Departures of note

Marjoe Gortner was an American evangelist, actor and singer. Famous as a child from the mid-1940s as a traveling preacher who helped his parents finance their ministry by performing Pentecostal sermons, he left the evangelical world as a young man and later gained international notoriety as the subject of the 1972 Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe," which revealed the manipulation techniques of evangelists. Later he built a prolific career as an actor in Hollywood, participating in films such as "Earthquake" (1974), "The Food of the Gods" (1976) and "Starcrash" (1979), as well as television series such as "Falcon Crest."