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- During the filming of They Came to Cordura (1959), Dick was seriously injured during a railroad handcar scene. He and Gary Cooper were propelling a handcar down a railroad track with other men when he accidentally lifted the mechanism without his comrades' help and wrenched his back, tearing the muscles along the right side of his back.
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Dick York suffered a severe back injury during the filming that caused him great pain in his later years, so much so that he was forced to resign from his longtime role of Darrin Stephens on the 1960s television program Bewitched, the injury indeed almost ruining his life. In York's own words, "Gary Cooper and I were propelling a handcar ...
- York Badly Injured His Back While Shooting The Movie 'Condura'
- He Became Addicted to Prescription Painkillers
- York's Career Never Recovered
Born September 4, 1928, in Fort Wayne, Indiana to a salesman father and seamstress mother, it was a parochial school nun who first spotted his talent for acting and encouraged York to seek coaching. At 15 he had a regular role on the radio show That Brewster Boy. Within a decade he had moved to New York City, was working on radio soaps and had marr...
Work included numerous roles on television, including The Untouchables (1960), Dr. Kildare (1961), Route 66 (1963) and Rawhide (1961-1963), before York landed the role for which he would be forever associated with: Darrin Stephens in Bewitched. Form 1964 to 1969 York portrayed the mortal husband to Elizabeth Montgomery’s witch Samantha and her magi...
York continued medicating until 1971 when he decided to quit cold turkey. But his career had already waned in his absence from television, as had his economic situation, forcing him and his family to rely on welfare, unemployment checks and odd jobs to make ends meet over the following decade. Minor roles in Simon & Simon and Fantasy Islandin the e...
Feb 8, 1989 · A 1958 film, “They Came to Cordura” with Gary Cooper, proved, for York at least, to be his most memorable role.
Mar 8, 2023 · A few years earlier, York injured himself on the set of a movie. While filming a scene for "They Came to Cordura," York was lifting a railroad handcar with other cast members. But when the director shouted cut, everyone stopped lifting, except for York.
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Jan 16, 2021 · Before working on "Bewitched," York had suffered a serious back injury on the set of "They Came to Cordura." Constant pain due to the injury made standing for long periods of time difficult for him. Dick York posing against a yellow background in a publicity portrait issued for television series, "Bewitched," circa 1967. | Photo: Getty Images.
Apr 28, 2020 · A few years prior to production on the first season of Bewitched, Dick had suffered a debilitating and permanent back injury on the set of the film They Came to Cordura. The chronic pain from the injury made standing for long periods of time difficult and also caused the actor to become dependent on painkillers to get through the day.
While filming the movie They Came to Cordura (1959) with Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, he suffered a permanent, disabling back injury. In York's own words, "Gary Cooper and I were propelling a handcar carrying several 'wounded' men down [the] railroad track. I was on the bottom stroke of this sort of teeter-totter mechanism that made the ...
