Thomas Tryon, a Hollywood leading man who became the best-selling author of books like "The Other," died of stomach cancer. He was 65.

Tryon died Wednesday after an illness of several months.Tryon's works included "Harvest Home," "Crowned Heads," "Lady," "All That Glitters" and "The Night of the Moonbow," along with last year's epic, "The Wings of Morning."

A strong-featured, muscular man with black hair, Tryon appeared in several films, but made the dramatic switch to literature after a run-in with Otto Preminger.

The director gave Tryon his biggest role, playing the lead in a film based on "The Cardinal."

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"On the second day of filming, Preminger fired and rehired me within one hour," Tryon recalled in an interview last October.

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