6/3/2023 0 Comments Richard loopman![]() It can be going on in your body without you knowing it. He reflected to the press, “It’s a strange disease. Long and the doctors kept news of what was really going on from her for as long as possible - “camouflaging” the symptoms as a different illness - but she eventually had to be told. Suzan married actor Richard Long and walked down the aisle, as she had vowed she would, on an artificial limb.” (Everett Collection)Īlthough doctors had believed that the leg amputation had rid Suzan of cancer, the disease came back with a fury, infecting her lungs. Nonetheless, they did get married on April 11, 1954, though a year later the New York Daily News detailed, “When Suzan Ball lost her right leg to cancer early last year, her courage touched the hearts of all who learned of her tragic fate. In 1953, the couple had decided to get married, but her doctors discovered cancerous tumors in her legs. Instead, there came word that he had gotten involved with the second cousin of Lucille Ball, actress Suzan Ball. In 1952 the newspapers reported that Long had become engaged to a woman named Mary Briggs, but there was never another mention. His Heartbreaking First Marriage (Everett Collection) When the girls discovered this, they were horrified.” Murton gave them his card with the suggestion that Long phone him at the studio. They enthused about senior drama student Richard Long. When Murton casually inquired what was new on the school’s drama schedule, the girls told him Louisiana Susie was in rehearsal. One rainy afternoon two young ladies, classmates of Long’s at Hollywood High, missed the school bus home and were rescued from a sudden cloudburst by a passing motorist who just happened to be Jack Murton, casting director at International Studios. As reported by The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in October 1965, “Then came one of those fortunate coincidences which so frequently influence the film fates. His Acting Career Was Accidental (Everett Collection)īorn December 17, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois, Long hadn’t planned on becoming an actor, only taking a senior drama class at Hollywood High School to fulfill a necessary credit for an English department requirement. Of them, his most popular was the TV Western, The Big Valley, which ran from the mid to late 1960s. ![]() Upon returning home, he found that things had changed and he had to turn to television, where he would consistently find work as a frequent guest star and in leading roles in no less than five shows. You can certainly find that with martial arts expert Bruce Lee, who died in 1973 at age 32 Bill Bixby, star of My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie’s Fatherand The Incredible Hulk, whose life ended at age 59 in 1993 and Richard Long of The Big Valley (one of the great classic TV Westerns) and Nanny and the Professor, who suffered a fatal heart attack in 1974 at age 59.Įarly on, Long had enjoyed a fruitful film acting career, which was derailed when he was drafted into the Korean War. But at the same time, there are actors who are cut down at a young age who somehow manages to remain a part of the public consciousness. Betti, and J.-N.Fame is a strange thing in that you can spend a lifetime achieving it, yet following a certain number of years after you’re gone, the audience tends to forget. Phan, and K.Xu, “On Multi-Input Multi-Output Repetitive Control Design Methods,” Journal of The Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, Special Issue in Honor of Han Min Hsia, 32(6), 477-492 (2011) Longman, “Iterative Learning Control: A Method that can Improve Product Quality and Productivity in Manufacturing,” Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Special Issue on Manufacturing and Engineering Systems (Keynote Address), 35(1), 3-15 (Jan 2012) Longman, “On the Theory and Design of Linear Repetitive Control Systems,” European Journal of Control, 16(5), 447-496 (2010) Seel, Editor, 7 Volumes, 4300 pages, Springer Publications (2012) Longman, “Learning from Theory, Simulations, and Experiments: A Case Study from Iterative Learning Control,” Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, N. Longman, “Identification of Discrete Time Bilinear Systems Through Equivalent Linear Models,” Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics (Accepted) Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship ». ![]()
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