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William Redfield
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Actor Born: January 26, 1927 in New York City, NY Death: 1976 in New York City Biography:The son of a Manhattan orchestra conductor and a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, little "Billy Redfield" made his Broadway bow at age 9 in Swing Your Lady. Billy launched his radio career around the same time, and made his earliest movie appearance in 1939. As adult actor "William Redfield", he was one of the original founders of the influential Actors Studio. While his film assignments of the 1950s and 1960s were unremarkable (as Captain Owens in 1966's "Fantastic Voyage", for example, he played third fiddle to the special effects and "Raquel Welch"'s diving suit), he remained a much-in-demand stage performer, and also proved a delightful raconteur on such TV chatfests as The Tonight Show. His reminiscences of the ups and downs of the acting profession were candid and perceptive without ever descending into maliciousness; many of his best anecdotes were self-deprecatory, notably his oft-repeated... Full Biography
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