Dick York

Age: 63 (passed away Feb. 20th, 1992)
Height: 6' 1"

Birth Place: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Born: Sep. 4th, 1928

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Dick York's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Bewitched	Darrin Step…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

The gangly York is best remembered as the first and most frustrated "Darrin Stephens" on the long-running TV series "Bewitched" (1964). He left the series in 1969 due to a chronic back ailment. He later founded Acting for Life, a private fund-raising effort for the homeless, which he managed from his home where he was bedridden with a degenerative spine injury.

TRIVIA:

Was left impoverished in 1976 after a real estate investment failed, and was on welfare for a time.
Moved to Michigan in the mid-80s to care for his wife's ill mother, and was diagnosed with emphysema shortly after.
Played jailed teacher Bertram T. Cates in both the cinematic release _Inherit the Wind (1960)_ (qv) and and the television movie _Inherit the Wind (1965) (TV)_ (qv).
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Darrin Stephens in Bewitched (1964).
He and his family suffered during the depression from starvation and loss of money. York said that what had inspired him to start his charity Acting for Life which helped the homeless.
Buried at Plainfield Cemetery, Rockford, Kent County, Michigan.
At the age of 15, York was the star of the network radio program "That Brewster Boy"
York first injured his back while working on the 1959 film _They Came to Cordura (1959)_ (qv).

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