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    Debonair, dark-haired, exceedingly handsome Roger LaVerne Smith was born in South Gate, California to Dallas and Leone Smith on December 18, 1932. At age 6, his parents enrolled him at a professional school for singing, elocution and dancing lessons. By age 12, the family moved to Nogales, Arizona, a small town on the Mexican border where he appeared in high school theater productions, was made president of the school's acting club and became a star linebacker for his high school football team.

    While studying at the University of Arizona in Tucson on a football scholarship, Roger entered and won several amateur talent prizes as a singer and guitarist which led to a TV appearance with Ted Mack and his Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour (1948) program. Stationed in Hawaii at a Naval Reserve, Roger had a chance meeting with film legend James Cagney. Cagney, impressed with the boy's clean-cut good looks and appeal, encouraged Roger to give Hollywood a try. Roger did

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    Roger Smith progressed from Oxford University into the BBC as a writer at the beginning of the 1960s. He was one of a group of politically progressive ung men - "the ung blood Left Wingers", as television dramatist Ian Kennedy Martin called them - who introduced new voices and methods into the staid world of BBC drama.

    Smith became writer and script editor to producer James MacTaggart's experimental drama anthologies Studio 4 (1962) and Teletale (1963-64). The ambitious 'Catherine' (Teletale, tx. 24/1/1964), his first original script, exemplified the series' non-naturalistic credentials and was director Ken Loach's first production. He worked as story editor on First Night (1963-64), a series of new, original television plays, and on the non-naturalistic serial Diary of a Young Man (1964), igen with MacTaggart and Loach. For a time, he also acted: his credits included 'Tickets to Trieste' (Storyboard, BBC, tx. 1/9/1961), alongside a pre-fame Mich

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    Roger Smith (actor)

    American actor, film producer and screenwriter (1932-2017)

    Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American television and film actor, producer, and screenwriter. He starred in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip and in the comedy series Mister Roberts. Smith went on to manage the career of Ann-Margret, his wife of 50 years.

    Early life

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    Smith was born in South Gate, California, the son of Leone Irene (née Adams) and Dallas LaVerne Smith.[citation needed] When he was six, his parents enrolled him into a stage school, where he took singing, dancing, and elocution lessons. He grew up in Nogales, Arizona, where his family moved when he was 12.[1] He was educated at the University of Arizona at Tucson[2] on a football scholarship. He won several amateur talent prizes as a singer and guitarist.[1]

    Career

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    Smith served with the Naval Reserve and was stationed in