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DICK SARGENT

Dick Sargent's mother, Ruth McNaughton, daughter of John McNaughton who founded Los Angeles famed Union Stockyards, had important supporting roles in such screen classics as "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Hearts and Trumps" with the great Nazimova. She appeared under the 'nom-de-arte' of Ruth Powell.

Dick sargent biography death Read Edit View history. Throughout his life, Sargent never married, although there were rumors that he was divorced. Parts: The Clonus Horror. A longtime supporter of the Special Olympics, Sargent was soon a highly visible advocate of gay rights as well.

Dick's father, Col. Elmer Cox, war hero, land developer, boxing promoter, investor, world traveler, was business manager of Eric Von Stroheim and Douglas Fairbanks. He appeared in Von Stroheim's daring film, "foolish wives".

When Dick was born in Carmel, California, his parents were in retirement. Dick enrolled at San Rafael Military Academy near San Francisco, and at Menlo High School, in Menlo Park.

While attending Stanford University, Dick starred in some 25 plays with the Stanford Studio Players Theatre. Upon his graduation, he won a bit role in MGM's "Prisoner of War", and changed his name to Sargent.

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In the lean period thereafter, he sustained his hopes and needs with a variety of non-theatrical employments. He even dug ditches. Leaving a job as a department store salesman, he journeyed to the colonial city of San Miguel Allende in Mexico to enter the import-export business. He began a continuing collection of Mexican art and became a life-long aficionado of Latin America.

However, the business folded and he returned to Hollywood and TV roles on "Medic", "Playhouse 90", "Gunsmoke", "Ripcord", "West Point", and "Code 3".

In his first major motion picture role - in "Bernadine" - Dick won a "Laurel Award" from the nation's film exhibitors as one of the ten most promising newcomers of the year.

Bigger guest-starring roles followed on such shows as "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "Wagon Train", "Dr.

Actor dick sargent biography LA Times Studios. He began a continuing collection of Mexican art and became a life-long aficionado of Latin America. The Tammy Grimes Show. On National Coming Out Day in , Sargent publicly declared his homosexuality and his support of gay rights causes.

Kildare", and "Hazel". For a season, he starred in the NBC-TV series "One Happy Family". Then Universal put Dick in "Operation Petticoat" with Cary Grant. That studio used him again in "The Great Imposter", "That Touch of Mink", "For Love Or Money" and "Captain Newman, M.D.". He also did the Universal series "Broadside", airing on ABC.

Sargent lives in Hollywood Hills in a two-story house which bears his imprint in the selection of paintings and art objects and landscaping. Dick's taste tends toward Early American design. Shy of marriage due to a hasty wedlock which ended in divorce, Dick finds bachelorhood best suited to this phase of his growing career.

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As time allows, he relaxes by swimming and surfing along the Pacific Coast. Sharing the hilltop retreat with Dick are two dogs, both mutts, Orson and Folly.