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Greenwood Memorial Terrace in Spokane is the final resting place for a well-known stage, screen and television character actor. You know his face when you see it, even if his name doesn’t come immediately to mind.

But then, that’s who a good character actor is.

Albert Salmi starred with Kim Stanley in the original Broadway production of “Bus Stop” in 1955, playing the cowboy Bo Decker. One of Salmi’s daughters recalled learning that when the film version was being cast the next year, with Marilyn Monroe in the lead, Monroe begged Salmi to reprise the role.

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Apparently he didn’t think much of film work, and refused. The role went to actor Don Murray, who went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for the performance.

Salmi was born in Brooklyn in 1928 to Finnish parents and grew up speaking Finnish.

After a stint in the military, he used the GI Bill to study method acting at the prestigious Actors Studio with Lee Stra