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365:. Lee was born and raised Jewish. Gross died when Falk was just a boy, and after a time, his mother Eleanor married Albert Falk Epstein, who became the father figure for Lee Falk and his brother, Leslie. Falk changed his surname after leaving college. He took the middle name of his stepfather, but "Lee" had been his nickname since childhood, so he took that name also. His brother, Leslie, also took the name "Falk". 25: 434:
of India, and hence based his first Phantom comic on the Singh Brotherhood. Falk originally considered the idea of calling his character "The Gray Ghost", but finally decided that he preferred "The Phantom". Falk revealed in an interview that
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stone busts inspired the notion of pupils of the eyes of The Phantom not showing whenever he wore his mask. The old Greek busts had no eye pupils, which Falk felt gave them an inhuman, interesting look.
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Falk married three times: to Louise Kanaseriff, Constance Moorehead Lilienthal, and Elizabeth Moxley. Elizabeth sometimes helped him with scripts in his later years and finished his last
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Lee Falk has also been a candidate for a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame many times, and was so honored in a ceremony on what would have been his 104th birthday, April 28, 2015.
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comic strips himself. When asked why the magician looked so much like himself, he replied, "Well, of course he did. I was alone in a room with a mirror when I drew him!".
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stories after he died. Falk had three children, Valerie (his daughter with Kanaseriff), and Diane and Conley (his daughter and son with Lilienthal).
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Falk had had a fascination for stage magicians ever since he was a boy. Falk, according to his own recollections, sketched the first few
291:; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the 1968: 707: 108: 1953: 1933: 1898: 922: 1913: 131: 1958: 46: 1963: 973: 754: 353:, where he spent his boyhood and his youth. His mother was Eleanor Alina (a name he later, in some form, used in both his 502: 89: 1867: 1862: 1857: 1852: 1847: 915: 61: 1293: 895: 806: 639: 544: 35: 864: 42: 68: 1640: 1314: 1232: 1110: 761: 519: 1499: 1481: 1455: 1252: 783: 736: 1046: 1041: 742: 612: 75: 585: 1548: 1064: 953: 700: 617: 590: 296: 213: 1893: 1888: 1702: 1404: 778: 57: 1824: 1727: 1054: 968: 801: 350: 1635: 1265: 1653: 1563: 1348: 1242: 1712: 1663: 1304: 1270: 1186: 1166: 1156: 844: 693: 484: 271: 247: 232: 1568: 1514: 1399: 1176: 988: 983: 549: 426: 421: 326: 1509: 1358: 1811: 1658: 1617: 1578: 1522: 1435: 1378: 1171: 1131: 993: 958: 850: 461: 448: 440: 318: 82: 1882: 1776: 1740: 1717: 1707: 1687: 1573: 1543: 1527: 1465: 1460: 1445: 1353: 1330: 1309: 1280: 1237: 1227: 1201: 1181: 1115: 493: 322: 224: 174: 1842: 1829: 1816: 1806: 1771: 1766: 1645: 1630: 1625: 1596: 1588: 1583: 1553: 1440: 1383: 1275: 1151: 1141: 1074: 1069: 938: 749: 509: 338: 228: 571: 400:
was inspired by Falk's fascination for myths and legends, such as the ones about
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story lines), and his father was Benjamin Gross. Both of his parents were
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Falk's next large passion after cartooning was the theater and stage
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In May 1994, his birthplace St. Louis honored him with Lee Falk Day.
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Falk won numerous awards for comics and theatre, including:
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