OBITUARY

Prolific actor Kevin McCarthy, best known for ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers,’ dies at 96

 

  

His career spanned more than 70 years and included a Golden Globe for 1951’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ film.

 

By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times

September 13, 2010

 

Kevin McCarthy, the veteran stage and screen actor best known for his starring role as the panicked doctor who tried to warn the world about the alien “pod people” who were taking over in the 1956 science-fiction suspense classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died Saturday. He was 96.

 

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Tags: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Kevin McCarthy

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