James Farentino, Evita Peron star, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His spokesman, Bob Palmer,said that the cause was heart failure after a long illness. The actor who appeared in dozens of movies and televisions shows died in age 73.
Actor Farentino is the best remembered for his roles in the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty and for starred alongside Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen in the 1980 science fiction film ‘The Final Countdown’. They stood on the deck of a medan aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Nimitz, as it passed through a time warp to Pearl Harbor, hours before the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1991. They had to decide whether to use the full power of their super carrier to destroy the Japanese fleet or allow history to take its cours. Farentino played in this Don Taylor’s time travel sci-fier after a decade-long break.
Farentino who born in Brooklyn made his broadway debut in the 1961 production of Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana, starring Bette Davis, Margaret Leighton and Patrick O’Neal. And then 1962 is a year he started appeared on television, by guesting on various television, series such as The defenders, Route 66 and 77 Sunset Strip. He was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Saint Peter in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, an earned a ‘Most Promising New Comer’ Golden Globe in 1967 for his tour in The Pad and How to Use It. Despite that, Farentino’s film career was a minor one, but then he played one of the leads in a more important comedy, David Iowell Rich’s Rosie!
Rest in Peace, Mr. Farentino, and be strong Stella,fourth wife and sons David and Saverio.
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