Andrew Prine

Andrew Prine
Born	Andrew Lewis Prine February 14, 1936 (1936-02-14) (age 73) Jennings, Hamilton County, Florida, USA
Spouse(s)	Sharon Farrell (1962 - 1962) (divorced) Brenda Scott (1965 - 1966) Brenda Scott (1966 - ?) Heather Lowe (1986 – present)

Andrew Lewis Prine (born February 14, 1936) is an American film, stage, and television actor.

Biography

Early life and career

Prine was born in Jennings in Hamilton County in northern Florida. After graduation from Andrew Jackson High School in Miami, Prine made his acting debut three years later in an episode of CBS U.S. Steel Hour. His next role was in the 1959 Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.^[1] In 1962, Prine was cast in Academy Award-nominated film,The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother, James.

In 1962, Prine landed a lead role with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode NBC series, The Wide Country, a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers.

After Wide Country, Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in movies with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, William Holden, and Dean Martin and on television series such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Dr. Kildare, Baretta, Hawaii Five-0, and The Bionic Woman.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Prine maintained working in films and as a television series regular. In the 1983–1984 season, he played A.W. Holly in the NBC series Boone, Room for Two, Dallas, W.E.B., Weird Science and as Steven in the Mini-Series V.

Most recently, Mr. Prine has worked with director Quentin Tarantino on the Emmy winning episode of "CSI" and in Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, Boston Legal and Six Feet Under in addition to feature films with Johnny Knoxville.

The Encore Western Channel has recently featured Mr. Prine on Conversations with Andrew Prine interviewing Hollywood actors like Eli Wallach, Harry Carey, Jr., Patrick Wayne, and film makers such as Mark Rydell with behind-the- scenes anecdotes.

Andrew Prine's stage work includes Long Day's Journey Into Night with Charlton Heston and Deborah Kerr, The Caine Mutiny, directed by Henry Fonda and A Distant Bell on Broadway. He has received the Golden Boot Award for his body of work in Westerns and two Best Actor Dramalogue awards.

Personal life

In 1962, Prine married actress Sharon Farrell, but the marriage ended a few months later. In 1965, Prine married actress Brenda Scott (born 1943). The marriage ended after one month, but the couple remarried in 1966. That union also resulted in divorce. While divorced, Prine and Scott co-starred as brother-and-sister with Barry Sullivan, Kathryn Hays, Kelly Corcoran, and Glenn Corbett in the NBC western series The Road West (1966-1967), stories of a pioneer family in Kansas. Hays played Prine's stepmother in the series though she is only three years his senior.

Prine is currently married to actress Heather Lowe, whom he wed in 1986.

Filmography

• Kiss Her Goodbye (1959)
• Texas Across the River (1966)
• The Devil's Brigade (1968)
• Bandolero! (1968)
• Lost Flight (1969)
• This Savage Land (1969)
• Generation aka A Time for Caring, A Time for Giving (1969)
• Along Came a Spider (1970)
• Chisum (1970)
• Night Slaves (1970)
• Simon, King of the Witches (1971)
• Another Part of the Forest (1972)
• Squares aka Honky Tonk Cowboy, Riding Tall (1972)
• One Little Indian (1973)
• Crypt of the Living Dead aka La tumba de la isla maldita, Vampire Women (1973)
• Wonder Woman (1974)
• Centerfold Girls (1974)
• Nightmare Circus (1974)
• Rooster Cogburn (Uncredited, 1975)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
• The Deputies aka The Law of the Land (1976)
• Grizzly (1976)
• The Winds of Autumn (1976)
• The Evil (1978)
• Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
• Eliminators (1986)
• Chill Factor (1990)
• Life on the Edge (1992)
• Deadly Exposure (1992)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Without Evidence (1995)
• The Dark Dancer (1995)
• Serial Killer (1995)
• The Shadow Men (1998)
• Possums (1998)
• The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes aka X-Ray Boy, X-treme Teens (1999)
• Critical Mass (2000)
• Witchouse 2: Blood Coven (2000)
• Sweet Home Alabama (Uncredited, 2002)
• Gods and Generals (Uncredited, 2003)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Glass Trap (2005)
• Hell to Pay (2005)
• Daltry Calhoun (2005)

Television

References

External links

• Andrew Prine at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website

• Andrew Prine at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)