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James Gammon | Movie, TV actor, 70

James Gammon, 70, the gravel-voiced actor who played the manager of the Cleveland Indians in the 1980s comedy Major League and had a host of other movie and TV roles, died of cancer Friday in Costa Mesa, Calif. The craggy-faced actor also played the father on the Don Johnson TV show Nash Bridges .

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James Gammon, 70, the gravel-voiced actor who played the manager of the Cleveland Indians in the 1980s comedy

Major League

and had a host of other movie and TV roles, died of cancer Friday in Costa Mesa, Calif. The craggy-faced actor also played the father on the Don Johnson TV show

Nash Bridges

.

Besides his TV and movie appearances, Mr. Gammon was a noted stage actor who cofounded the MET Theatre in Los Angeles. He starred in several Sam Shepherd plays, receiving a Tony nomination for his work on a 1996 Broadway production of Buried Child. - AP

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