The Magnificent Seven Leave It To Beaver

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Happy birthday today (Sunday) to an Olympic champion who competed in two events during one Olympic Games in Europe.

This champion did not win the Olympic gold medal in the hurdles.

Our birthday athlete was born 129 years ago, about two months after Dwight David Eisenhower, and died at the age of 74, the day after the 1965 Compton Invitational.

You may already know that this athlete shares the same initials as two actors. One of those two actors was famous for a television show and the other appeared in a well-known film.

I imagine you can figure this one out fairly quickly. Good luck on this third Sunday in December.

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well, the inititals part is easy enough!

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Maybe I set the bar too high.

[Vault-emort]

Random guess - Jim Thorpe.

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there's no JT in the movie or TV show

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Jim Thorpe and our birthday athlete did win gold medals in the same European city. In fact, the two of them competed against each other in the same event at that city.

[bambam1729]

Jim Thorpe and our birthday athlete did win gold medals in the same European city. In fact, the two of them competed against each other in the same event at that city.

That means its either Alma Richards or Albert Gutterson, as he competed in the high jump and long jump in addition to the multis. But I don't see how that correlates with the TV show (must be Leave it to Beaver). Tony Dow, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers. Doesn't fit.

[LopenUupunut]

That means its either Alma Richards or Albert Gutterson, as he competed in the high jump and long jump in addition to the multis. But I don't see how that correlates with the TV show (must be Leave it to Beaver). Tony Dow, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers. Doesn't fit.

Harry Babcock at least fits those initials, not sure about the other clues.

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Harry Babcock it is. Nice job, LopenUupunut. Babcock, of course won the pole vault in Stockholm (1912) and two days later entered the decathlon. He retired after less than five events completed and did not finish the Olympic decathlon won by Jim Thorpe. Babcock was only 21 in Stockholm and lived another 53 years.

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so, without looking, who played the Magnificent Seven? (hint: one of them has the initials HB :-)

[Pego]

Horst Buchholtz.

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The Blob, The King and I, House of Wax, Charade, The Towering Inferno, and Von Ryan's Express.

The seven actors of "The Magnificent Seven" all made other motion pictures during their careers. You already know Horst Buchholtz. The six films listed above are pictures the other six actors appeared in during their careers.

[Pego]

The Blob, The King and I, House of Wax, Charade, The Towering Inferno, and Von Ryan's Express.

The seven actors of "The Magnificent Seven" all made other motion pictures during their careers. You already know Horst Buchholtz. The six films listed above are pictures the other six actors appeared in during their careers.

Besides Buchholtz, I can name only 5 others. Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn and Vaughn. No idea who the actor portraying Harry is.

[KDFINE]

Besides Buchholtz, I can name only 5 others. Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn and Vaughn. No idea who the actor portraying Harry is.

Brad Dexter

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That's it; The Magnificent Seven.