The pride of Tulsa also showed up in three Ernest movies, played The Big Bopper in ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ and did nine films ...

He posed as a renegade mobster dealing drugs and laundering cash to help topple Nicky Barnes, who as “Mr. Untouchable” ran a ...

A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic ...