One year ago: Paul Burke

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Actor Paul Burke was a familiar face on television and in the movies.

Burke, who died a year ago at 83, played Det. Adam Flint in the early 1960s TV drama ‘Naked City’ and later starred as a World War II Army Air Forces colonel in the action-adventure series ‘Twelve O’Clock High.’

‘Naked City,’ Times television critic Cecil Smith once wrote, ‘took the police show and gave it a dignity and compassion that at times approached high tragedy.’

Read more about Burke in his obituary in The Times.

-- Keith Thursby

Valley of the Dolls,’ in 1967.