Chad Everett
Chad Everett ( born June 11, 1936 in South Bend, Indiana; † July 24, 2012 in Los Angeles, California; Raymon Lee Cramton actually ) was an American actor. Besides his career in the movie Everett worked mainly in series for television, such as in the CBS medical series Medical Center.
Life
Chad Everett was born in South Bend, a medium-sized town in Indiana in 1936 as a son of Mr. and Mrs. Virdeen Ruth (nee Hopper) and Harry Clyde "Ted" Cramton. In neighboring northern state of Michigan Everett grew up in the city of Dearborn. After he has acting classes at the college, he studied at Wayne State University before he then left for Los Angeles to try it with a career in Hollywood, not least due to its attractive exterior.
Career
In 1961 he made his feature film debut in the Gordon Douglas film Claudelle and her lover, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel. Through his charismatic appearance he quickly found in the 1960 rolls of film that showed him as a sympathetic young lovers, daredevils and Western heroes. In the film, Paris is full of love by Boris Sagal he starred opposite Ann -Margret, whose title song "Made in Paris" - composed by Burt Bacharach - had some success at the box office. He mostly played second male lead in comedies or Western stars such as Glenn Ford, in the duel of the Gringos 1967 or Robert Taylor in Hot Colts in hard fists or in Michael Gordon's film comedy with David Niven in all that is prohibited.
In the 1970s, his career shifted almost entirely on film roles on television as his performance in the hit miniseries Victor Charlie calls Lima Sierra by director Douglas Heyes or in popular series such as his role in the doctor's series Medical Center for which he 1971 Golden Globe nomination received. By the end of his career, he only appeared sporadically in films.
He was married to actress Shelby Grant until her death in 2011. The couple had two children, Katherine Thorp and Shannon Everett.
Chad Everett died July 24, 2012 of complications from lung cancer.