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- Birth nameVirgil Charles Frye
- Character actor Virgil Charles Frye was born on August 21, 1930 in Estherville, Iowa. A former Golden Gloves boxing champion, Frye worked in the cornfields in Iowa and was active in the civil rights movement in Alabama before he first began acting in films and TV shows in the mid-1960's. Virgil often played either tough guys or police officers. The father of both Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye, Frye also ran his own successful acting school in the Hollywood Hills. Virgil suffered from Pick's Disease or Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his latter years and was the subject of the documentary Sonny Boy (2004) made by his daughter Soleil. Frye died at a nursing home in Orange County, California on May 7, 2012.- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders
- SpousesElizabeth Brady(January 21, 1966 - July 1971) (divorced, 1 child)Sondra Peluce (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Had a collection of valuable stained glass windows. Even when he was between acting jobs and was in desperate need of money, he continued to refuse to sell any of them.
- Frye was a well known boxer during his hitch in the Korean war.
- Frye had a successful acting school in Hollywood in the late 1980s to through the 1990s, which had many celebrity guests and taught a new generation of actors.
- Diagnosed with Pick's Disease or Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and was living in an Orange County, CA nursing home.
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