Edmund Dantes Urick, known professionally as Ed Ames or Eddie Ames, was an American pop singer and actor.
14 Facts About Ed Ames
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Ed Ames was part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, the Ames Brothers.
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Ed Ames was the youngest of nine children, five boys and four girls.
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Ed Ames attended the Boston Latin School and was educated in classical and opera music, as well as literature.
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Ed Ames played Chief Bromden in the Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, opposite Kirk Douglas.
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Ed Ames's character's father was an English officer, the Fourth Earl of Dunmore, played in the show by Walter Pidgeon.
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Ed Ames played a wanted murderer holed-up in a hotel during a smallpox quarantine on a 1962 The Rifleman episode, and guest-starred as Kennedy in the 1963 episode "The Day of the Pawnees, Part 2" on ABC's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, with Kurt Russell in the title role.
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Ed Ames guest-starred in 1963 on Richard Egan's NBC modern western series, Redigo.
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Ed Ames agreed, and a wood panel with a chalk outline of a cowboy was brought on to the stage.
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Later in his career Ed Ames became a fixture on the Kenley Players circuit, headlining in Shenandoah, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Camelot, and Man of La Mancha.
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Ed Ames released his first RCA Victor chart single, "Try to Remember".
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Ed Ames married Sarita Cacheiro in 1947 and they had three children, Sonya, Ronald, and Linda.
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At the age of 47, Ed Ames, saying "I am a secular Jew, but I feel strongly about Israel and the Jewish communities of Europe", became president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Zionist Organization of America.
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Ed Ames died at his Los Angeles home on May 21,2023, at the age of 95.