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Born in Fort Wayne; Darrin Stephens on Bewitched, a role he left after a back injury ended his run, one of television's most famous mid-series recastings.
Richard Allen York was born 4 September 1928 in Fort Wayne, the son of a salesman and a seamstress, and grew up in Chicago, where he was acting on radio by the age of fifteen. His film and television career was rising — he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960) — when, filming the western They Came to Cordura in 1959, he tore the muscles along the right side of his back lifting a railroad handcar. The injury never healed. Cast in 1964 as Darrin Stephens, the mortal husband on Bewitched, he played the role for 170 episodes and an Emmy nomination in 1968, working through worsening pain until he collapsed on set and left the series in 1969. Bedridden for long stretches afterward, he founded Acting for Life, a private fundraising effort for the homeless that he ran from his home. He died of complications from emphysema at East Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 20 February 1992.
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