Richard Denning

Richard Denning
Denning as Michael Shayne
Born
Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr.

(1914-03-27)March 27, 1914
DiedOctober 11, 1998(1998-10-11) (aged 84)
Resting placeMakawao Veterans' Cemetery
EducationWoodbury Business College (MBA)
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1980
Spouses
(m. 1942; died 1985)
Patricia Leffingwell
(m. 1986)
Children1

Richard Denning (born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr.; March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998)[1] was an American actor who starred in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957). Denning also appeared in the film An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and on radio with Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband[2]: 244  (1948–1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy. He's more well-known as Governor Paul Jameson in late 1960s-early 1980s police procedural TV series Hawaii Five-O.

  1. ^ Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films
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