
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 22, 1992                   TAG: 9203220090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

JOHN IRELAND, FILM ACTOR, DIES AT 78

John Ireland, who appeared in more than 200 movies and was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in the 1949 film "All the King's Men," died Saturday. He was 78.

Ireland died of leukemia, said Cottage Hospital nursing supervisor Denise McDonald.

He was a leading man in several movies in the 1940s, but by the 1950s Ireland was becoming familiar to audiences for supporting roles, usually as a cynical tough guy in a Western or adventure film.

He starred opposite Henry Fonda in "My Darling Clementine," Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Arc," Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier in "Spartacus" and Joan Collins in "The Good Die Young." - Associated Press

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