Marjoe Gortner, whose childhood as an evangelical preacher was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary “Marjoe” and who went on to have a career as an actor, died Friday. He was 82. His wife Susan Magestro told Variety he died in Santa Fe, N.M.
Actor and America’s youngest ordained minister, Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, better known as Marjoe Gortner, whose life inspired the Oscar-winning 1972 documentary “Marjoe,” has died. He was 82.
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