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Larry Hagman
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Birth Date :
21/09/1931
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Biography - Larry Hagman
Actor Larry Hagman played the ripely nefarious oil baron J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television show Dallas. It was Hagman's second iconic TV role: he also played Major Tony Nelson, the goofy astronaut hiding a genie in a bottle in I Dream of Jeannie. Hagman came from a showbiz family: his mother, Mary Martin, starred on Broadway in Peter Pan and The Sound of Music. Early in his career Hagman appeared in the road company of South Pacific with his mother, then moved on to other theater parts and a regular role on the TV soap opera The Edge of Night. His big break came with I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70), in which he cavorted comically with a voluptuous imp played by Barbara Eden. As popular as that show was, Hagman topped it with a 13-year run as the scheming Texas patriarch of the Ewing clan on Dallas (1978-1991). Dallas began a craze for prime-time soap operas; the final episode of its 1979-80 season ended with Hagman's character being shot by an unknown assailant, and the public uproar made "Who shot J.R.?" a byword for TV cliffhangers. His films include Fail-Safe (1964, with Walter Matthau), Superman (1978, with Christopher Reeve), S.O.B. (1981, with William Holden) and Primary Colors (1998, with John Travolta). He published a memoir, Hello Darlin', in 2001.
Hagman appeared in every episode of Dallas... He received a liver transplant in 1995, after years of heavy drinking... The answer to "Who shot J.R.?" was eventually revealed to be J.R.'s sister-in-law Kristen, played by Mary Crosby... Hagman spent a year at Bard College in New York, the alternative school that also educated comedian Chevy Chase and Donald Fagen of the band Steely Dan... Hagman married the Swedish-born Maj Axelsson in 1954. They have two children: Kristina (b. 1958) and Preston (b. 1962)... Some sources list Hagman's birth name as "Hageman," but the biography on Hagman's official site says "Larry was born in Fort Worth, Texas on September 21st, the son of actress Mary Martin and attorney Ben Hagman."
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