Dick York
Dick York
Richard Allen "Dick" Yorkwas an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best known motion picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth4 September 1928
CityFort Wayne, IN
CountryUnited States of America
music air games
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.
life taught-us musical
I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.
looked people quite somebody trying woke
I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.
anyone cannot cast cooper direct entire finding footing gary horseback horses possibly
Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.
denying hole large side
I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.
time sleep giving
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
pain work sleep
I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
new-york cowboy bus-stops
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
gestalt want able
I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.
heart people mind
Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds,
coming insisted meant sponsor york
There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.
pain plunge seeing
I was seeing everything through pain.
blow careers magnificent
After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?
firefighter theatre radio
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.