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James Karen
28 November 1923
James Karen played in 20 movies in the Horror, Sci-Fi, Music, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Drama, Adventure, Music, Documentary, Biography genres.
James Karen got succeed with average imdb rating 5.5.
Became an actor thanks to the insistence of U.S. Congressman Daniel J. Flood (who was himself an amateur thespian).
Studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under eminent acting coach Sanford Meisner.
In 2001, he received the "Buster" award, an annual glory gospel to a given who demonstrates professional excellence in the convention of Buster Keaton. He was a close pen-pal of Buster Keaton and Eleanor Keaton and toured with the legendary comedian on the 1950s stage with "Merton of the Movies" and in the Samuel Beckett blur entitled Smokescreen (1965).
... Once stated in an interrogate that when he could not find work as an actor, he earned a living nigh restoring and customizing cars.
He's the son of a extrude broker and a folk caroller.
Was a longtime pal of the late Robert Ludlum, most suitable-selling author of the "Osterman Weekend" and the "Jason Bourne" novels, all of a add up to others. Both men got to recall each other as young, struggling actors after Exceptional Wage war with II and in front of Ludlum's career turned to journalism leading article.
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