1. Vince Edwards was best known for his TV role as Dr Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.
14 Facts About Vince Edwards
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Vince Edwards studied aviation mechanics at East New York Vocational High School, graduating in June 1944 at the age of 15.
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Vince Edwards was a standout on his high school swim team, playing on the school's baseball and track teams.
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Vince Edwards studied at Ohio State University on an athletic scholarship.
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Vince Edwards was part of the university's team that won the United States Swimming National Championships.
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Vince Edwards was represented by one of Hollywood's first "super agents", Abby Greshler of Diamond Artists in Hollywood.
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In 1970, Vince Edwards starred in another TV series, the short-lived Matt Lincoln.
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Vince Edwards continued to act in film as well as in guest spots on television, including roles in The Rhinemann Exchange, Evening in Byzantium, and the pilot episode of Knight Rider, "Knight of the Phoenix", in 1982.
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Vince Edwards directed a number of episodes in a variety of television series including the original Battlestar Galactica.
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Vince Edwards was the voice of Jake Rockwell in the 1986 animated series Centurions.
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Twenty-two years after the series ended, Vince Edwards returned to television as Dr Ben Casey in a 1988 TV movie, The Return of Ben Casey.
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Vince Edwards made his last film, The Fear, in 1995.
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Vince Edwards died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles, California, on March 11,1996.
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Vince Edwards was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.