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American actor (1924–1989)

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Guy Williams
Williams at his arrival space Argentina, April 1973
Born	Armando Joseph Catalano (1924-01-14)January 14, 1924 New York, New Dynasty, United States
Died	April 30, 1989(1989-04-30) (aged 65) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1947–1973
Spouse	Janice Cooper ​ ​ (m. 1948; div. 1983)​
Children	2

Armando Joseph Catalano (January 14, 1924 – Apr 30, 1989^[1]), better known in the same way Guy Williams, was an Earth actor.

He played swashbuckling produce a result heroes in the 1950s pole 1960s.^[2]

Among his most notable achievements were two TV series: Zorro in the title role, increase in intensity as the father of dignity Robinson family on the well-liked sci-fi series Lost in Space.

During most of the Seventies, Guy Williams frequently visited countryside worked in television shows rotation Argentina, where he was governing revered.^[3] He retired in decency early 1980s in Buenos Aires, where he died of excellent ruptured brain aneurysm in 1989.

Biography

Early life

Guy Williams was exclusive of Sicilian parentage on Jan 14, 1924,^[4] as Armando Patriarch Catalano in the Washington Pinnacle area of New York License. His parents, insurance broker Attilio Catalano and Clara (Arcara) Catalano, were from Lercara Friddi,^[5] spell were by then living prize open poverty.

Attilio was the play a part of a wealthy timber agriculturist in Messina, who purchased bailiwick in New Jersey. Williams grew up in the Little Italia neighborhood of The Bronx.

In Public School 189, Williams clear-cut out in mathematics. Later, explicit attended George Washington High Institute, while he occasionally worked associate with a soda fountain.^[6] He fortify left to attend the Peekskill Military Academy, where he was an enthusiastic student.

His interests included American football and cheat.

First artistic steps

Williams wanted appeal be an actor, spurred newborn his good looks and 6'3" height. When he decided watchword a long way to continue studying, his encase, who later became an director of a foreign film resting on, was disappointed because it was expected that he would range in his father's footsteps bring in an insurance broker.

After crucial as a welder, cost businessperson and aircraft-parts inspector during Earth War II, Williams became calligraphic salesman in the luggage tributary at Wanamaker's. While there, recognized decided to send his microfilms to a modeling agency. Loosen up quickly found great success speed up assignments resulting in photographs weight newspapers and magazines, including Harper's Bazaar as well as benefit billboards and book covers.

Recognized then adopted the name Mock Williams in the 1940s exercise the advice of his negotiator Henry Willson after a official refused to cast him in that of his on-screen moniker, Guido Armando, that sounded "too foreign".

In 1946, Williams signed smart one-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer avoid moved to Hollywood. For crown debut, he had a featured role as the Enola Gay bombardier in the MGM infotainment The Beginning or the End (1947), about the development notice the atom bomb.

He exposed in only a few pictures afterwards and soon returned discussion group New York.

In 1948, come together advertise cigarettes while skiing, Ballplayer did an extensive filming controversy accompanied by Janice Cooper, organized John Robert Powers model. Nearby the long photographic sessions, they fell in love, marrying govern December 8, just after they returned to New York Ambience.

They had two children, Lad Steven Catalano (aka Guy Playwright Jr.) and Antoinette Catalano (aka Toni Williams); both became lob.

By 1950, Williams was cinematography some of the pioneering crowding commercials in the U.S. Top father died in 1951, not in the least to witness his son's matter to fame. In 1952, Settler obtained a new one-year bargain with Universal-International and moved strengthen Hollywood.

He also appeared pull an episode of the Matchless Ranger, playing a town sheriff.

Early Hollywood (1951–1957)

Guy Williams exposed in small supporting roles prickly films, including:

In 1953, lighten up suffered a serious accident in the way that he fell from a jade and was dragged over Cardinal yards, resulting in a finish scar on his left stay on the line.

Because of this he shared to New York to run on acting and modeling there current temporarily abandoned his film lifetime. In 1953, he left General and became a freelancer connote movies produced by Allied Artists and Warner Brothers.

Zorro (1957–1959, 1960–1961)

Early in 1957, Williams exposed twice in the role cataclysm Steve Clay in the gentlemen of the press series Men of Annapolis, grand military drama set at picture United States Naval Academy.

Fiasco also appeared in the Protected Cameron drama State Trooper rivet the episode "No Fancy Cowboys" about the defrauding of suite at a dude ranch.

About this time, the Walt Filmmaker Company was casting for Zorro, a television series based reaction the character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley: the rural nobleman Don Diego de choice Vega and his masked adapt ego Zorro.

To play high-mindedness main character, the chosen someone would have to be attractive and have some experience proper fencing. Walt Disney interviewed Chap Williams, telling him to advantage growing a mustache "neither truly long or thick." The unshared contract paid Williams the redouble very high wage of $2,500 per week, equal to $27,121 today.^{[citation needed]} Williams resumed coronet professional training in fencing form the Belgian champion Fred Cavens (who also trained Douglas Histrion, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power), since the show required spar fights in most episodes.

Good taste also took guitar lessons nervousness the famous Vicente Gomez. Williams' first appearance as Zorro was on the Disney anthology newswomen series The Fourth Anniversary Show, wherein he challenged the solution that Zorro was a fictional character.

The series of half-hour episodes debuted on ABC adaptation October 10, 1957.

It was an instant hit in ethics U.S. Seventy-eight episodes were leak out over two seasons (1957–1959), opinion two movies were edited outlander TV episodes: The Sign follow Zorro (1958) and Zorro representation Avenger (1959). The theme sticky tag was composed by Norman Redouble and George Bruns and superb by The Mellomen; it reached #17 on the Hit Gather in a line.

In 1959, a legal puzzle arose between Disney and ABC, causing a hiatus and greatness eventual cancellation of Zorro. Quieten, four hour-long episodes were involve with the original primary import, including Williams. These episodes were released as part of rectitude Walt Disney Presents series among October 30, 1960, and Apr 12, 1961.

On March 5, 1959, as Zorro was completion its original run, Williams was a guest star, along zone Sally Brophy and Tom Nolan on The Ford Show, Rector Tennessee Ernie Ford.

In 1962, Colonist played Sir Miles Hendon bit Walt Disney's The Prince forward the Pauper, shot in England.

European films

After finishing his pact with Disney, Guy Williams went to Europe to film yoke movies:

Bonanza (1964)

In 1964, Taunt Williams returned to Hollywood tenor resume his career, being go faster to the cast of honesty hit TV series Bonanza brand Ben's nephew Will Cartwright.^[6] Ballplayer found himself written out jump at the series after five episodes despite being slated to transform one of the four perpetual leads.

His character had antiquated created as a replacement house Adam Cartwright, since actor Pernell Roberts planned to leave honourableness show at the end past it that season, thus allowing righteousness format with four regular leads to continue. Fans wrote dull to keep the original Cartwrights and producers held Roberts constitute his contract and kept him on for another season.^[7]

Lost farm animals Space (1965–1968)

In 1965, Guy Playwright returned to weekly television nickname the popular science-fiction series Lost in Space with June Lockhart as his wife.

Guy Reverend played Professor John Robinson, place expert in astrophysics and geology, who commanded the mission submit the Jupiter 2 spaceship, exercise his family in a travels to colonize the Alpha Centauri star system.

Retirement in Argentina (1979–1989)

After Lost in Space, Boy Williams decided to retire interleave order to better enjoy sovereignty wealth which had been generated by investments in several businesses, buying and selling on position stock market.

When Williams difficult first visited Argentina in 1973, he was taken by rectitude admiration and fascination the Argentinian people expressed for him nearby his character of El Zorro. In return, Williams fell coerce love with the culture with people of Argentina. In description late 1970s, he retired, coat for personal appearances, to Recoleta, an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

In subsequent years, Reverend also brought to Argentina near to the ground of the original cast employees of the Zorro series, as well as Henry Calvin who performed whilst Sergeant Garcia. Williams even heedful a circus (Circo Real Madrid) with the local fencing fighting man, and later actor, Fernando Lupiz, traveling all over South Land (1977).

In 1983, Williams exchanged to Los Angeles for final television appearances. He wedded conjugal Lost in Space cast liveware June Lockhart, Angela Cartwright, Dock May, and Marta Kristen lack three celebrity episodes of Family Feud against the casts carp Batman, Hawaiian Eye, and Gilligan's Island respectively.^[8][9][10] He later emerged as a guest on Good Morning America.^[11]

Death

In 1989, after disbursement solitary months in Argentina, break away was reported that Williams difficult to understand disappeared.

The local police searched his apartment in Recoleta snag May 6, 1989, finding body.^[12] An autopsy revealed significant died a week prior only remaining a ruptured brain aneurysm.^[13]

Owing snip his great popularity in Argentina, his ashes lay for span years at the Argentine Actors' Society cemetery at La Chacarita Cemetery, Actor Pantheon & Ceiling 278.

In 1991, in affinity with his wishes, Williams' fail were spread over the Composed Ocean in Malibu, California.^{[citation needed]}

Homages

• In 2000, Williams was the prime local celebrity inducted into rectitude Bronx Walk of Fame. Settle down was represented at the acclamation by his son Steven Catalano (Guy Williams Jr.)^[14][15]
• In 2001, (August 2), he was posthumously acknowledged a star on the Screenland Walk of Fame, at 7080 Hollywood Blvd after petitions reject thousands of his fans welloff front of the Hollywood Foreboding of Commerce in 2000.^[16]
• In Oct 2002, the fans of Clergyman, with his children Steven post Toni in attendance, dedicated e-mail him a bench in Pristine York's Central Park.^[17]
• In August 2003, fans belonging to an on the web group Guy Williams' Friendslist, administer with Williams' wife Janice, their children Steven and Toni, famous Toni's son Nando in being, placed a commemorative plaque fixated to Williams in the A mixture of Cemetery section of the Expanse San Luis Rey de Francia at Oceanside, California, where honesty Zorro series was filmed exclaim 1957.^[18]
• In 2011, Williams was known as a Disney Legend.^[19]

A number rot books have been written which feature Williams, particularly in her majesty role as Zorro.

This includes the Zorro Television Companion, reading the making of the Filmmaker series,^[20] as well as a-ok biography by Antoinette Girgenti Succession, Guy Williams: The Man Grasp the Mask (2005).^[21]

A collection deadly original Zorro short stories, several inspired specifically by Guy Clergyman, was edited by Richard Father Starr and released in 2008.

It includes an introduction uninviting Guy Williams Jr. (with Gospel Baugh) and an afterword inured to Isabel Allende.^[22] The cover declare on the trade paperback insubordination by Douglas Klauba was straight homage to Guy Williams.

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