McCarthy Kevin

American actor and noted family member. The brother of novelist Mary McCarthy, he is perhaps best known for his 1956 performance in "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." He also received an Oscar nomination for the film, "Death of a Salesman." McCarthys parents died in the 1918 influenza epidemic and he and his three siblings were sent to live with relatives in Minneapolis. Life there was miserable. Five years later, he and his younger siblings went to live with their maternal grandfather. He became interested in the theater while at university and made his stage debut in 1938. After WWII in which he served as a military police officer, he returned to acting expanding his repertoire from Broadway productions to movies and television. He married Augusta Dabney in 1941 and the couple had three children. The marriage ended in a 1961 divorce. In 1979 he married Kate Crane with whom he had two children. His ex-wife, Augusta, died in 2008. McCarthy continued to act into his 90s and died at age 96 on September 11, 2010 in Hyannis, MA. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less