Dick Sargent

Birthplace: Carmel, California
Birthday: April 19, 1930

Gangly actor with a nervous, anxious quality and a good sense of comedy, remembered for his work in TV comedies of the 1960s and early 70s, especially as the perennially frazzled spouse of nose-twitching wife-cum-witch Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) on the popular sitcom "Bewitched". Sargent began appearing in light feature fare in the late 1950s including the teen comedy, "Bernardine" (1957) and the Pat Boone musical, "Mardi Gras" (1958). He sometimes played in dramas like "Captain Newman M.D." (1963) b…more

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Actor

Fools, Females and Fun: What About That One?
Roger Morris
The Gossip Columnist
Alan Keyes
Bewitched
Darrin Stevens
Not Until Today
Father Francis Dacey; Jason s friend
Stand-Up Comics Take a Stand!

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Career Milestones

1993
Last TV-movie, "Acting on Impulse"
1991
Last films, "Frame Up" and "Twenty Dollar Star", both direct-to-video releases directed by Paul Leder
1991
Publicly announced he was gay on "National Coming Out Day", partly in response to California governor Pete Wilson's decision to veto a gay rights bill
1989
Learned that he had prostate cancer
1988
Returned again to feature films for "Body Count"