Who Played Darrin On Bewitched? – Looper

After starting his career on radio shows and working with directors Elia Kazan and Sydney Lumet in theater, Dick York landed his first television role in 1952’s “Mr. District Attorney.” However, his first credited film appearance was as Ted ‘Wreck’ Loomis in “My Sister Eileen.” 

York mostly appeared on television, but he took the part of Corporal Bohun in 1957’s “Operation Mad Ball.” While the film reunited York with Jack Lemmon, it was more notable for being comedian Ernie Kovacs’ first film. Two years later, during the filming of “They Came to Cordura,” an accident caused the right side muscles of his back to tear. His spine healed incorrectly, and from that point on, his back problems continued to get worse.

In 1960, he played Bertram T. Cates in “Inherit the Wind” with Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly. Two years later, he co-starred with Kelly in the series “Going My Way.” Twenty years after leaving “Bewitched,” York appeared in the series “Simon & Simon” and “Fantasy Island,” and the TV movie “High School, USA,” while also running the non-profit he started from home, Acting for Life. Despite his hardships, his optimistic nature never vanished. 

“I just want to be remembered laughing, that I had fun,” he said in one of his last interviews. “That the world was kind to me. That I never met anybody I hated or who hated me.”