1. Howard Caine played Lewis Morris of New York in the musical film 1776 and Everett Scovill, a thinly disguised portrait of Charles Manson's attorney Irving Kanarek, in the television movie Helter Skelter.
11 Facts About Howard Caine
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Howard Caine was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Howard Caine served in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1946, fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre.
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Howard Caine appeared on Broadway in Wonderful Town, Inherit the Wind, Lunatics and Lovers, and Tiger at the Gates.
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Howard Caine succeeded Ray Walston as "Mr Applegate" in the original production of Damn Yankees.
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Howard Caine was featured in such films as From the Terrace, Pay or Die, as the husband of the character portrayed by Judy Garland in Judgment at Nuremberg, Brushfire, The Man from the Diner's Club, Pressure Point, and Alvarez Kelly.
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Howard Caine co-starred with Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons in Watermelon Man.
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Howard Caine appeared in more than 750 live and filmed television programs, including the western series The Californians, Two Faces West, and The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters but is best remembered for his recurring role as Major Wolfgang Hochstetter on the popular 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
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From his early childhood in Tennessee, Howard Caine had always been fascinated with the Appalachian five-string bluegrass banjo and began mastering it in the mid-1960s.
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Howard Caine was a popular folk singer and appeared at a number of prominent folk clubs and folk festivals.
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Howard Caine died of a heart attack on December 28,1993, five days short of his 68th birthday.