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Actor Born: July 4, 1924 in Santa, Monica CA Death: September 28, 1966 in Hullaga River, Peru Biography:The product of a profoundly unhappy home life, "Eric Fleming" ran away at age 11 to live the life of a Depression-era hobo. Making his way from California to New York, he worked at a series of dead-end jobs, at one point sweeping the floors of a whorehouse. After a stint with the Merchant Marine, he joined the Seabees at the outbreak of WWII. While lifting a 200-pound iron block, he miscalculated and the block fell directly on his face. Forced to undergo extensive plastic surgery, Fleming left the hospital with the craggy, weathered facial features that would ensure him steady if not always lucrative employment as an actor. Making his debut in a 1944 training film, he did stage work in Chicago and New York, and in 1951 starred on a DuMont TV network kiddie series "Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers". While his Hollywood film roles were largely confined to standard he-man heroics in such sci-fiers... Full Biography
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