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Pop songwriter, singer and actor Paul Williams was born September 19, 1940, in Omaha, NE; following his father's 1953 death, he was sent to live with relatives in Long Beach, CA, there fostering his growing interests in music and drama by appearing in a series of high-school plays and talent shows. After graduation, the famously diminutive Williams briefly worked as an apprentice jockey ...more


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