The Governor is dead! The
governor of Hawaii Five-O, that is Richard Denning, who played on the well-known
television series for 12 years, lost his life to emphysema.
The handsome, clean-cut character actor of the '30s, '40s, and '50s
starred in Cecil B. DeMille's classic Westerns, Union Pacific (1939) with Joel
McCrea, and North West Mounted Police (1940) with Gary Cooper. He also had a
stint in the original Geronimo the same year. While Denning appeared in a handful
of Westerns including The Gun That Won the West (1955), Buckskin Lady
(1956), and TV's Cheyenne (as a guest star), his acting career was diverse.
The sentimental might remember him for his role in the romantic drama, An
Affair to Remember (1957). Maybe the light-hearted will recall his performance in the
Billy Wilder comedy, Some Like it Hot (1959).
Although Denning's career peaked in the late '50s, it's hard to forget those
low-budget classics he starred in, mainly Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), The
Black Scorpion (1957), and the two Roger Corman quickies, Day the World Ended
(1955) and The Oklahoma Woman (1956). |
