John Mahon, a veteran character actor who specialized in playing law enforcement and military types as seen in such films asL.A.
Confidential,One False MoveandThe People Under the Stairs, has died. He was 82. Mahon, who worked often with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright andExorcistactor Jason Miller, died May 3 of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his son, Joseph, announced.
When he was 12, Mahon contracted poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, and spent almost nine months fully paralyzed. He never recovered full use of his left arm but became a mentor to actors with disabilities and wrote about his life and career in a 2014 memoir,A Life of Make Believe: From Paralysis to Hollywood.
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