Rex Reason, the tall, handsome actor with a lush voice who portrayed the heroic scientist Dr. Cal Meacham in the 1955 science-fiction cult classic This Island Earth, has died. He was 86. Reason died Thursday of bladder cancer at his home in Walnut, California, his wife of 47 years, Shirley, told The Hollywood Reporter. The actor also starred as Adam MacLean, publisher and chief reporter for the Wyoming newspaper The Yellowstone Sentinel, in the 1957-59 syndicated TV show Western Man Without a Gun, and he played another newspaperman in the 1960-61 series The Roaring 20’s. Contrary to what
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- 11/23/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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