1. Mark Goddard is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space.
20 Facts About Mark Goddard
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Charles Harvey Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on July 24,1936.
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Mark Goddard was raised Roman Catholic and described himself as "almost a good Catholic".
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Mark Goddard led both his high school baseball and basketball teams to the state championship finals.
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Mark Goddard dreamed of becoming a basketball player but eventually turned to acting.
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Mark Goddard originally attended the College of the Holy Cross after high school but transferred and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
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Mark Goddard appeared as Norman Tabor in the 1960 episode "Surprise Party" of the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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Mark Goddard was cast as Sheldon Hollingsworth in the 1960 episode "To See the Elephant" of the ABC Western series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams.
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Mark Goddard was signed for a role lasting three years.
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Mark Goddard appeared as Roy Mooney on the Perry Mason 1963 episode "The Case of the Potted Planter" and in the 1965 episode "The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer" as Lester Crawford.
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In 1964, Mark Goddard appeared as Richard on The Virginian in the episode titled "The Secret of Brynmar Hall".
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Mark Goddard guest-starred on three ABC series, The Fugitive, The Mod Squad, and The Fall Guy and for a while, moonlighted as a Hollywood agent.
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In 1970, Mark Goddard co-starred with Kent McCord and Martin Milner in an episode of Adam-12, in which he plays a friend of Pete Malloy, who is killed in the line of duty.
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Mark Goddard played a supporting role in a 1974 episode of CBS's Barnaby Jones.
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In 1978, Mark Goddard starred with Liza Minnelli on Broadway in the musical The Act.
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Mark Goddard appeared as Ted Clayton on One Life to Live in 1981, and Lt.
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Mark Goddard made a cameo appearance in the 1998 reboot film Lost in Space as the general in charge of the Jupiter Mission and superior officer to his former character Major Don West.
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Mark Goddard finished college 30 years after beginning his studies and received his master's degree in education from Bridgewater State College.
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Mark Goddard met his third wife, English professor Evelyn Pezzulich, while at Bridgewater, and they married in 1990.
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Mark Goddard died from pulmonary fibrosis in Hingham, Massachusetts, on October 10,2023, at the age of 87.