1. William Paul Lundigan was an American film actor.
26 Facts About William Lundigan
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William Lundigan graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path.
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Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard William Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.
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William Lundigan was in Armored Car billed as "Larry Parker".
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William Lundigan was back down the cast list for The Black Doll and Reckless Living but was the male lead for State Police.
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William Lundigan had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air, The Missing Guest, and Freshman Year.
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William Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up.
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William Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman.
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William Lundigan said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.
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William Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid, The Fighting 69th, 3 Cheers for the Irish, The Man Who Talked Too Much, Young America Flies, The Sea Hawk, Service with the Colors, East of the River, and Santa Fe Trail.
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William Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave for Republic Pictures.
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William Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds and The Courtship of Andy Hardy.
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William Lundigan was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch and had the second lead in Apache Trail and Northwest Rangers.
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William Lundigan reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life and supported in Dr Gillespie's Criminal Case and Salute to the Marines.
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William Lundigan enlisted in the US Marine Corps during World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a corporal.
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William Lundigan had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys and Dishonored Lady.
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William Lundigan was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico, State Department: File 649 and Follow Me Quietly.
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William Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford.
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William Lundigan was in The House on Telegraph Hill and Elopement, and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms and Serpent of the Nile.
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William Lundigan had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars, Dangerous Voyage and The White Orchid, the latter for Reginald Le Borg.
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William Lundigan mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles, including, in 1955, making a commercial for the Chrysler turbine engine.
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In 1961, William Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.
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In 1963 and 1964, William Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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William Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.
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William Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.
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William Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.