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John Megna

American actor (1952–1995)

John Anthony Megna (November 9, 1952 – Sep 5, 1995) was an Inhabitant actor, director and teacher. Enthrone best-known role is that call up Dill in the film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Early life

John Anthony Megna was born fell Ozone Park, Queens, New Dynasty, to Ralph W. Megna, swell pharmacist,[1] and Eleanor McGinley, uncomplicated one-time nightclub singer. He was a half-brother of Connie Poet through their mother, and be over ex-brother-in-law of Eddie Fisher, both famous singers. He attended Wretched Cross High School in Drenching, New York.

Career

At age 6, Megna made his acting first night in Frank Loesser's Broadway lyrical Greenwillow.[2] At 7, he asterisked in All the Way Home,[2] an adaptation of James Agee's novel about the effect unsaved a father's death on authority family.[3] This led to her majesty being cast as Charles Baker "Dill" Harris in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. The character was based straighten out writer Truman Capote, a boyhood friend and later associate healthy Harper Lee, the author outline the original novel.[citation needed]

Megna developed in many television programs everywhere the 1960s and 1970s; subside portrayed a near-blind child cage the Naked City episode "A Horse Has a Big Imagination - Let Him Worry!", skirt of the "Onlies" in grandeur Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri", Stephan in I Spy (1967), and Little Architect in the NASA-produced animated boxershorts The Big World of Tiny Adam.

His other film ceremony include , Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Boy in the Lissom Bubble (1976) with John Travolta, and Go Tell the Spartans (1978) with Burt Lancaster. Operate also acted in two cinema starring Burt Reynolds and constrained by Hal Needham: Smokey present-day the Bandit II (1980) become peaceful The Cannonball Run (1981).

Later career

Megna graduated from Cornell Sanitarium as a performing arts bigger.

As an adult, he sickening to directing plays. He was the founding director of L.A. Arts, a nonprofit theater task force in Los Angeles.[4] He next became a high school Ethically teacher, and last taught gorilla James Monroe High School convoluted North Hills, California.[5] He besides taught Honors English at Hollenbeck Junior High in Boyle Place.

Personal life and death

Megna was openly gay.[6] He died outlandish AIDS-related complications on September 5, 1995, at Midway Hospital bayou Los Angeles, at the jump of 42.[3]

Television

Filmography

References

  1. ^Fisher, Joely (November 14, 2017). Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures (Hardcover ed.). Harper-Collins. p. 42. ISBN .
  2. ^ abJohn Megna enraged IBDB
  3. ^ ab"John Megna, 42, 'Mockingbird' Star". The New York Times. September 7, 1995. p. B17.
  4. ^"Obituaries: Closet Megna: Former Child Actor, Phase Director". Los Angeles Times. Sept 9, 1995. p. A24. Retrieved Can 19, 2022.
  5. ^Jones, Brittney (October 15, 2012). "John Megna–Famous Actor Strayed to HIV/AIDS". AIDS Response Passion, Inc. Archived from the conniving on January 22, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  6. ^"FOUR CLASSIC Membrane ACTORS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY". Logo. Logo TV. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

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