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Michael Dunn (born Gary Neil Miller, reportedly on February 7, 1934 in Shattuck, Oklahoma; died August 30, 1973 in London) was a successful "little person American actor. is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Shattuck is a town located in Ellis County, Oklahoma. ...
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Early life
If the 1934 birthdate is accurate, he was one to two years younger than his classmates at Redford High School in Detroit, Michigan. Although not known for a distinctive program in drama, the high school, located in what was then a largely WASP area in northwest Detroit, also graduated such actors and television figures as Wally Cox ("Mr. Peepers"), George C. Scott, and Dick Martin of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. After graduating from Redford, Miller enrolled at the University of Miami, where fellow students took up a collection and gave him a 1951 Austin outfitted with hand controls. “Detroit†redirects here. ...
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Wallace Maynard Cox (December 6, 1924 – February 15, 1973) was a television and motion picture actor. ...
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. ...
Dick Martin (born January 30, 1922 in Battle Creek, Michigan) is an American comedian. ...
Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC network. ...
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Career He then went to New York, and to Hollywood, adopting the stage name of Michael Dunn. Dunn was probably best known for his recurring role as mad scientist Dr. Miguelito Loveless, perpetually pursued by Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West. In this role, he rejoined his former nightclub singing partner, Phoebe Dorin, who played Dr. Loveless's devoted assistant, Antoinette. In the pilot episode of Get Smart, Dunn played the diminutive Mr. Big, leader of international crime organization K.A.O.S. (it was the character's sole physical appearance in the series). Dunn also gained wide exposure in his role as Alexander, a courageous court jester, in the Star Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren. A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who is not a main character, but appears from time to time during the series run. ...
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Get Smart was an American comedy television series that satirized the secret agent genre. ...
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In 1963, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Cousin Lymon in the Edward Albee stage play, Ballad of the Sad Cafe. He also received an Oscar nomination for his role as the cynical Karl Glocken in Ship of Fools (Columbia Pictures, 1965, directed by Stanley Kramer). At the time of his death, he was in London filming The Abdication with Peter Finch and Liv Ullman (Warner Brothers, 1974, directed by Anthony Harvey). He had already been approached by author Günter Grass to play in a film adaptation of his novel, The Tin Drum, a role that ultimately went to the young David Bennent after Dunn's death. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ...
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Ship of Fools is a 1965 film which tells the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner during the 1930s. ...
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Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. ...
Peter Finch (September 28, 1912 – January 14, 1977) was an English-born actor with strong Australian connections. ...
Liv Ullmann (born December 16, 1939) is a Norwegian actress, author and film director. ...
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Günter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16, 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author. ...
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. ...
David Bennent is a swiss actor. ...
Dunn eschewed the usual "cute" typecasting of dwarf actors and pursued serious roles. He is said to have inspired a generation of dedicated dwarf actors, including Zelda Rubinstein, Mark Povinelli, and Ricardo Gil. Zelda Rubinstein (b. ...
Medical condition His dwarfism was a result of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED), a genetic defect that caused abnormal development of his limbs and spine and led to early, widespread osteoarthritis. He stood 3' 10" (117 cm) and weighed about 78 pounds (35 kg). Spinal deformities caused a distorted ribcage that restricted his lung growth and function which in turn led to cor pulmonale, a right heart strain, leading to his death at age 38. It is believed a prescription of two narcotics and a barbiturate for Dunn's severe arthritic pain, may have hastened his demise.[citation needed] Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita is an rare inherited disorder of bone growth that results in dwarfism, characteristic skeletal abnormalities, and problems with vision and hearing. ...
Osteoarthritis / Osteoarthrosis (OA, also known as degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease, arthrosis or in more colloquial terms wear and tear), is a condition in which low-grade inflammation results in pain in the joints, caused by wearing of the cartilage that covers and acts as a cushion inside joints. ...
Cor pulmonale, also known as right heart failure, is a medical term used to describe a change in structure and function of the right ventricle of the heart as a result of a respiratory disorder. ...
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Death Dunn was in England to play the role of Birgito in the production of "The Abdication,” when he died Aug. 30, 1973. According to a news report, officials said Dunn reported his leg was injured in his hotel room, and he telephoned for help. When help arrived, they found the actor dead.
Dunn was buried in Lauderdale Memorial Park Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, near his late parents' retirement home. A couple of years ago, during a visit to Dunn's grave there, relatives decided it was time to bring him home to Oklahoma. Nickname: Coordinates: , Country State County Broward Established 27 March 1911 Government - Type Commission-Manager - Mayor Jim Naugle Area - City 36. ...
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