James Patterson was an American Tony Award winning actor for his role in the 1968 Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...

 play, The Birthday Party (play)

The Birthday Party (play)

The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays...

. His best known film role was in Lilith (film)

Lilith (film)

Lilith is a film written and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman...

 (1964), and he had numerous guest appearances on television

Television

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 through the early 1970s. Patterson died of cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

 at age 40.

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Patterson played "Actor" opposite Hal Miller playing "Purge" on "purges Place" Director Martin Hoade
NBC "THE CATHOLIC HOUR" 1970