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Actor Born: June 24, 1904 in Linton, Indiana Death: August 11, 1995 in Rancho Mirage, CA Biography:When drummer/bandleader "Phil Harris" made his screen debut in the RKO short So This is Harris (1933), his screen image was that of a wavy-haired Lothario, utterly irresistible to women. When Harris became a regular on "Jack Benny"'s radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 1940s, his persona began taking on elements of self-parody, with a reputation for heavy imbibing thrown in for comic effect. Both the womanizing and drinking aspects of the "public" Harris were allowed to lapse on his own radio series, "The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show", in which he co-starred from 1946 to 1954 with his second wife, screen star "Alice Faye". Now Harris was depicted as a rumbly-voiced, good-natured schmo, who was easily outclassed intellectually by his wife and his two daughters. During this period, Harris, whose previous song hits included the rapid-fire "That's What I Like About the South," began making such child-oriented... Full Biography
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