Mark dacascos
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Kenneth (Ken) G. Wilson January 9, 1939 - August 6, 2021
MY BELOVED HUSBAND AND BEST FRIEND
The most beautiful and thoughtful man on the earth has decided it was time to be with his mom and dad. Kenneth G. Wilson was born on January 9, 1939, in Cheyenne, Wyoming and went to be with them on August 6, 2021 at 5:00 AM in Meridian, Idaho.
Ken contracted polio when he was 13; this happened because he and his cousin, John Kensinger, went swimming in a contaminated pond, they stayed up all night and then John shot him in the chest with a BB gun. Years later John felt he was at fault, but it was the combination of all the circumstances and Ken never felt John was responsible.
Ken attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie. After Ken graduated from college, John talked him into moving to San Mateo, California. If I recall correctly, he went to work for Marchant Calculators, and then on to Plessey Micro Science in Mt. View, CA. Ken loved hunting but after moving to California he never really had the opportunity to hunt.
Soon after moving to California, Ken married Shar
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Khigh Dhiegh
American actor (1910–1991)
Khigh Dhiegh | |
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Khigh Dhiegh in trailer for The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | |
| Born | Kenneth Dickerson (1910-08-25)August 25, 1910 Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 1991(1991-10-25) (aged 81) Mesa, Arizona, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1950–1990 |
| Spouse | May Dickerson (?-?) 2 children |
Khigh Alx Dhiegh (KYDEE or DAY; born Kenneth Dickerson; August 25, 1910 – October 25, 1991)[1] was an American television and motion picture actor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudanese ancestry, noted for portraying East Asian roles.[2] He is perhaps best remembered for portraying villains, in particular his recurring TV guest role as Chinese agent Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O (from the pilot in 1968, to the final episode in 1980), and brainwashing expert Dr. Yen Lo in 1962's The Manchurian Candidate.[a]
Life and death
He was born Kenneth Dickerson in Spring Lake, New Jersey.[3][4] Dhiegh stated his mother wa
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Actor Khigh Dhiegh; Villian Wo Fat on ‘Hawaii Five-O’ Television Series
MESA, Ariz. — Actor Khigh Dhiegh, best known as the villain Wo Fat on the television series “Hawaii Five-O,” died of kidney and heart failure at a hospital here. He was 75.
Dhiegh, who died Friday at Desert Samaritan Hospital, had lived in nearby Chandler.
A generation of television viewers knew him as an evil master criminal forever eluding Steve McGarrett, head of a law enforcement organization known as Five-O. McGarrett, played by Jack Lord, finally brought Wo Fat to justice at the end of the show’s 1968-80 run.
Dhiegh also wrote 11 books, crafted jewelry, taught philosophy for six years at UCLA and at one time owned a Taoist sanctuary in Tempe, Ariz.
He was born in Spring Lake, N.J., and lived most of his life in New York.
Dhiegh was working in his mother’s bookstore in New York when a customer asked if he wanted to be in a Broadway play. He became a character actor and was cast in the pilot of “Hawaii Five-O” in 1968.
“The pilot show had Wo Fat being killed,” Dhiegh said in the 1983 inter
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