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David Carradine's Long Island connection: Bellport
One of David Carradine's earliest show-biz gigs took place on Long Island. In the summer of 1963, he played Laertes opposite his father, John, in "Hamlet" at Bellport's Gateway Playhouse.
Ruth Allan, mother of current Gateway producer Paul Allan, recalls picking the actor up at the Patchogue train station.
"David was working and auditioning in the city at the time," she said. Carradine...
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