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04.08.2021 - 01:45 / justjared.com
Alvin Ing has sadly died.
The Asian-American actor and Broadway star passed away at the age of 89 following complications due to breakthrough coronavirus, his representation confirmed Tuesday (August 3).
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The actor, who starred in Broadway’s Flower Drum Song and Pacific Overtures, as well as in many TV roles, died on July 31 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif.
He was fully vaccinated, and diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July, and then later
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Ethan Shanfeld Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American Broadway actor who appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. on July 31.
Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American actor who appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song and Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and whose guest roles on numerous television series stretched from the 1970s until very recently, died July 31. He was 89.
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