Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-British actor, born Larushka Mischa Skikne in Joniskis, Lithuania, who emigrated with his family to Johannesburg, South Africa as a child and later briefly attended London's RADA before beginning his stage and film career. He became a leading man of British and Hollywood cinema with Room at the Top (1959, BAFTA, Academy Award nomination), Butterfield 8 (1960), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He was bisexual and was married three times -- to actress Margaret Leighton (1957-1961), to Joan Perry Cohn (1968), the widow of studio mogul Harry Cohn, and to Paulene Stone (1972) -- while, according to his friend and fellow actor John Fraser's memoir, maintaining a long-term romantic relationship with his manager and producer James Woolf, who cast him in several of his early films. Harvey died of stomach cancer at 45 in London in November 1973, having never publicly addressed his sexuality.