Word: begley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Ed Begley, 69, winner of Hollywood's and Broadway's highest honors; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Begley started out in radio in 1931, was heard in a number of roles, including Charlie Chan, and was in his mid-40s before turning to films. He was usually cast as the heavy, won critical plaudits in The Great Gatsby, Twelve Angry Men, and most notably, Sweet Bird of Youth, which gained him a 1962 Oscar. Broadway audiences remember him best as the glowering Matthew Harrison Brady in 1955's Inherit the Wind, for which...