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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 18, 2024 15:02:29 GMT
Whenever I watch anything and get curious about the cast I wind up reading up on them online. I was not prepared, while watching innocent fluff like A Swingin' Summer (1965), to learn that its leading man, James Stacy, had such a sordid and troubled life. Best known for playing the lead role on the TV western Lancer (1968-1970), he and his then girlfriend, Claire Cox, were riding his motorcycle in the Hollywood hills in September 1973 when they were hit by a drunk driver. Cox was killed and Stacy lost his left arm and leg. After a period of rehabilitation, Stacy returned to acting in roles that included his disabilities, earning two Emmy nominations. Stacy was married to actress Connie Stevens from 1963 to 1966. He later married actress Kim Darby, which lasted from 1968 to 1969. They had a daughter together. In 1995 Stacy plead no contest to molesting an eleven year old girl. He fled California for Hawaii where he attempted suicide by leaping from a cliff. He survived and was sentenced to serve six years in prison. In 2016 Stacy was given an antibiotic injection in a doctor's office and died from anaphylactic shock at age 79. Stacy was portrayed by actor Timothy Olyphant in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019).
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