Ron Harper, actor on TV's Land of the Lost and Planet of the Apes, dies at 91

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Ronald Robert Harper was born Jan. 12, 1933, in Turtle Creek, Penn. After high school, he studied at Princeton University on a scholarship and was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies at Harvard Law School, but he chose to pursue acting instead.in 1955. From 1959 to 1960, Harper, who had studied with Lee Strasberg, served as Paul Newman's understudy in Tennessee Williams', which also starred the likes of Norman Fell, Robert Lansing, Gregory Walcott, and Gena Rowlands.

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