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From: Daily Variety
Date: 20051117
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Actor David Case, who recorded more than 700 books on audiotape, died Oct. 1 in El Sobrante, Calif. He was 73.

Born in 1932, he won a voice scholarship to a private school in Oxford. The London-born actor's two-decade recording career largely ended in 2000 when he developed throat cancer. He read modern works such as Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" and was known for excelling at British parts. That included recording 13 novels by Anthony Trollope, 36 by P.G. Wodehouse and the entire "Forsyte" chronicles by John Galsworthy.

The actor, who was primarily associated with Books ...

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