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Bobby Diamond

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He had a huge success in the 50’s with the series “Fury”, and after that he appeared in “On the limits of reality” and in some other successful production. Bobby Diamond passed away at the age of 75 on May 15, 2019, as a result of cancer, at Los Robles Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. 

Born on August 23, 1943, in Los Angeles (California), the mother of Robert LeRoy Diamond –his real name– introduced him to various castings, until he was chosen to debut, as a young circus spectator, in The Greatest Show on Earth. world . He was 9 years old at the time. Later he appeared in titles such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Back from Hell , where he gave life to the protagonist (war veteran Audie Murphy playing himself) in his childhood.

But he became popular, especially in the United States, heading the cast of Fury , a series that caused a sensation between 1955 and 1960. He played Joy, an orphan who gets into a street fight. The judge leaves her under the guardianship of Jim, a rancher who offers her all his love. One of his workers tries to tame a black horse that dazzles the boy. It came to have 116 chapters that arrived in Spain five years late. At the end of the fiction, Bobby Diamond occasionally intervened in various series, such as In the limits of reality, where he played a military man. 

Married to Tara Parker, since the mid-70s he left acting in the background to dedicate himself to practicing as a lawyer. In 2016 he assisted the authors of the book “X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?”, Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher, on the problems faced by child actors who become too famous.

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