Ken Howard’s Death – Cause and Date

The tv actor Ken Howard died at the age of 71. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Played the role of basketball coach Ken Reeves on TV’s The White Shadow and starred as Thomas Jefferson in the musical film 1776.

He married his third wife Linda Fetters in 1992.

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I was involved with sports and student government, the regular stuff. I liked movies and all, but I did love the singing and putting on musicals, and I was always comfortable with that. I liked it.

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Unifying the legacy SAG and AFTRA contracts was essential, and I am very pleased that we were able to achieve that.

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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.

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After ‘The White Shadow’ was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career – a very interesting one.

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Pension and health benefits are a cornerstone of union protection. When actors’ work is split between two unions, that protection is weakened or, in the worst cases, eliminated. That’s not acceptable, and it’s one of many reasons merging SAG and AFTRA makes sense.