Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Townes, Harry Rhett May 23, 2001
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Huntsville Times
Harry Rhett Townes was an American television and movie actor.

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, Townes attended the University of Alabama and 
Columbia University, where he graduated. He developed his acting skills in the 
university's drama club.

Townes performed in several New York and Broadway stage productions, including 
summer stock. During World War II he left the stage to enlist in the Army Air 
Corps. Discharged in 1946, he returned to the stage before moving on to 
Hollywood.

Townes became a skilled character actor and was familiar face to TV viewers in 
the 1950s and '60s. His expanded range led him to fill a variety of roles, and 
he avoided the Hollywood nightmare of being typecast. Besides appearing in 29 
movies, Townes had more than 200 television parts.

Townes retired from acting in 1970. A religious person, he was ordained as an 
Episcopal priest in St. Paul's Cathedral on March 16, 1974 and served as 
minister of the Church of the Bells in Palm Springs, California. In 1989 Townes 
returned to his hometown of Huntsville, where he lived the remainder of his 
life.

Harry Townes died in Huntsville in 2001 at the age of 86. He was laid to rest 
in Maple Hill Cemetery.



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