Ken kercheval obituary
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Ken Kercheval Biography
Date of Birth:
Jul 15, 1935Birth Place:
Wolcottville, Indiana, USA
Jul 15, 1935Birth Place:
Wolcottville, Indiana, USA
Biography
With his slightly wavy, salt-and-pepper brown hair, his medium height and his ordinary-guy brand of handsomeness, Kercheval carved a solid niche for himself on US TV as various professional types, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes devious, usually ambitious. An incisive player, Kercheval has typically played his roles with an intriguing combination of smooth dispatch and flamboyant bravado; the demands of the small screen taught him the former, while his background in stage musical comedy helped him hone the latter. He is most widely known for his fine work as Cliff Barnes, the aspiring rival to J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and the scheming, perennial loser brother of virtuous Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) on the hit primetime soap, "Dallas" (CBS, 1978-91). Along with Hagman the only principal to stay with the series for its entire run, Kercheval artfully proved that, in the materialist 1980s, an underdog like Cliff, though somehow rather funny and often sympath
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and translator. She was born in Fontainbleau, France, and raised in Washington, D.C., and Cocoa, Florida. She studied writing at Florida State University and graduated with an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. After a year’s teaching at DePauw in Indiana, she moved to Madison to teach creative writing at the University of Wisconsin. She currently divides her time between Madison and Montevideo, Uruguay.
Kercheval has often set stories in places she has lived. Her novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie are mostly set in France, which is also central to her recent poetry collection America that island off the coast of France, winner of the Dorset Prize. From the age of ten, she lived in Cocoa, Florida, and the memoir Space is about her childhood spent close to Cape Kennedy where the Apollo moon missions were local stories. Space won an Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her novel Brazil follows an unlikely couple on an impulsive road trip from Florida to Wisconsin, refl
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Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and translator. She was born in Fontainbleau, France, and raised in Washington, D.C., and Cocoa, Florida. She studied writing at Florida State University and graduated with an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. After a year’s teaching at DePauw in Indiana, she moved to Madison to teach creative writing at the University of Wisconsin. She currently divides her time between Madison and Montevideo, Uruguay.
Kercheval has often set stories in places she has lived. Her novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie are mostly set in France, which is also central to her recent poetry collection America that island off the coast of France, winner of the Dorset Prize. From the age of ten, she lived in Cocoa, Florida, and the memoir Space is about her childhood spent close to Cape Kennedy where the Apollo moon missions were local stories. Space won an Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her novel Brazil follows an unlikely couple on an impulsive road trip from Florida to Wisconsin, refl
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Ken Kercheval
American actor (1935–2019)
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Kercheval in 1963 | |
| Born | Kenneth Marine Kercheval (1935-07-15)July 15, 1935 Wolcottville, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | April 21, 2019(2019-04-21) (aged 83) Clinton, Indiana, U.S. |
| Resting place | Pisgah Cemetery, Vermillion County, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Indiana University University of the Pacific Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–2019 |
| Spouses | Ava Fox (m. 1986; div. 1993)Cheryl Paris (m. 1994; div. 2004) |
| Children | 5 |
Kenneth Marine Kercheval (July 15, 1935 – April 21, 2019) was an American actor, best known for his role as Cliff Barnes on the television series Dallas and its 2012 revival.[1][2]
Early life
Kercheval was born on July 15, 1935, in Wolcottville, Indiana, to Marine "Doc" Kercheval (1899-1967), a local physician, and the former Christine Reiber (1903-1996), a regi
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