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Charles McGraw by killing Barrows's wife. McGraw also appeared in an episode of "The Untouchables" titled "The Jake Lingle Killing." This was notable as a pre-"Hawaii Five-O" Jack Lord was the lead hero in the show instead of Ness. He also portrayed an trigger-happy rear admiral in an episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" titled "The Sky is Falling." McGraw married Freda Choy Kitt in 1938. They had a daughter. Charles McGraw died after slipping and falling through a glass shower door in his Studio City, California, home on July 30, 1980, severing an artery in his arm. (A