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| Robert Horton |
His death was confirmed by his niece, Joan Evans, who said that he was injured in a fall last November and had recently been placed in hospice care.
Meade Howard Horton Jr. was born to a well-off family in Los Angeles on July 29, 1924.
As a child, he overcame operations for a hernia and an enlarged kidney to play football at a military school in North Hollywood. He enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1943 but was medically discharged because of the enlarged kidney. In 1945, a chance encounter with a talent scout led to an uncredited part in the World War II film A Walk in the Sun.