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- John Derek, The Ten Commandments, 1954.
- Omar Sharif, Funny Girl, 1968. Lucky escape for TV’s Ben Casey, 1961-66. (Likewise for Sydney Chaplin, Terence Cooper, Tony Curtis). As Roger Ebert saw it: “There has rarely been a more wooden male performance in a musical.”
- Bruce Dern, The Cowboys, 1972. “Because I’m the only actor who ever killed John Wayne in a picture,” said Bruce, “producers have pegged me for a villain. I’d worked with him before, a little role in The War Wagon. He didn’t OK me then - too small a part for him to worry about. But he was concerned about the guy who was the first to nail him, you know. Another actor [TV's former Ben Casey] almost played the role. I think Wayne intervened a little bit for me.”
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