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Home Town Long Beach
Last Address Born: Mar 22, 1921 in Long Beach, CA Died: Jun 26, 2000 in Van Nuys, CA
Logan Carlisle Ramsey, Jr.
Lieutenant, United States Navy
(actor, stage and screen)
Logan C. Ramsey Jr. (March 21, 1921 - June 26, 2000) was an American character actor of television and film for nearly 50 years. Largely a TV actor, he appeared on, among others: The Edge of Night, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Mork and Mindy, Knight Rider and Night Court.
The actor was born in Long Beach, California. His father, Admiral Logan C. Ramsey, Sr., was a naval aviator who famously raised the alarm during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later became the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Block Island.
The junior Logan Ramsey also served as a naval aviator aboard the second USS Block Island (CVE-106) . During down time, Ensign Ramsey would participate in "smokers" (entertainment programs) aboard ship.
After the war he moved to New York City and studied acting under famous acting coach Lee Strasberg.
He married actress Anne Ramsey in 1954 and died from a heart attack Los Angeles, California in 2000.
Before inaugurating his movie career in 1961, Logan Ramsey and his wife Anne Ramsey established and maintained Philadelphia's Theatre of the Living Arts. While his stage work allowed him full rein in a wide variety of roles, Ramsey was straightjacketed by being typecast in films. When he wasn't playing a redneck sheriff, Ramsey was portraying a backwoods yellow-belly or thick-eared bigot. Ramsey was seen as John Witter in the first two Walking Tall films, and appeared regularly on the TV series The Edge of Night and On the Rocks. He played opposite his wife Ann in The Sporting Club(1971), Any Which Way You Can (1980) and Scrooged (1988). In 1977, Logan Ramsey was cast as J. Edgar Hoover (the resemblance bordered on the spooky) in the TV miniseries Blind Ambition.