DICK SARGENT BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Dick Sargent was born on April 19th, 1930 in Carmel, California with the birth name Richard Stanford Cox, born to parents, Ruth McNaughton, a actress and Colonel Elmer Cox who later became a Hollywood business manager.  Sargent went to school at San Rafael Military Academy in Menlo Park, California and then enrolled at Stanford to study drama.
 
After college he began pursuing a career as an actor, first with his debut role in the film, "Prisoner of War" (1954) followed by some of his early television roles such as, "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Wagon Train" (1957), "I Dream of Jeanie" (1965), "Adam-12" (1968), "One Happy Family" (1961) and "Broadside" (1964).
 
He became most well known for portraying the character, Darrin Stephens on the television series, "Bewitched" (1964).  Along with his television credits, he did add some film credits to his resume such as, "Operation Petticoat" (1959), "That Touch of Mink" (1962), "Fluffy" (1965), "Billie" (1965), "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966), "Live a Little, Love a Little" (1968) and "The Private Navy Sgt. O'Farrell" (1968). 
 
Other small guest appearances included roles on, "Three's Company", "Taxi", "Fantasy Island", "The Dukes of Hazard", "Columbo", "The Waltons" and "Knotts Landing".  Sargent also did some voice over work for commercials and occasionally appeared in a number of stage productions.  
 
In 1991 he came out to the public about his sexuality and proclaimed he was a homosexual.  He outright supported gay rights and he admitted to having a lifelong partner, Albert Williams who he had lived with for the past twenty years, until he passed away on July 8th, 1994 in Los Angeles, California after suffering from prostate cancer at the age of sixty four. His remains were cremated.

Filmography

1993 Acting on Impulse 
1992 Harry and the Hendersons
1992 The Commish 
1991 P.S.I. Luv U
1991 Frame Up
1991 Twenty Dollar Star
1990 Murder by Numbers
1989 Rock-A-Die Baby
1989 Teen Witch 
1988 Square One TV 
1988 Mathnet 
1988 L.A. Law
1987 Murder, She Wrote 
1987 Body Count
1984-1986 Down to Earth 
1986 The Eleventh Commandment 
1984 Diff'rent Strokes 
1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1984 Benson
1984 Alice
1983 ABC Afterschool Specials 
1983 The Yellow Rose 
1983 Matt Houston
1983 I'm Going to Be Famous
1982 Family Ties
1982 Taxi 
1977-1982 Fantasy Island 
1981 Trapper John, M.D
1981 Aloha Paradise
1980 The Waltons 
1980 Vega$
1980 The Gossip Columnist 
1980 The Dukes of Hazzard 
1976-1979 Charlie's Angels 
1979 The Clonus Horror 
1979 Not Until Today
1979 The Power Within
1979 Hardcore 
1978 Switch
1977 The Love Boat 
1977 Baretta 
1977 Three's Company
1976-1977 Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1977 The Tony Randall Show
1976 The Six Million Dollar Man 
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man 
1976 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1976 Ellery Queen 
1976 McMillan & Wife
1974 Fools, Females and Fun
1974 Melvin Purvis G-MAN
1972-1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 
1973 Here's Lucy
1973 The Streets of San Francisco 
1970-1973 Love, American Style
1969-1972 Bewitched
1972 Young Dr. Kildare 
1969 The Outcasts 
1969 Adam-12
1969 I Dream of Jeannie
1968 Live a Little, Love a Little 
1968 The Young Runaways 
1968 The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968 The Rat Patrol 
1967 Accidental Family 
1966-1967 Daniel Boone 
1966 The Tammy Grimes Show
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 
1966 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 
1965 Billie
1965 Fluffy 
1964-1965 Broadside 
1963-1964 Wagon Train
1963 Captain Newman, M.D.
1963 For Love or Money
1963 Hazel
1963 Ripcord 
1962 Alcoa Premiere 
1962 The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 Kraft Mystery Theater
1962 That Touch of Mink
1962 Gunsmoke 
1962 Follow the Sun 
1961 Dr. Kildare 
1961 One Happy Family
1961 Death Valley Days 
1961 The Great Impostor 
1960 The Millionaire 
1960 The Alaskans 
1960 Wichita Town 
1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1959 Operation Petticoat
1959 The Loretta Young Show
1959 Black Saddle
1958 Mardi Gras 
1958 Playhouse 90
1957 Bernardine 
1957 West Point 
1957 Code 3
1957 Navy Log 
1957 The Christophers
1956 Love Me Tender 
1956 The Great Locomotive Chase 
1956 Medic
1955 The Beast with a Million Eyes
1954 Prisoner of War