About Dick York
Richard Allen York was an American actor. He was the first actor to play Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He played teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960). The crew built York a slanted wall on which he could lean between scenes; during the first two seasons, this allowed York to manage his back injury with little difficulty. I used to make a tape recording of rain so I could listen to the rain lying in bed at night to drown out those damned bagpipes." In the early 1980s York tried to revive his career.
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