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Charles Fernley Fawcett (2 December 1915 – 3 February 2008) was an American adventurer, soldier, film actor, and a co-founder of the International Medical Corps. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal. [1] Varian Fry, his longtime associate, described him as "a moral adventurer".
Feb 10, 2008 · Charles Fernley Fawcett—rescuer, freedom fighter, actor, musician—died Sunday, Feb. 3 in London, at the age of 92. Fawcett, an American expatriate and moral adventurer most of his life,...
Charles Fernley Fawcett—rescuer, freedom fighter, actor, musician—died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, in London, at the age of 92. Fawcett, an American expatriate and moral adventurer most of his life, became best known in recent years for his rescue work alongside Varian Fry in Marseille in 1940, after France fell to the Nazis.
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Jun 26, 2023 · Stand for Israel | June 26, 2023. Last year, we told you the story of the first American who was named a Righteous Gentile, Varian Fry, and the many Jewish lives he saved during the Holocaust. And today, we’ll tell you about the American who helped Fry in his holy work—Charles Fernley Fawcett, a soldier, fighter pilot, actor, adventurer ...
Feb 3, 2008 · Actor, Filmmaker, Soldier. Co-founder of the International Medical Corps (IMC). The orphaned Fawcett, younger brother and two sisters, were raised by two aunts in Greenville, South Carolina. As a free-spirited young teenager, he began his life as an adventurer by working on steamships and traveling to the Far East....
Charles Fernley Fawcett (2 December 1915 – 3 February 2008) was an American adventurer, soldier, film actor, and a co-founder of the International Medical Corps. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal. Varian Fry, his longtime associate, described him as "a moral adventurer".
Charles Fernley Fawcett (1915–2008) was a wrestler, trumpet player, AFS ambulance driver, French Legionnaire, movie star, socialite, artist, and expatriate. Fawcett, born in Waleska, Georgia on December 2, 1915, grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He arrived in Paris in 1938 to study