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Richard Allen "Dick" York (September 4, 1928 – February 20, 1992) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom ''Bewitched''. His best known motion picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the 1960 film ''Inherit the Wind''. ==Early life== York was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Betty, a seamstress, and Bernard York, a salesman. He grew up in Chicago, where a Catholic nun first recognized his vocal promise. He began his career at the age of 15 as the star of the CBS radio program ''That Brewster Boy''. He also appeared in hundreds of other radio shows and instructional films before heading to New York City, where he acted on Broadway in ''Tea and Sympathy'' and ''Bus Stop''. He performed with stars including Paul Muni and Joanne Woodward in live television broadcasts and with Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon and Glenn Ford in movies, including ''My Sister Eileen'' and ''Cowboy''. It was while filming the 1959 movie ''They Came to Cordura'' with Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth that York would receive a permanently disabling back injury. In York's own words: "Gary Cooper and I were propelling a handcar carrying several 'wounded' men down () railroad track. I was on the bottom stroke of this sort of teeter-totter mechanism that made the handcar run. I was just lifting the handle up as the director yelled 'cut!' and one of the "wounded" cast members reached up and grabbed the handle. I was suddenly, jarringly, lifting his entire weight off the flatbed—one hundred and eighty pounds or so. The muscles along the right side of my back tore. They just snapped and let loose. And that was the start of it all: the pain, the painkillers, the addiction, the lost career." In 1960, he played the role of Bertram Cates (modelled on John Thomas Scopes, of "Monkey Trial" fame) in the film version of ''Inherit the Wind''. York went on to star with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll in the 1962 ABC television comedy/drama ''Going My Way''. York was cast in the series, which lasted one season, as Tom Colwell, who operates a secular youth center. York appeared in dozens of episodes of now-classic television series, including ''Justice'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''The Untouchables'', ''Rawhide'', ''The Americans'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Father Knows Best'', and CBS's ''The Twilight Zone'' and ''Route 66''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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