Ben Carruthers

His other films included A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Glenn Gilpin, Fearless Frank (1967), To Grab the Ring (1968), The Lost Continent (1968), Riot (1969) as the unpredictable and psychotic Joe Surefoot,[1] Man in the Wilderness (1971), and Universal Soldier (1971).

[3] His first son, Caine Carruthers, was a bass player and was in various successful bands, including Katmandu and The Untouchables.

[citation needed] According to his son, Ben Carruthers died of spinal cancer in 1983 at the premature age of forty-seven, not liver failure as is often stated as his father’s cause of death.

[citation needed] As lead singer of Ben Carruthers and the Deep, he recorded the track "Jack O' Diamonds" in 1965, a song he co-wrote using lyrics given to him by Bob Dylan.

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