| Birth: | Jul. 4, 1925 | | Death: | Sep. 28, 1966 | 
American motion picture and television actor of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. In 1959 Eric Fleming was cast as trail boss 'Gil Favor' on "Rawhide," one of the most popular TV Western series of the era. Fleming left Rawhide in 1966 to seek out film work. After playing in the Doris Day comedy "The Glass Bottom Boat," he headed to Peru to film the pilot episode of a TV adventure series, "High Jungle." While filming a canoeing scene in the Hullaga River, Fleming fell into the surging rapids and drowned; his mutilated body was not recovered until four days later. He died at the age of 41, just two days before he was to be married. (bio by: Anne Zimbelman)
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Children:
Evelyn Piel (1939 - 1939)*
*Calculated relationship
Cause of death: Drowned
Search Amazon for Eric Fleming | | | Burial:
University of Peru
Lima
Lima, Peru |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1201 |
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