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1936 or 1937 – 2012 · born in South Bend
The fame: Chad Everett was Dr. Joe Gannon — the face of CBS's Medical Center for its whole run (1969–1976), one of the defining television doctors of his era — across a screen career of more than forty films and television series, from The Dakotas and Surfside 6 through Mulholland Drive and a late run of guest leads.
The tie, exactly: Everett was born in South Bend — born Raymon Lee Cramton — and the tie is the birth, stated at that strength and no stronger. His father worked as an auto-parts salesman, and the family relocated to Dearborn, Michigan, for the work while Everett was a boy. He was raised in Michigan, went to Fordson High School in Dearborn and to Wayne State, and his South Bend chapter is a birth certificate and an infancy. He belongs in this section — a nationally known leading man born in the city — and the file declines to make him a hometown product. He was not one.
A conflict in the record: The sources split on his birth year: 1937 (the Los Angeles Times obituary and the standard references) against 1936 (a run of television listings). The heading of this entry carries both, as the record does.
The end: Everett died on July 24, 2012, in Los Angeles, of lung cancer.
Sources:
- Los Angeles Times obituary (2012) — the South Bend birth, the Medical Center years, the death.
- Ann Arbor District Library biographical record — the birth name, the father's auto-parts work, the family's move to Dearborn.
- Television reference listings — the 1936 birth-year variant, carried as a conflict.