Ric de Azevedo, who performed as a member of the voluminous King Family and served as a TV producer on Private Benjamin, California Dreams, Young Maverick and the Dukes of Hazzard spinoff Enos, has died. He was 75. De Azevedo died March 14 in Fruit Heights, Utah, after an undisclosed illness, his family announced. Survivors […]
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