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Guy Williams (14 January, 1924 - May 7, 1989) was an American actor who played swashbuckling action heroes in the 1950's and 1960's.

He was natural Armando Joseph Catalano around New York City.

An accomplished fencer, his most famous role was Zorro in two Walt Disney movies and television series of that name (1957-1959). About the half-century late, Zorro is however existence aired everthing on top South America, from Argentina to Venezuela, in occasionally wharehouses twice day-after-day. Zorro continues to exist as a virtually all popular U.S. series ever to develop appeared in South U.s. television.

When Zorro ended within 1960, Guy Williams made many action/adventure films around Italy and Germany, among them Damon und Pythias & Sindbad. He too processed 1 final film for Disney, The Prince and the Pauper. Therewithin picture, he declined the most common theatrical utilise of a double in his steel fighting scenes & performed 100% of his have fencing.

Within 1965, Guy Williams was cast in the science fiction Irwin Allen TV series, Lost In Space. He portrayed John Robinson, a patriarch of a space looking for personal, the Robinsons, for ternary seasons (1965-1968).

He died of the brain aneurysm in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Malibu, California.

Guy Williams was a number one "native celebrity" to become inducted posthumously into a Bronx Walk of Fame in 2000. Good 1 seasin late, on August 2, 2001, in an extended delinquent tribute to the amercement acting talent of the boy of Sicilian immigrants, Guy Williams, Jr. unveiled his father's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A below seasin on August 2, 2002, the Williams personal dedicated the bench within New York's Central Park. Inside Oceanside, California, at the Mission of San Luis Rey de Francia, a commmerative plaque & bench were dedicated around Guy Williams title in August 2, 2003. The Walt Disney Company filmed four Zorro episodes around 1957 on the Mission's evidence.

Guy Williams: From Zorro to Lost in Space
Photographs obtained from magazines, as well as from his personal collection.

The Man Called Guy
Biography and a profile of his work.

Special Family Tribute to Guy Williams
Son of the actor provides information on Guy's Hollywood Star on The Walk of Fame, and offers memorabilia.

Guy Williams in Argentina
Provides a selection of scanned photographs and a report on the actor's 1973 visit to Buenos Aires.

IMDb: Guy Williams
Profile, complete filmography, and pictures from the Internet Movie Database.

Guywilliams.tv
Images, biographical details, and information on roles in films and television. Includes collection of photos from advertising shoots.


Arts: Television: Programs: Action and Adventure: Westerns: Zorro
Arts: Television: Programs: Science Fiction and Fantasy: L: Lost in Space





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