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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 18, 1993                   TAG: 9304180120
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WINDSOR, ENGLAND                                LENGTH: Short

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`SAINT' CREATOR DIES AT 85 IN ENGLAND

Author Leslie Charteris, creator of the suave and daring detective Simon Templar - better known as "The Saint" - has died after a short illness, officials said Friday. He was 85.

At least eight of his scripts were made into Saint movies. A Saint television series in the 1960s, starring actor Roger Moore as the sophisticated bachelor sleuth with an endless supply of gorgeous female companions, secured Charteris' worldwide fame.

Born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin in Singapore on May 12, 1907, to a Chinese surgeon and his English wife, Charteris spoke Malay and Chinese dialects before learning English.

Although he became a U.S. citizen in 1946, renouncing his British citizenship, Charteris eventually returned to England, where he spent the last years of his life. - Los Angeles Times

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