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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 2, 1994                   TAG: 9412020084
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                 LENGTH: Short

ACTOR WHO DEFIED MCCARTHY PANEL DIES AT AGE 86

Lionel Stander, the gravelly voiced actor whose long career included Broadway, Frank Capra's classic ``Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' and television's ``Hart to Hart,'' has died at age 86.

He died Wednesday of lung cancer at his Brentwood home.

Though Stander often played bad guys, he also appeared in screwball comedies in the 1930s, including portraying Cornelius Cobb in 1936's ``Mr. Deeds,'' about a poet (Gary Cooper) who inherits a fortune. Capra won an Academy Award for directing.

Stander was blacklisted in the 1950s following his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He accused the committee of ``depriving artists and others of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without the due process of law.''

After being blacklisted, he eventually settled in Italy, appearing in dozens of films there, acting in such spaghetti Westerns as ``Once Upon a Time in the West.''

More recently, he played chauffeur Max on the TV crime series ``Hart to Hart'' from 1979 to 1984 with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers 


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