Dick Sargent

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Dick Sargent

Dick Sargent (19 April 1930 – 8 July 1994) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of "the second Darrin Stephens" on the television

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series Bewitched
Bewitched

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. The actor took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.

Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

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, Sargent had appeared in films since his debut in 1956. When Dick York

Dick York

Richard Allen York was an United States actor in radio, Broadway theatre, and television....
was forced to leave the Bewitched
Bewitched

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series owing to health problems in 1969, Sargent stepped into the role.

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Dick Sargent (19 April 1930 – 8 July 1994) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of "the second Darrin Stephens" on the television

Television

Biography

Born Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Dick York

Universal Studios

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and unable to accept it. Sargent played Darrin until the show ended in 1972.

Sargent continued to work in film and made numerous guest appearances on various TV shows, including one episode of The Waltons
The Waltons

The Waltons is an United States television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara....
(with the second John-Boy, Robert Wightman), and two early episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard as Sheriff Grady Byrd. He played himself in a 1983 "Columbo" episode. In the mid-eighties, he played the role of Richard Preston, the widowed father, in the syndicated sitcom Down to Earth
Down to Earth (TV series)

Down to Earth was an United States fantasy situation comedy series that ran on TBS from 1984 in television to 1987 in television. It was produced by Procter & Gamble and was the superstation's first original series....
. In the 1980s, he joined actress Sally Struthers

Sally Struthers

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as an advocate of the "Christian Children's Fund", which brought relief to third world children.

Personal life

Later in life, Sargent declared publicly that he was gay

Gay

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and supported gay rights

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issues. He had long hidden his sexual orientation, appearing with lesbian

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actress Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg

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on the 1970s game show Tattletales
Tattletales

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as a couple. The game show featured celebrity married couples, and Sargent and Flagg claimed they were dating. In reality, Sargent lived with life partner Albert Williams until his death. In June 1992, Sargent was a Grand Marshal of the Los Angeles Gay Pride

Gay pride

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parade along with former co-star Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an United States film and television program actor whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered for her roles as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched, as Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and as Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden#Film....
.

Sargent died in 1994 from prostate cancer

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in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. He was cremated.

Dick Sargent

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