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Dick Sargent: Biography

Birth Name: Richard Cox
Birth Place: Carmel, CA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/19/1930, Aries
Date of Death: 07/08/1994
Profession: Actor; businessman

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Dick Sargent Fast Facts:

His mother was a silent film actor, and his father was a World War I veteran and Hollywood business manager (whose clients included Douglas Fairbanks).
While struggling to begin a career as an actor, he held a number of odd jobs, including digging ditches and doing a stint with an import-export company in Mexico.
The original choice to play Darrin Stephens on Bewitched, he ultimately took over the role in 1969 when Dick York was forced to leave the sitcom for health reasons.
To explain his unmarried status early in his career, he claimed to be a divorcé in studio biographies, but eventually went public as a gay man on National Coming Out Day in 1991.
In 1992, he shared Grand Marshal duties with friend and former Bewitched costar Elizabeth Montgomery for a gay-pride parade in Los Angeles.
Charitable pursuits included the Special Olympics and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1989, to which he succumbed on July 8, 1994.

Dick Sargent Relationships:
Ruth McNaughton Cox - Mother
Elmer Cox - Father
Albert Williams - Significant Other
Edie Cox - Sister
College:
Attended Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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