TV actor Chad Everett Dies at 75

Chad Everett, an actor who played Dr. Joe Gannon sturdy and handsome young man in the television drama "Medical Center", has died. He was 75.

Everett died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after fighting lung cancer, his daughter Katherine Thorp told AP. Everett's wife of 45 years, actress Shelby Grant, died of an aneurysm in June 2011 to 74.

Although Everett has had a number of roles in television and films in a career that began in 1960, early, he left a lasting impression as Dr. Gannon on "Medical Center".

The drama series broadcast by CBS from 1969-1976 and followed the personal and professional lives in a university hospital in Los Angeles.

"Underestimation is apparently a very salable to TV", a reporter for the Washington Post wrote in an article published in 1975 by the famous man. "Chad Everett, a type of big city in China rarely lethargy histrionics while their rounds in" Medical Center "."

Everett came to Hollywood from the Midwest. It 's born Raymond Lee Cramton in South Bend, Indiana, June 11, 1937, and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, where his father was a racing driver and racing mechanic. He studied acting at Wayne State University in Detroit.

"I went to acting, so get bored easily," Everett told The Times in 1966, several years after he had changed his name for professional reasons. "I tried - when I was young - music, football, my father's business all his actions seem bores me to vent a lot of different feelings ..".

She landed jobs in episodic television programs from 1961 and then won a role in the TV western "The Dakota" in 1963.

He signed with MGM in 1964 and appeared in "Made in Paris" with Ann-Margret, and "The Singing Nun" with Debbie Reynolds in 1966.

Everett has worked steadily on television before and after "Medical Center", which appears as a regular "Hagen", "The Rousters", "McKenna," "Melrose Place," "Manhattan, AZ" and recently as "Last year in the" Chemistry ", a drama of the USA Network.

His film roles include parts in "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982), the 1998 remake of "Psycho" and "Mulholland Dr." (2001).