Robert Reed — American Actor born on October 19, 1932, died on May 12, 1992

Robert Reed was an American stage, film, and television actor, and television director... (wikipedia)

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.