Joan Alt is the spouse of Richard Allen York best known as Dick York, an American radio, stage, film, and television actor best known for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. Check below to know more about Dick York’s wife, Joan Alt.

Joan Alt: Bio Summary

Personal Details

Joan Alt was born Joan Barbara Alt but she is also known as Joan Barbara Alt York. Her father is John P. Alt and her mother is Cleonia Alt. Per some online sources, she was born on 26th September 1931 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

Joan Alt was a radio performer. She was in her husband Dick York’s memoir, The Seesaw Girl and Me, published after his death. The book is largely a love letter to Joan Alt, who was the seesaw girl of the title, stuck with him through the hard times.

Joan Alt is no longer alive. She has passed away. She died on 20th January 2012 in California, USA at age 80. She was laid to rest in Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield Township, Kent, Michigan, United States.

Joan Alt & Dick York

Joan Alt and Dick York were husband and wife. They met while Dick York was acting in the radio program ‘Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy’ and Joan Alt also come to perform in a radio commercial.

After some time of getting to know each other, they decided to get married and spend the rest of their lives together. They exchanged wedding vows on November 17, 1951. They spent 40 years together as husband and wife before Dick York passed away.

Joan Alt and Dick York were the parents of five children. Their children are Kim York, Mandy York, Stacy York, Christopher York, and Matthew York.

Who Is Dick York?

Dick York is a radio, stage, film, and television actor. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana but grew up in Chicago. He was welcomed by his parents Bernard York and Betty York on September 4, 1928. His father Bernard York, worked as a salesman while his mother Betty York worked as a seamstress.

Dick York started his career at the age of 15. He was the star of the CBS radio program That Brewster Boy. He was cast as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched, with his best-known motion-picture role as teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960).

Dick York had a serious back injury he sustained while working on the film They Came to Cordura in 1959 but that didn’t immediately end his career. He was seen in ABC comedy-drama Going My Way (1962) and was in the series, which lasted one season, as Tom Colwell, who operates a secular youth center.

Dick York was in the episodes of now-classic television series, including Justice, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Untouchables, Rawhide, The Americans, Wagon Train, Father Knows Best, and CBS’s The Twilight Zone and Route 66.

Dick York’s final two film credits were on two primetime television series, Simon & Simon and Fantasy Island.

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What Happened To Dick York?

Dick York often smoked cigarettes and he spent his final years battling emphysema. For Dick York to breathe, he was assisted by an oxygen tank in 1989.

Dick York died at age 63 on February 20, 1992. He died at Blodgett Hospital in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was buried at Plainfield Cemetery in Rockford, Michigan. His death was a result of complications from emphysema.

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