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I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

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Dick York
Age: 63 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 4
Died: 1992
Died: February 20
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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