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Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Actor Born: August 12, 1926 in Hollywood, CA Death: May 22, 1998 in Santa Maria, CA Biography:"John Derek" was the son of writer/director Lawson Harris and bit-actress "Dolores Johnson". Signed by "David O. Selznick" in 1943, Derek made his film debut as an extra in "Since You Went Away", playing a soldier--which indeed he was at the time. His first starring role was as a death-row juvenile delinquent in Columbia's "Knock on Any Door" (1949), in which he was given more screen time than nominal star "Humphrey Bogart". Most of Derek's subsequent Columbia assignments were in workaday "B" costume pictures and westerns; he enjoyed his best role in years, that of John Wilkes Booth, in 20th Century-Fox's "Prince of Players" (1954). By 1961, Derek's film career was seriously flagging, obliging him to sign on as one of the stars of the 26-week TV series Frontier Circus. Unhappy with his progress (or lack of it) as an actor, Derek turned director for the 1966 wartime flick "Once Before I Die". Derek has... Full Biography
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