RIP
Edward Meeks. American actor Edward
Meeks died on Saturday morning July 2 in Paris, Francxe at the age of 90. Born
in Jonesboro, Arkansas on September 27, 1934, Meeks had lived in France since
the 1950s. He had spent his entire career there, until becoming a figure in
cinema and television. After starting his career as a stuntman in “The Longest
Day” released in 1961, he played the captain of a hijacked plane in “The
Sicilian Clan” directed by Henri Verneuil (1969) and had appeared
in a total of twenty films. With his blonde hair and his American accent, he
was above all the star of the very popular soap opera ‘The Globe-Trotters’ (1966),
alongside Yves Rénier, a duo of journalist-adventurers who set off to travel
around the world. Meeeks appeared in the TV Euro-western “Tales of the North”
(1995) as Fitzgerald.
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