Glenn Corbett cause of death was mentioned as lungs cancers by the hospital where he died. He was 59 years old.
In January 1993, Corbett died of lung cancer at the Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 59. He was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio.
Glenn Corbett was an American actor in movies and television for more than thirty years. Corbett came to national attention in the early 1960s when he replaced George Maharis in the cast of the popular CBS adventure drama Route 66.
He followed this with roles in high-profile films and television shows, including a guest role in the original Star Trek series, the daytime soap opera The Doctors, the prime-time soap Dallas, and movies such as Chisum with John Wayne, as one of Jimmy Stewart’s sons in Shenandoah, and the World War II epic Midway.
Overview of his life
An American lead actor and supporting actor, Corbett was born on August 17, 1933, in El Monte, California, the son of Sarah Bell (Holland) and John Warren Rothenburg, a garage mechanic.
After serving in the United States Navy as a Seabee, he met his wife Judy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and, with her encouragement, he began acting in campus theater plays.
He was seen by a talent scout and was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures.
Corbett’s film debut was in The Crimson Kimono (1959); it was followed by supporting roles in The Mountain Road (1960) and Man on a String (1960), All the Young Men (1960).
He took the lead role in William Castle’s suspense thriller, Homicidal (1961), and was cast as one of the sons of Jimmy Stewart’s character in the Civil War film Shenandoah (1965).
In other film work, he starred as Pat Garrett, opposite John Wayne in Chisum (1970). He again co-starred with Wayne in Big Jake (1971). Later, he appeared in Nashville Girl (1976) and Midway (1976).
In 1971, Corbett had a guest appearance with Mariette Hartley on Gunsmoke (episode: “Phoenix”).
In the 1970s, he had guest-starring roles on the television shows The Mod Squad, Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, and Barnaby Jones.
In 1976, Corbett joined the cast of the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors as Jason Aldrich. He stayed on The Doctors until 1981.
Throughout the 1980s, Corbett was a recurring guest star on the long-running television series Dallas as Paul Morgan from 1983–84, and then from 1986–88
