Actor John Agar; Had Roles In Classic 1940s Westerns

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 10, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

John Agar, 81, who got his start in acting after marrying film star Shirley Temple and appeared in a series of classic John Ford action movies in the late 1940s before his career and marriage rapidly deteriorated, died April 7 at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. He had emphysema.

His first roles were his best, in Ford's acclaimed Westerns "Fort Apache" (1948) and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) and the war drama "The Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949).

Insecure in his acting ability -- with just cause, critics would say -- Mr. Agar was often a tall, handsome and static male hero, a secondary male lead ...

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