Key Highlights
- He was 94.
- The Academy Award winner died on Sunday, Jan.
- 4 in Salem, Oregon, where he lived with his wife Lizabeth, according to an online obituary and the local Statesman Journal newspaper.
- Born May 4, 1931, Rogers grew up in Southern California and briefly attended UC Santa Barbara, before joining the Navy and flying in the Korean War.
- Rogers got his start in Hollywood, working in the sound department for There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), starring Marilyn Monroe.
