Married. George C. Scott, 44, gruff, gifted American actor who refused to accept an Academy Award in 1971 for Patton; and Trish Van Devere, 31, actress (One Is a Lonely Number); he for the fourth time (after two marriages to Actress Colleen Dewhurst), she for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Died. Anthony Hauck Jr., 71, former New Jersey prosecutor whose rigorous, unrelenting cross-examination led to the 1935 conviction and eventual execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnap case; of a heart attack; in Flemington, N.J.
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Died. William Boyd, 74, whose portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy entertained youthful audiences for a quarter of a century; in South Laguna, Calif. The son of an Ohio farm laborer, Boyd went to Hollywood in 1915 in search of good times, glory and romance. A star of silent films, he earned more than $100,000 a year during the ’20s, but his career as a screen lover was over by 1935 when he made the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies. During the ’40s, Boyd shrewdly bought the TV rights to his old westerns, then began producing an additional 50 episodes for the home screen. Millions of TV moppets made Boyd their hero, bought Hopalong wallets, wallpaper and other products, and also made him a millionaire several times over.
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Died. Lord Fisher of Lambeth, 85, former Archbishop of Canterbury; of a stroke; in Sherborne, England. One of ten children born to a Victorian rector, Geoffrey Francis Fisher was crowned the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury—Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world’s 42 million-member Anglican Communion—in 1945. He opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man’s nuclear destruction might be God’s will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher was an ardent ecumenist and made a precedent-setting visit in 1960 to Rome, where he met with Pope John XXIII.
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Died. Max Fleischer, 89, dean of movie cartoonists, who in the ’20s and ’30s brought to the screen Popeye the Sailor, Betty Boop and the “Out of the Inkwell” cartoon series; in Los Angeles. Fleischer’s first animated feature, made in 1917, took a year to create and ran less than one minute. During the next two decades he acquired more than two dozen patents for his technical production innovations, which helped make animated cartoons a major part of the movie industry.
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