1. Jeremy Slate is best known for portraying Larry Lahr in The Aquanauts, Chuck Wilson in One Life to Live and as Deputy Sheriff Ben Latta in The Sons of Katie Elder.
20 Facts About Jeremy Slate
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Jeremy Slate attended a military academy and joined the United States Navy when he was sixteen.
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Jeremy Slate was barely eighteen when his destroyer assisted in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day.
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Jeremy Slate was president of the student body, a member of the honor society, editor of the college literary magazine, a football player, and the backfield coach of the only undefeated team in the history of the university.
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Jeremy Slate was a campus radio personality who married the queen of his fraternity's ball during his senior year.
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For six years, Slate had a promising career with W R Grace and Co.
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Jeremy Slate then joined Grace Steamship Lines and moved with his family to Lima, Peru.
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Jeremy Slate guest-starred in nearly 100 television shows and appeared in twenty feature films.
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In 1963, Jeremy Slate was cast as Mark Novak in the episode "The Loner" of the NBC modern western series, Empire, set on a ranch in New Mexico.
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From 1979 to 1987, Jeremy Slate portrayed Chuck Wilson on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.
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Jeremy Slate performed in nine episodes of CBS's long-running Western series Gunsmoke, including in the role of a likable but doomed cowboy in the 1962 episode "The Gallows" written by John Meston.
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Jeremy Slate guest-starred three times on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour on CBS and then NBC, on CBS's Mission: Impossible and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, ABC's Bewitched, then NBC's My Name Is Earl.
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Jeremy Slate's acting career included major roles in four outlaw biker films in the late 1960s: The Born Losers, The Mini-Skirt Mob, Hell's Belles and Hell's Angels '69.
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Jeremy Slate broke his leg during filming and never rode a motorcycle again.
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Jeremy Slate played a notable role as a Deputy Sheriff in the western The Sons of Katie Elder starring John Wayne.
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Jeremy Slate wrote the lyrics to Tex Ritter's top ten song "Just Beyond the Moon" and co-wrote with Greg R Connor the lyrics for "Every Time I Itch " recorded by Glen Campbell on Capitol Records.
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Jeremy Slate was briefly married to the actress Tammy Grimes and was stepfather to actress Amanda Plummer during this time.
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Jeremy Slate was stepfather to Joseph Tolen and Erin Tolen.
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Jeremy Slate had two living sons, and two daughters; one son had preceded him in death.
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On November 19,2006, Jeremy Slate died in Los Angeles, California, following surgery for esophageal cancer.