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Andrew Prine
Prine in 2010
Born
Andrew Lewis Prine

(1936-02-14)February 14, 1936
Jennings, Florida, U.S.
DiedOctober 31, 2022(2022-10-31) (aged 86)
Paris, France
OccupationActor
Years active1957–2015
SpouseHeather Lowe

Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor.

Early life and career

Prine was born in Jennings, Florida. After graduation from Miami Jackson High School in Miami, Prine attended the University of Miami and performed at the acclaimed Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. Prine made his acting debut three years later in an episode of United States Steel Hour. His next role was in the 1959 Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.[1] In 1962, Prine was cast in Academy Award-nominated film The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother James.

In 1962, Prine landed a lead role with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode series Wide Country, a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers. After the cancellation of Wide Country, Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and in such television series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Dr. Kildare, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Baretta, Combat!, Hawaii Five-O, Twelve O'Clock High, and The Bionic Woman. He played Dr. Richard Kimble's brother Ray in an important first-season episode of The Fugitive.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Prine appeared in supporting roles in a number of films. Prominent among these were three films he made for director Andrew V. McLaglen: The Devil's Brigade (1968), Bandolero! (1968), and Chisum (1970).

During the 1980s and 1990s, Prine continued to work in film and television. Appearances included W.E.B., Dallas, Weird Science, and as Steven in the science-fiction miniseries V and its sequel V: The Final Battle.

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.[citation needed]

A life member of the Actors Studio,[2] 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.[citation needed]

Prine received the Golden Boot Award for his body of work in Westerns (in 2001)[3] and two Dramalogue Critics Awards for Best Actor in a leading role.[4]

Murder investigation of Karyn Kupcinet

Prine, Irv Kupcinet and Karyn Kupcinet

Between December 1962 and her death on November 28, 1963, Prine dated actress Karyn Kupcinet — who was abusing diet pills along with other prescription drugs.[5] After Kupcinet had an illegal abortion in July 1963, the relationship cooled and Prine began dating other women. Kupcinet began spying on Prine and his new girlfriend.[6]

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department later determined Kupcinet had delivered threatening and profane messages, consisting of words and letters she had cut out of magazines, to Prine and herself. When the two of them discussed the messages, she claimed to know nothing about them and seemed puzzled.[7] After she died, sheriffs found her fingerprints on Scotch tape she had used to attach the messages to the door to Prine’s home and the door to hers.[8]

On November 30, 1963, Karyn Kupcinet, age 22, was found dead in her West Hollywood, California apartment by her friends Mark Goddard and his wife Marcia Rogers Goddard. (Later in Marcia’s life she became a prominent art consultant, collector and political activist based in Los Angeles.)[9] Coroner Harold Kade concluded that due to a broken hyoid bone in her throat, Kupcinet had been strangled. Her death was officially ruled a homicide.[10]

During the course of their investigation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, questioned Prine. He said he had talked with Kupcinet twice by phone on Wednesday, the day before her murder, trying to patch up a lover's quarrel between them. Edward Rubin and Robert Hathaway, the two men who had possibly been the last to see her alive, were friends of Prine. As was the case with Prine, they were questioned as possible suspects.[11][12][6]

In 1988, Kupcinet's father Irv Kupcinet published a memoir in which he revealed that he and his wife Essee believed that Andrew Prine had nothing to do with their daughter's murder.[13] Irv was suspicious of a person, still alive when he wrote his memoir, who had no connection to Prine.[13]

Death

Prine died of natural causes while vacationing in Paris on October 31, 2022, at the age of 86.[14]

Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^ Parkway Playhouse Archived June 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 279. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
  3. ^ "Williamsburg Film Festival Golden Boot Awards". Williamsburg Film Festival. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  4. ^ "Andrew-Pine and Salome Jens Set for ON GOLDEN-POND at Glendale Centre Theatre". Broadway World: Los Angeles. June 19, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  5. ^ Austin, John (1992). The Tales of Hollywood the Bizarre. SP Books. p. 150. ISBN 1-56171-142-X.
  6. ^ a b [Felsenthal, Carol (June 2004). "The Lost World of Kup". Chicago Magazine.]
  7. ^ Austin, John (1992). The Tales of Hollywood the Bizarre. SP Books. p. 150. ISBN 1-56171-142-X.
  8. ^ Austin, John (1992). The Tales of Hollywood the Bizarre. SP Books. p. 150. ISBN 1-56171-142-X.
  9. ^ Hollywood Reporter obituary of Marcia Ross —- in the 1960s she was Marcia Rogers Goddard
  10. ^ Felsenthal, Carol (June 2004). "The Lost World of Kup". Chicago Magazine. p. 7. Retrieved November 7, 2007.
  11. ^ Stephan Benzkofer (November 24, 2013). "Karyn Kupcinet 1963 death still unsolved". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  12. ^ Phil Potempa (November 29, 2013). "OFFBEAT: Chicago gossip columnist Kup never forgot beloved daughter". Northwest Indiana Times. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  13. ^ a b Kupcinet, Irving (1988). Kup: A Man, An Era, A City. Bonus Books. pp. 186–188. ISBN 0-933893-70-1.
  14. ^ Barnes, Mike. "Andrew Prine, Actor in Westerns Including 'Chisum' and 'Wide Country,' Dies at 86". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
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