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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
John Compton
Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA John Tolley. You may remember him as the hapless Ted Forrester, from whom the evil daughter Veda in "Mildred Pierce" extorted $10,000 by feigning pregnancy (this was hot stuff in 1945). Starred in the 1959 TV series "The D.A.'s Man."
