Tom Ligon, Stage and Screen Actor and SAG-AFTRA Board Member, Dies at 85
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Erik Pedersen
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Tom Ligon, a veteran stage and screen actor who appeared in the 1969 film musical Paint Your Wagon and on Broadway, and served as a longtime member of the SAG-AFTRA New York Local board, has died at age 85. The actors union confirmed his death but did not provide a cause. Born in New Orleans in 1940, Ligon began his TV career in the mid-1960s and also starred in short-lived Broadway productions opposite Geraldine Page and Sandy Duncan.
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