- Bill Raisch
Carl William Raisch, (
April 5 ,1905 , North Bergen,New Jersey , USA –July 31 ,1984 Santa Monica,California USA), was an Americandancer /actor .A dancer who worked for
Ziegfeld Follies in the 1930s, he lost his right arm while serving in theUnited States Navy in 1945 duringWorld War II . He played bit parts in several movies; his most memorable film role was in a famous fight scene withKirk Douglas in "Lonely are the Brave " (1962). Raisch's most celebrated role, however, was in the TV series "The Fugitive" (1963-1967), where he played Fred Johnson, the one-armed man who was the real killer of the wife of Dr. Richard Kimble, played byDavid Janssen .Raisch worked for many years as an acting teacher, and also had a long professional relationship with
Burt Lancaster , working as Lancaster'sstand-in in several movies.After the series' conclusion, Raisch was scarcely seen on TV or the media again, and died of
lung cancer in 1984 in Santa Monica, California.External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707199/ Bill Raisch] at the Internet Movie Database
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