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Scent of a Woman actor Richard Venture dies

Scent Of A Woman actor Richard Venture has died, aged 94.
Venture, a character actor who had roles in other acclaimed films including All the President’s Men and Missing, passed away last month (Dec17), his daughter Rebecca has told The Hollywood Reporter.
Paying tribute to her father, Rebecca said, “He wasn’t a household name but his volume of work and his adaptability always stand out.”
Venture played William ‘W.R.’ Slade, the brother of Al Pacino’s retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.
The late star’s other notable roles included playing Peter Sellers’ valet in Hal Ashby’s Being There and as a police officer in Steve McQueen’s last movie, The Hunter.
Other film credits include parts in the 1987 Mario Puzo adaptation The Sicilian, Heartbreak Ridge, Courage Under Fire and Red Corner.
Venture also landed a number of TV roles, most notably on Seinfeld as the father of one of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends in the 1992 episode The Letter.
His final screen credit came in the 2001 show Series 7: The Contenders, after which he retired to Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The actor was married four times, to actresses Grayce Grant, Emmy Award winner Olivia Cole, Lorraine O’Donnell and his widow, Katherine Venture.

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