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Is Gene Lyons still alive?
Gene Lyons passed away on July 8, 1974 at age 53.
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Gene Lyons is best known for roles in Sylvia, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, Kiss Her Goodbye.
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Over a 21-year career (since 1953), Gene Lyons has appeared in 4 movies and 12 TV shows.
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The career of Gene Lyons began with The Trip to Bountiful (1953).
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Gene Lyons's most recent release is Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, which premiered on May 13, 1969.
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On television, Gene Lyons has appeared in Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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Gene Lyons
Gene Lyons
1921-02-09 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Gene Lyons (February 9, 1921 – July 8, 1974) was an American television actor from Pittsburgh, best known for his role as police commissioner Dennis Randall on the NBC detective series Ironside starring Raymond Burr.

A life member of The Actors Studio, Lyons was in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years. His other Broadway credits include Masquerade (1958), The Trip to Bountiful (1953), Harriet (1942), and This Rock (1942).

In 1953, Lyons played a police detective on the CBS drama series Pentagon U.S.A.. He appeared in 1954 as Steve Rockwell on the CBS daytime drama Woman with a Past. Before joining Raymond Burr as a regular on Ironside, he appeared on Perry Mason in 1965 as murderer Ralph Balfour in "The Case of the Wrathful Wraith." He also made guest appearances on nearly two dozen other series including The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Fugitive, Ben Casey, Star Trek ("A Taste of Armageddon"), The Twilight Zone ("King Nine Will Not Return"), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Untouchables. He also appeared in films including Kiss Her Goodbye and The Young Don't Cry.

Lyons died in Los Angeles, California on July 8, 1974 and is buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

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