Do you
remember the late actor Fred Covington (1928-1993)? He was a familiar face on
the screen and TV. I think the most
popular role he was in was the slave market auctioneer in the mini-series Alex
Haley's ROOTS.. He lived with his family
in Marietta on Ebenezer Drive. In my
brief position as a Postal Window Clerk I waited on him a couple of times. He was also a teacher of a home/mail correspondence
acting course. We saw him often mailing
tapes and scripts.
Below is
about the most I found on him in one paragraph, but no good pictures.
Fred Covington, 65, who played a series of generally Southern
characters in motion pictures and television and was seen most recently on TV
as the police captain in the 1992 miniseries "Grass Roots." His roles
ranged from an auctioneer in the classic series "Roots" to a prisoner
in "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia." His other parts
included "Coward of the County," "Norma Rae," "The
Prize Fighter" and "They Went That-a-Way." He also appeared in
the TV series "In the Heat of the Night." In Marietta, Ga., on Wednesday
of cancer.
His wife Marilyn was in the
Blackwell Homemakers' Club. Anna is in
the same club.
Marilyn Covington died earlier this week. She has been suffering with dementia for
several years.
No comments:
Post a Comment