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est remembered today as a busy character actor in movies like “Fargo” (as William H. Macy’s boss) and on TV, Harve Presnell began his Hollywood career as a singing actor, recreating his Broadway role in the movie version of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (1965). He somehow survived MGM’s followup, “When the Boys Meet the Girls,” Sam Katzman’s very loose remake of “Girl Crazy” with Connie Francis, Liberace, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Herman’s Hermits, Louis Armstrong and Liberace. Harve memorably delivered “I Call the Wind Maria” in “Paint Your Wagon” (1969), a notorious musical starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg, none of them professional singers. Four decades later, Clint cast Harve in a small nonsinging role in “Flags of Our Father.”