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Dick York Biography

  • Birth Name: Richard Allen York
  • Birth Place: Fort Wayne, IN
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/04/1928, Virgo
  • Date of Death: 02/20/1992
  • Profession: Actor
Dick York Fast Facts:
  • Professional career began on radio shows in Chicago as a teen (when he met his future wife, Joan), including The Brewster Boy and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, and in educational short films for adolescents that covered subjects such as dating etiquette and safe driving.
  • In 1950, moved to New York, where he got a break with a part in the 1953 Broadway premiere of Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, directed by Elia Kazan. 
  • Known (and beloved) for playing Darrin Stephens, wife of Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery), on the sitcom Bewitched from 1964-69, was forced to leave the show due to a debilitating back injury suffered while filming the 1959 western They Came to Cordura (which starred Gary Cooper, Tab Hunter and Rita Hayworth), and was replaced by Dick Sargent.
  • Although bedridden and broke late in life due to emphysema and back problems, was a fund-raiser for Acting for Life, a charity he founded in the late 1980s to help the homeless.
  • Author of a posthumously published autobiography, The Seesaw Girl and Me: A Memoir; the Seesaw Girl of the book's title referred to his wife, whom he called "Joey."
    Dick York Relationships:
  • Bernard York - Father
  • Betty York - Mother
  • Christopher York - Son
  • Joan Alt - Wife
  • Kim - Daughter
  • Mandy - Daughter
  • Matthew York - Son
  • Stacie - Daughter
  • Vicki - Sister

  • Dick York Awards:
  • 1968 Emmy: Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series - Nominee

  • College:
  • Attended DePaul University, Chicago, IL
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