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Actor, Will Lee, was born on Aug 6, 1908 in New York City, NY. Lee died at the age of 74 on Dec 7, 1982 in New York City, NY .

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He was never married nor had children and according to his obituary he was survived by his sister Sophia Lee-Lubov who lived in Florida.
After his death in late 1982, the producers of "Sesame Street" (1969) decided to kill off Mr. Hooper instead of hiring another actor to take over the part of the Street's amiable storekeeper. In a special "Sesame Street" episode that aired in November 1983 (nearly a year after Lee's death), Big Bird learned to cope with and grieve the death of his dear friend.
He was blacklisted in the early 1950s, primarily for his involvement with the Federal Theatre Project, the West Coast Actor's Lab and other theatrical groups alleged by various right-wing organizations to be Communist "fronts" during the McCarthy-era witch-hunts of that time. He worked through the 1950s and 1960s as an acting teacher, with James Earl Jones being one of his students.
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