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John Ritter

American actor
Also known as: Jonathon Southworth Ritter
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    …Audrey Hepburn, Colleen Camp, and John Ritter but was perhaps best remembered for Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband shortly after filming ended. Stratten had been having an affair with Bogdanovich, and he later wrote The Killing of the Unicorn (1984), a biography about her.

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    …Audrey Hepburn, Colleen Camp, and John Ritter but was perhaps best remembered for Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband shortly after filming ended. Stratten had been having an affair with Bogdanovich, and he later wrote The Killing of the Unicorn (1984), a biography about her.

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