Harold Russell was a U.S. Army soldier best known for his role as a wounded U.S. sailor who lost both hands in the 1946 film "The Best Years Of Our Lives." Russell was not a professional actor ...

Harold Russell, double amputee, who won an Academy Award for his first and only previous film,”The Best Years of Our Lives,” and is now at work on Richard Donner’s film “Inside movies.” ...

We look at the story of Harold Russell, ... There, while demonstrating to his trainees, a defective fuse on a stick of TNT caused an explosion and Russell lost both of his hands.

It has been 43 years since Harold Russell leaped from the silver screen into the hearts and minds of Americans.A double amputee who lost his hands in a World War II training accident, Russell was ...

Harold Russell, the disabled World ... “Victory in My Hands,” and later started a public relations company. The thread that ran throughout his adult life, however, was helping the disabled.

Harold Russell, the onetime meat cutter who lost both hands during World War II and went on to win an Academy Award for playing a disabled veteran in the 1946 film ”The Best Years of Our Lives ...

Russell Obit Harold Russell, ... One was Best Supporting Actor, the other was a special award for his portrayal of a man, like him, with no hands, returning to society after a war accident.

Harold Russell, the disabled World War II veteran who received two Academy Awards for his role in “The Best Years of Our Lives,” has died. He was 88. Russell, who lost both of his hands in an ...

Harold Russell, 88, a disabled World War II veteran who received two Academy Awards for his riveting portrayal of a double amputee in the 1946 homecoming film "The Best Years of Our Lives," died ...