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Tall (6'2"), burly, and reliable character actor Gene Roth was born Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth on January 8, 1903 in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the youngest of three sons born to German father Eugene Stutenroth and Swedish mother Anna Christina Olsen. Roth and his two brothers were raised by their mother after their father abandoned them when Gene was only two years old. Gene graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1920. He began his acting career doing uncredited bit roles in silent pictures in the early 1920's. Moreover, Roth worked as a movie theater manager and built and installed pipe organs before his acting career took off in the 1940's following his arrival in Hollywood, California in 1943.
Often cast as threatening heavies (he's perhaps best known for his portrayals of bad guys in many 1940's comedy shorts he did with The Three Stooges), scruffy working class types, and rough-around-the-edges law officers (he played initially skeptical small town sheriffs in the 1950's creature feature classics Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) and The Spider (1958)), Gene worked profusely in both films and television alike in a career that spanned a little over two decades. After retiring from acting in the early 1970's, Roth worked part time as a liquor counterman at a drug store and was an active participant in the nostalgia convention circuit. He was married four times and was the father of three children. Gene's life came to a tragic untimely end at age 73 when he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976.- Producer
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Lawreen K. Yakkel was born on 2 October 1961 in Redfield, South Dakota, USA. She is a producer and production manager, known for Willy's Wonderland (2021), Dead Man Rising (2016) and Deep Cover (1997). She has been married to Kenny Yakkel since 13 July 1996. They have two children.- Bill Badger was born on 14 March 1936 in Redfield, South Dakota, USA. He was married to Sallie M. Romberger. He died on 11 March 2015 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Harry Martin was born on 16 January 1890 in Redfield, South Dakota, USA. He is known for Night Nurse (1931), Life Begins (1932) and Alias the Doctor (1932). He was married to Louella Parsons. He died on 24 June 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.