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Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.

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David Simon
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: February 9
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David Judah Simon
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