaments et de drogues, il réapparaît un peu dans les années 1980, où on peut le voir par exemple en 1982 dans un épisode de L'Île fantastique ou encore dans la série Simon et Simon.

Suite à un investissement financier désastreux, il se retrouve ruiné et vit avec sa famille de l'aide sociale. Avec sa femme Joan, il s'intéresse à la condition des sans-abris et agit en leur faveur. Il est cloué chez lui mais agit par téléphone, motivant politiques, artistes et hommes d'affaires par ce biais.

Il meurt d'un emphysème (dû à son passé de grand fumeur) le 20 février 1992 à Grand Rapids (Michigan). Il est enterré au cimetière de Plainfield à Rockford (Michigan).

Ses mémoires, The Seesaw Girl and Me, paraissent après sa mort. Il y raconte notamment son grand amour pour sa femme Joan (Joey), restée auprès de lui tout au long de sa vie.

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Filmography of Dick York (11 films)

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Predestination, 1h37
Directed by Michael et Peter Spierig
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Time travel films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Temporal paradox, Dystopian films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West, Freya Stafford, Tyler Coppin
Roles Darrin Stephens in Bewitched (archive)
Rating74% 3.7003353.7003353.7003353.7003353.700335
The movie begins in medias res when a time travelling agent is disarming a bomb, which however explodes and burns his face. Someone approaches and helps him to grasp his time travelling device, bringing him to a hospital in the future. While the agent is recovering from facial reconstruction, we learn that he had been trying to avoid the "Fizzle Bomber's" attack on New York, in 1975. After his recovery he receives his last assignment.
Bewitched
Bewitched (2005)
, 1h42
Directed by Nora Ephron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about television, Witches in film
Actors Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth
Roles Darrin Stephens (archive)
Rating48% 2.4026352.4026352.4026352.4026352.402635
Jack Wyatt is a narcissistic actor who is approached to play the role of Darrin in a remake of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, but insists that an unknown play Samantha. Isabel Bigelow is an actual witch who decides she wants to be normal and moves to Los Angeles to start a new life and becomes friends with her neighbor Maria. She goes to a bookstore to learn how to get a job after seeing an advertisement of Ed McMahon on TV. Jack happens to be at the same bookstore after attending some failed Samantha auditions. Jack spots Isabel and persuades her to audition. At the same time, while she's trying to settle into her new life, Isabel's intrusive father Nigel keeps appearing to convince her to return home, despite several rejections from Isabel.
Inherit the Wind, 2h8
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan
Roles Bertram T. Cates
Rating80% 4.0471254.0471254.0471254.0471254.047125
In a small Southern town, a school teacher, Bertram Cates, is about to stand trial. His offense: violating a state law by introducing to his students the concept that man descended from the apes, a theory of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Cates is vigorously denounced by town leaders such as the Rev. Jeremiah Brown.
They Came to Cordura, 2h3
Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Dick York, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte
Roles Pvt. Wilbur James Renziehausen
Rating63% 3.1992653.1992653.1992653.1992653.199265
In 1916, as U.S. soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas Thorn (Gary Cooper) is assigned to be a battlefield observer and reward heroism. He has been suggested for this duty by a Colonel Rogers (Robert Keith), who is 63 years old and impatiently yearning to be promoted to general before mandatory retirement a few months hence.
The Last Blitzkrieg, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Van Johnson, Dick York, Kerwin Mathews, Larry Storch, Lise Bourdin, Leon Askin
Roles Sergeant Otto Ludwig
Rating58% 2.9040552.9040552.9040552.9040552.904055
Several American GIs plan an escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp. Among them is a German, Lt. Hans von Kroner, known to them as Sgt. Richardson, who is working undercover, spying on the prisoners and polishing up his American English. Reporting the escape plan to the Camp Commandant, Von Kroner is told he is being removed from the camp as part of a top secret project gathering all fluent English-speaking members of the Wehrmacht for an unstated reason.
Cowboy
Cowboy (1958)
, 1h32
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Dick York, King Donovan, Brian Donlevy
Roles Charlie, Trailhand
Rating66% 3.34563.34563.34563.34563.3456
Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of being a cowboy and has fallen in love with Maria (Anna Kashfi), the daughter of hotel guest and Mexican cattle baron Señor Vidal (Donald Randolph). When Señor Vidal finds out, he orders Harris to stay away.
Operation Mad Ball, 1h45
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Crosby, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Rooney, Arthur O'Connell, Dick York
Roles Cpl. Bohun
Rating64% 3.246983.246983.246983.246983.24698
In a hospital unit in the U.S. Army in Europe after World War II, Private Hogan (Jack Lemmon) does not believe that a blue-stocking can be good-looking, but the first sight of dietetic nurse Lieutenant Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant) sets him straight. When he picks her cigarette lighter up and puts his weapon aside, he is surprísed by security officer Paul Locke (Ernie Kovacs) who admonishes him for putting down his weapon while on guard duty and confines him to quarters preliminary to a court martial. The Colonel in charge of the unit (Arthur O'Connell), however, would prefer to keep everything "in the family" and avoid a court martial.
My Sister Eileen, 1h48
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Horace McMahon, Bob Fosse, Tommy Rall
Roles Ted Loomis
Rating67% 3.395863.395863.395863.395863.39586
Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopolous. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen hopes to achieve success as an actress. They become acquainted with their neighbor Ted Loomis, an athlete who lives with his fiancée Helen.
Them!
Them! (1954)
, 1h34
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, William Schallert, Fess Parker
Roles Teenager in Police Station
Rating71% 3.5966053.5966053.5966053.5966053.596605
New Mexico State Police troopers Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) and Ed Blackburn (Chris Drake) discover a little girl in shock, wandering the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. They retrace her steps to a mobile home owned by an FBI agent named Ellinson, who was on vacation in the area with his family. The side of the trailer was ripped open from the outside, the rest of the family is missing and no money was taken. A single unidentifiable animal track seems to be the only clue. Then a strange, pulsating high-pitched noise echos out of the desert on the wind. The little girl briefly reacts in fear when she hears the sound, but this is not noticed by those around her.