Biographie

18 septembre 1914 · Huntsville, Alabama, États-Unis

23 mai 2001 · Huntsville, Alabama, États-Unis (non divulguée)

Harry Rhett Townes

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In the 1970s, Townes put himself through the seminary to become an Episcopal priest. Townes was ordained as an Episcopal priest in St. Paul's Cathedral on March 16, 1974. He served at St. Mary of the Angels Anglican Church in Hollywood until he retired from acting in 1989 and moved back to Huntsville, where he died, and is interred at Maple Hill Cemetery.

Harry Townes appeared in "The Four of Us Are Dying," a La quatrième dimension (1959) episode, and in "The First," a two-parter of the L'incroyable Hulk (1977) TV series. In both, he played a man who could change his form (in the Twilight Zone, he could change his face; in the Hulk, he could also turn into a Hulk). In both, he planned to run away with a woman, but before he could, was accosted in his hotel room by a man with a gun. In both, he escaped, and changed form, only to be shot to death by still another person with a gun, who only shot him because he was in his other form. In both, he reverted to his original appearance in death.

He attended the University of Alabama, but later transferred to, and graduated from, Columbia University.

Served in the Air Corps for four years during World War II.

While at the University of Alabama Townes was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Psi chapter.

I guess we're never entirely happy with what we do; we would like to do better. I feel I was lucky to get the work that I did. You always feel thankful because there are so many actors for so few jobs that it seems God is being good to you when you get a job. Of course, I would have loved to have done better, we all would. But we always think we can do it better in one more take. On the whole, I'm satisfied, though. As long as the audience was satisfied, then I'm satisfied.