One little-publicized fact about the author of Deliverance is that on the set of the movie, he kept begging to be the stand-in for Ned Beatty.

Name
James Lafayette Dickey
Birthday
February 2, 1923
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73
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Sunday, January 19th, 1997
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James Lafayette Dickey
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James Lafayette Dickey was never played in a game.

 
 

 

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The author of 1965's Smoking, Health And Personality, which theorized that cancer was caused more by an underlying personality disorder than by smoking, has died

(d) September 4th, 1997