Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue (January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American actor and a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in Man Afraid and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with A Summer Place that year. His most successful film was  (1961), in which he played the title character.

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Roscoe Browne

Actor, director, and narrator known for his rich voice and dignified bearing, Roscoe Lee Browne,  (May 2, 1925 – April 11, 2007) in Woodbury, New Jersey, the son of Sylvanus Browne, a Baptist minister, and Lovie Lee. A bright student who excelled in the study of literature, Browne graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1946 and did postgraduate work at Columbia University and the University of Florence in Italy.

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