Damon Runyon

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 10/02/1880

Date of death : 12/10/1946

City of birth : Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Born out of wedlock in Manhattan, Kansas, but grew up in Denver. A close friend of fellow New York sportswriter--and former western gunfighter--William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, who knew the Runyan family in Denver. In the late teens and early 1920s both Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell worked as Runyon's leg men. Buried in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery.