George Maharis, the handsome New York actor who became an icon to American youth on the 1960s TV series “Route 66,” has died at 94.
George Maharis, a stage-trained actor with rough-hewn good looks who became an icon to American youth in the 1960s as he cruised the country in a Corvette convertible in the hit television series “Route 66,” has died.
, was Tod Stiles, a young man raised in wealth who upon his father’s death was left with nothing but a shiny new Corvette.Each week brought a new adventure in a new city, and audiences tuned in in droves.was the rare series at the time that was filmed on location, moving to new towns and cities for each new episode. Guest stars included Robert Redford, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Alan Alda in some of their earliest roles.
He got a name check that introduced him to subsequent generations in director Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” when fictional actor Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, says he was considered for the Steve McQueen role in “The Great Escape” along with three Georges: “Peppard, Maharis and Chakiris.”
He hoped to be a singer but damaged his vocal cords, so he switched to acting. After training under Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Actors Studio, he began appearing in off-Broadway plays.
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