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Ted Cassidy

テッド・キャシディ　/　てっど・きゃしでぃ

American actor

July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979　・　Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania
actor
basketball player
television actor

My Take

Ted Cassidy is forever locked into my memory as a towering screen presence, and the basketball-player background in his profile makes perfect sense of that. A Pittsburgh native who studied at Stetson University, he used his unusual height to carve out a niche as a character actor and voice performer in 1960s and 1970s American television and film. I find it a little bittersweet that his life was cut short in 1979, because there's a sense he could have kept reinventing that imposing physicality. To me he's proof that a distinctive presence can become a whole career.

Overview

Ted Cassidy is an American actor.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Ted Cassidy
Name (Japanese): テッド・キャシディ
Reading: てっど・きゃしでぃ
Born: July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Monkey
Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / basketball player / television actor / film actor / voice actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Stetson University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

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