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Seamon Glass (26 September 1925 – 12 July 2016) was an American actor and author. He acted in film and television from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. He appeared in the films This Is Not a Test (1962), Deliverance (1972), Bootleggers (1974), and Winterhawk. He had also appeared in Star Trek, in the episode Mudd's Women.
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Background
He was born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1925. He died in Los Angeles on 12 July 2016. Glass had a brief professional boxing career in 1960 in Los Angeles, compiling a record of 1-2. [1]
1960s
He was the lead actor in the 1962 film, This Is Not A Test, a film about a trooper who sets up a roadblock to catch a criminal then hears on the radio that there is going to be a nuclear attack.
1970s
Glass was memorable as the menacing 'First Griner' in John Boorman's 1972 film Deliverance. He played staff member Tim Donahue in the 1978 film, The Other Side of Hell. A story about an mental inmate played by Alan Arkin who regains his sanity and wants to leave the hospital.