38 Facts About James MacArthur

James Gordon MacArthur was an American actor and recording artist.

James MacArthur had a long career in both movies and television, and his early work was predominantly in supporting roles in films.

James MacArthur was raised in Nyack, New York along with his elder sister, the MacArthurs' biological daughter Mary, who died of polio in 1949.

James MacArthur was educated at Allen-Stevenson School in New York and later at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he starred in basketball, football and baseball.

James MacArthur dated fellow student and future actress Joyce Bulifant, whom he married in November 1958 and divorced nine years later.

James MacArthur was raised among people of literary and theatrical talent.

James MacArthur made his stage debut in Olney, Maryland in 1949 with a two-week stint in The Corn Is Green.

James MacArthur became involved in important Broadway productions only after receiving his training in summer-stock theater.

James MacArthur worked as a set painter, lighting director and chief of the parking lot.

James MacArthur helped the theater's electrician and became so interested that he was allowed to remain after his mother's plays had ended.

James MacArthur's performance was again critically acclaimed, earning him a nomination for Most Promising Newcomer at the 1958 BAFTA awards.

In late 1956, it was announced that MacArthur would make Underdog, based on a novel by W R Burnett, along with his mother and Susan Strasberg, but the project never materialized.

James MacArthur returned to television to appear in World in White and episodes of General Electric Theater, Studio One in Hollywood and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

James MacArthur was selected by Walt Disney to star in The Light in the Forest, playing a white man raised by Indians.

However, James MacArthur was only available to work during his summer vacation from Harvard, where he was studying history.

James MacArthur was named a possibility for Bon Voyage but did not appear in the film.

James MacArthur made his Broadway debut in 1960 playing opposite Jane Fonda in Invitation to a March, for which he received a Theatre World Award.

James MacArthur released several records in the early 1960s, scoring two minor hits with " The In-Between Years" and "The Ten Commandments of Love", which peaked at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.

James MacArthur delivered a chilling performance as baby-faced opium dealer Johnny Lubin in The Untouchables episode "Death For Sale".

James MacArthur appeared in episodes of the television shows Bus Stop and Wagon Train.

James MacArthur returned to feature films as one of several young actors in The Interns, Columbia's popular medical drama.

In 1963, James MacArthur was nominated for the Top New Male Personality category of the Golden Laurel Awards.

James MacArthur guest-starred on the television shows Burke's Law, The Eleventh Hour and The Great Adventure, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour before appearing in the feature films The Truth About Spring and The Bedford Incident, both in 1965.

In Battle of the Bulge, James MacArthur again played the role of a young and inexperienced officer.

James MacArthur returned to Disney to appear in Willie and the Yank for television, released theatrically as Mosby's Marauders.

James MacArthur had a role in The Love-Ins for Sam Katzman and a brief but memorable appearance in the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High as a preacher.

Tim O'Kelly was originally cast as Jack Lord's assistant, but test audiences felt that he was too young, so James MacArthur was offered the role.

James MacArthur left the show in 1979, feeling that it had become bland and predictable.

James MacArthur had to change in the prop truck for eleven years.

James MacArthur appeared in the miniseries Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story and The Night the Bridge Fell Down.

James MacArthur returned to the stage, appearing in A Bedfull of Foreigners in Chicago in 1984 and in Michigan in 1985.

James MacArthur followed this with The Hasty Heart before taking a year out of showbusiness.

James MacArthur appeared at conventions, collectors' shows and celebrity sporting events.

James MacArthur appeared in television and radio specials and on interview programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Christopher's Closeup and the BBC Radio 5 Live obituary program Brief Lives, in which he paid tribute to his Hawaii Five-O castmate Kam Fong.

In 1997, James MacArthur returned without Jack Lord to reprise his character, who had become Hawaii's governor, in the 1997 unaired reboot pilot of Hawaii Five-O.

Negotiations were under way in Summer 2010 for James MacArthur to make a cameo appearance in the new CBS primetime remake of Hawaii Five-0 at the time of his death, a role that eventually was offered to Al Harrington.

At the time of his death, James MacArthur was married to former LPGA golfer Helen Beth Duntz.

James MacArthur died on October 28,2010, at the age of 72 of unspecified causes in Florida.