Wayne Rogers was a regular panel member on the Fox News Channel stock investment television program Cashin' In as a result of having built a career as an investor, investment strategist, adviser, and money manager.
19 Facts About Wayne Rogers
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Wayne Rogers graduated from Princeton University in 1954 with a history degree, and was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the eating club Tiger Inn.
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Wayne Rogers played Slim Davis on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow in 1959.
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Wayne Rogers played a role in Odds Against Tomorrow, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1960 as Best Film Promoting International Understanding.
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Wayne Rogers guest starred on an episode of the CBS western Johnny Ringo.
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Wayne Rogers co-starred with Robert Bray and Richard Eyer in the western series Stagecoach West on ABC from 1960 to 1961.
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Wayne Rogers was cast as US Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt in 1965 in Death Valley Days.
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Wayne Rogers appeared on the Cannon episode "Call Unicorn" in 1971.
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Wayne Rogers found the character too cynical and asked to screen test as Trapper John, whose outlook was brighter.
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Wayne Rogers was told that Trapper and Hawkeye would have equal importance as characters.
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Wayne Rogers enjoyed working with Alda and the rest of the cast as a whole, but eventually chafed that the writers were devoting the show's best humorous and dramatic moments to Alda.
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Wayne Rogers then guest-starred five times in a recurring role on CBS's Murder, She Wrote.
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Wayne Rogers has served as an executive producer and producer in both television and film, and as a screenwriter, and a director.
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Wayne Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson, which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman in the television series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.
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In 1986, Wayne Rogers hosted the short-lived CBS television series High Risk.
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Wayne Rogers starred as Walter Duncan in the 1987 movie Race Against the Harvest.
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In 1990, Wayne Rogers co-starred with Connie Selleca in the CBS made-for-television movie Miracle Landing based on the true story of the 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 crash landing after an explosive cabin depressurization.
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Wayne Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005.
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Wayne Rogers died on December 31,2015, from complications of pneumonia in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 82.