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Born Andrew Lewis Prine
American film, stage, and television actor
Born on February 14, 1936 in Jennings, Florida , United States
Died on October 31, 2022 in Paris , France
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Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
... Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Early life
Prine was born in 1936, in Jennings, Florida. He was raised in a farming community.
Career
Early beginnings
In the mid-1950s, Prine was a "starving" stage actor in New York City. Prine made his acting debut in an episode of United States Steel Hour, in 1957. He was the lead in the Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. Adapted by playwright Ketti Frings, the play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 28, 1957. In 1958, Prine was brought in as a replacement for Anthony Perkins. It ran for a total of 564 performances, and closed on April 4, 1959. The production was a critical success, it won 1958 Best American Play and was nominated for several Tony Awards.
Prine left Broadway in pursuit of acting, after he realised the greater pay difference. From 1959, he was cast in a series of small roles for television. In 1962, Prine was cast in the Academy Award-nominated film The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother James. He had fond memories of his co-star Anne Bancroft, who was dating Mel Brooks at the time.
Westerns and television: 1960s
In 1962, Prine landed the lead role of Andy Guthrie with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode NBC series Wide Country, a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers which aired between 1962 and 1963. He learnt from rodeo performer and technical advisor Slim Pickens. Prine later credited Holliman for the quality of the series, in terms of rewriting the script and his dedication. After the cancellation of Wide Country, Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s, in such Western television series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, and Wagon Train.
His other television appearances included the non-Western series Dr. Kildare, Cannon, Combat!, and Twelve O'Clock High. He notably played Dr. Richard Kimble's brother Ray in an important first-season episode of The Fugitive.
In the late 1960s, Prine appeared in three prominent films made by director Andrew V. McLaglen: The Devil's Brigade (1968) with William Holden, Bandolero! (1968) with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch, and Chisum (1970) with John Wayne. Prine was known for his youthful, egotistical attitude. Nobody else intimidated him, with the exception of Wayne. Out of all the films in his career, Prine confessed that the Westerns were his personal favorite.
Horror and television: 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, Prine steadily worked in film and television. These series included Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, The Bionic Woman, W.E.B., Dallas, and as Steven in the science-fiction miniseries V and its sequel V: The Final Battle.
Prine appeared in a succession of cult horror films Simon, King of the Witches (1971), Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973), Terror Circus (1973), The Centerfold Girls (1974), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), Grizzly (1976), The Evil (1978), and Amityville II: The Possession (1982).
Later years: 1990s–2010s
During the 1990s, Prine continued to work in film and television. His appearances included Weird Science and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Prine worked with director Quentin Tarantino on an Emmy-winning episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and in Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, Boston Legal, and Six Feet Under, in addition to feature films with Johnny Knoxville. The Encore Western Channel has featured him on Conversations with Andrew Prine, interviewing Hollywood actors such as Eli Wallach, Harry Carey, Jr., and Patrick Wayne, and film makers such as Mark Rydell with behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Stage
A life member of the Actors Studio, Prine's stage work includes Long Day's Journey into Night with Charlton Heston and Deborah Kerr, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, directed by Henry Fonda, and A Distant Bell on Broadway.
Legacy
Prine received the Golden Boot Award for his body of work in Westerns (in 2001) and two Dramalogue Critics Awards for Best Actor in a leading role.
Personal life
Prine briefly married his first wife, actress Sharon Farrell in 1963. The couple divorced the same year, reportedly after only living together for one month and ten days.
He married his second wife, actress Brenda Scott, in 1965. The couple had multiple remarriages and divorces, before they remarried a third time, which lasted from 1973 to 1978.
In 1986, he married his third wife, actress-producer Heather Lowe. The couple were together 36 years until his death in 2022.
Karyn Kupcinet and Prine met on the set of Wide Country in December 1962 and began dating in 1963. The relationship was problematic; Kupcinet was abusing diet pills along with other prescription drugs.
Prine told Kupcinet that he was newly divorced, dating other girls, and not interested in an exclusive relationship. After Kupcinet said she underwent a supposed illegal abortion in July 1963, the relationship cooled further. Prine continued dating other women. In turn, Kupcinet began spying on Prine and his girlfriends. The police were called to Prine’s home one afternoon when he and his date heard a burglar in the attic. Kupcinet was found in the house and no charges were filed.
After Kupcinet's death, The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and FBI examined threatening letters that Prine had received; Kupcinet told Prine she had also been sent the exact same kind of threats. They took them to the Sheriff's Department who suggested they were probably pranks. The FBI later determined Kupcinet had delivered to Prine and herself the threatening and profane messages, consisting of words and letters she had cut out of magazines. Her finger prints were discovered on the tape during the FBI investigation.
On November 30, 1963, Kupcinet was found dead in her apartment at the age of 22. The coroner concluded that Kupcinet had been strangled because of a broken hyoid bone in her throat. Her death was ruled a homicide.
During the course of an investigation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Prine voluntarily worked with investigators when questioned. Prine said he had talked with Kupcinet twice by phone on Wednesday, the day before her murder, when he was trying to resolve a phone call from Kupcinet who told him that a baby had been left on her doorstep. He told her to call the police and later followed up with calls to see if she had contacted the authorities. Additionally during the investigation both Edward Rubin and Robert Hathaway, the two men who had been at her apartment the night of her death and possibly been the last to see her alive, were eventually named as suspects.
In 1988, Kupcinet's father Irv Kupcinet published a memoir in which he revealed that he and his wife Essee believed that Prine had nothing to do with their daughter's murder. He was suspicious of a person, still alive when he wrote his memoir, who had no connection to Prine. Irv Kupcinet named David Lange, a neighbor of his daughter and brother to actress Hope Lange, who had twice confessed to friends he was guilty. When questioned, Lange suggested he was kidding. However, when a girlfriend who was with Lange in his upper apartment told him about the police activity at his friend Karen's apartment, his reaction was adamant and he told her to close the drapes and keep quiet. She thought his demeanor was strange because Lange often had been in Karyn's apartment. Later, Lange stopped talking to the police, hired attorneys, and moved to New York.
Death
Prine died of natural causes while on vacation in Paris, France, on October 31, 2022, at the age of 86.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
Andrew Prine at IMDb
... Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Early life
Prine was born in 1936, in Jennings, Florida. He was raised in a farming community.
Career
Early beginnings
In the mid-1950s, Prine was a "starving" stage actor in New York City. Prine made his acting debut in an episode of United States Steel Hour, in 1957. He was the lead in the Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. Adapted by playwright Ketti Frings, the play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 28, 1957. In 1958, Prine was brought in as a replacement for Anthony Perkins. It ran for a total of 564 performances, and closed on April 4, 1959. The production was a critical success, it won 1958 Best American Play and was nominated for several Tony Awards.
Prine left Broadway in pursuit of acting, after he realised the greater pay difference. From 1959, he was cast in a series of small roles for television. In 1962, Prine was cast in the Academy Award-nominated film The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother James. He had fond memories of his co-star Anne Bancroft, who was dating Mel Brooks at the time.
Westerns and television: 1960s
In 1962, Prine landed the lead role of Andy Guthrie with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode NBC series Wide Country, a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers which aired between 1962 and 1963. He learnt from rodeo performer and technical advisor Slim Pickens. Prine later credited Holliman for the quality of the series, in terms of rewriting the script and his dedication. After the cancellation of Wide Country, Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s, in such Western television series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, and Wagon Train.
His other television appearances included the non-Western series Dr. Kildare, Cannon, Combat!, and Twelve O'Clock High. He notably played Dr. Richard Kimble's brother Ray in an important first-season episode of The Fugitive.
In the late 1960s, Prine appeared in three prominent films made by director Andrew V. McLaglen: The Devil's Brigade (1968) with William Holden, Bandolero! (1968) with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch, and Chisum (1970) with John Wayne. Prine was known for his youthful, egotistical attitude. Nobody else intimidated him, with the exception of Wayne. Out of all the films in his career, Prine confessed that the Westerns were his personal favorite.
Horror and television: 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, Prine steadily worked in film and television. These series included Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, The Bionic Woman, W.E.B., Dallas, and as Steven in the science-fiction miniseries V and its sequel V: The Final Battle.
Prine appeared in a succession of cult horror films Simon, King of the Witches (1971), Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973), Terror Circus (1973), The Centerfold Girls (1974), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), Grizzly (1976), The Evil (1978), and Amityville II: The Possession (1982).
Later years: 1990s–2010s
During the 1990s, Prine continued to work in film and television. His appearances included Weird Science and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Prine worked with director Quentin Tarantino on an Emmy-winning episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and in Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, Boston Legal, and Six Feet Under, in addition to feature films with Johnny Knoxville. The Encore Western Channel has featured him on Conversations with Andrew Prine, interviewing Hollywood actors such as Eli Wallach, Harry Carey, Jr., and Patrick Wayne, and film makers such as Mark Rydell with behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Stage
A life member of the Actors Studio, Prine's stage work includes Long Day's Journey into Night with Charlton Heston and Deborah Kerr, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, directed by Henry Fonda, and A Distant Bell on Broadway.
Legacy
Prine received the Golden Boot Award for his body of work in Westerns (in 2001) and two Dramalogue Critics Awards for Best Actor in a leading role.
Personal life
Prine briefly married his first wife, actress Sharon Farrell in 1963. The couple divorced the same year, reportedly after only living together for one month and ten days.
He married his second wife, actress Brenda Scott, in 1965. The couple had multiple remarriages and divorces, before they remarried a third time, which lasted from 1973 to 1978.
In 1986, he married his third wife, actress-producer Heather Lowe. The couple were together 36 years until his death in 2022.
Karyn Kupcinet and Prine met on the set of Wide Country in December 1962 and began dating in 1963. The relationship was problematic; Kupcinet was abusing diet pills along with other prescription drugs.
Prine told Kupcinet that he was newly divorced, dating other girls, and not interested in an exclusive relationship. After Kupcinet said she underwent a supposed illegal abortion in July 1963, the relationship cooled further. Prine continued dating other women. In turn, Kupcinet began spying on Prine and his girlfriends. The police were called to Prine’s home one afternoon when he and his date heard a burglar in the attic. Kupcinet was found in the house and no charges were filed.
After Kupcinet's death, The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and FBI examined threatening letters that Prine had received; Kupcinet told Prine she had also been sent the exact same kind of threats. They took them to the Sheriff's Department who suggested they were probably pranks. The FBI later determined Kupcinet had delivered to Prine and herself the threatening and profane messages, consisting of words and letters she had cut out of magazines. Her finger prints were discovered on the tape during the FBI investigation.
On November 30, 1963, Kupcinet was found dead in her apartment at the age of 22. The coroner concluded that Kupcinet had been strangled because of a broken hyoid bone in her throat. Her death was ruled a homicide.
During the course of an investigation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Prine voluntarily worked with investigators when questioned. Prine said he had talked with Kupcinet twice by phone on Wednesday, the day before her murder, when he was trying to resolve a phone call from Kupcinet who told him that a baby had been left on her doorstep. He told her to call the police and later followed up with calls to see if she had contacted the authorities. Additionally during the investigation both Edward Rubin and Robert Hathaway, the two men who had been at her apartment the night of her death and possibly been the last to see her alive, were eventually named as suspects.
In 1988, Kupcinet's father Irv Kupcinet published a memoir in which he revealed that he and his wife Essee believed that Prine had nothing to do with their daughter's murder. He was suspicious of a person, still alive when he wrote his memoir, who had no connection to Prine. Irv Kupcinet named David Lange, a neighbor of his daughter and brother to actress Hope Lange, who had twice confessed to friends he was guilty. When questioned, Lange suggested he was kidding. However, when a girlfriend who was with Lange in his upper apartment told him about the police activity at his friend Karen's apartment, his reaction was adamant and he told her to close the drapes and keep quiet. She thought his demeanor was strange because Lange often had been in Karyn's apartment. Later, Lange stopped talking to the police, hired attorneys, and moved to New York.
Death
Prine died of natural causes while on vacation in Paris, France, on October 31, 2022, at the age of 86.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
Andrew Prine at IMDb
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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