- Excerpt from MARCIA IN MOVIETOWN
Silver Screen, April 1972
MEET ROGER DAVIS:
Hollywood, much saddened by the needless, tragic death of young
Pete Duel, went back to business as usual. First order
of business--—replacing Pete on his weekly TV series. When
Roger Davis took over same folks said his was a very unenviable
role. Nonetheless, Roger picked up where Pete left off playing
the character of Hannibal Hayes in ABC-TV's "Alias Smith
and Jones." For your info, Roger hails from Louisville,
Kentucky, was educated at New York's Columbia U., where he majored
in English and Drama. After CU, Roger entered Harvard Law School
but lasted there all of one week, leaving to accept a teaching
fellowship at UCLA where he also got his Master's Degree. A few
years ago, he was busy teaching English at UCLA when he was offered
a part in a TV series, "The Gallant Men." He grabbed
it and hasn't stopped working since. He's tall, blond, blue-eyed
and--sorry ladies--married to actress-model Jaclyn Ellen Smith.
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