Actor’s New Perch Is in Eagle Rock
Actor DORIAN HAREWOOD and his wife, actress/writer ANN McCURRY, have sold their home in Hollywood’s Beachwood Canyon and moved into a house they bought in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles.
Harewood may be best remembered for his parts as Simon Haley in the TV saga “Roots, the Next Generation” and Jesse Owens in the Operation Prime-Time miniseries. He recently appeared in three episodes of ABC-TV’s “China Beach” and just completed filming a co-starring role, with Charlton Heston, in the feature film “Solar Crisis.”
“I’m very happily busy,” he said about his career and his home life. “We just moved in, and I’m thinking about putting in a basketball or tennis court and bringing in a pool table.”
His new home has four bedrooms, three baths and a swimming pool on a hill with a view, which he says extends “on a clear day from our old-style front porch to Catalina.”
The home is a Victorian farmhouse built in 1886. “My wife collects antiques,” he said, “and they work real well here. Some were too large for our other house, but they’re swallowed up in this one.”
The Victorian has about 3,200 square feet, in contrast with his old home, a 55-year-old Tudor, which has an estimated 2,200 square feet.
The actor sold that house to an oil company executive from New Jersey for close to its asking price--in the $500,000 range--and paid in the $700,000-range for the Victorian, said industry sources not involved in the deal. Rick Zeff of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, helped the Harewoods sell their Beachwood Canyon home, and Zeff and his mother, Yetta, of Coldwell Banker, Sherman Oaks, represented the couple in buying in Eagle Rock.
The Harewoods needed more room not only for their antiques but also for their growing family. They have two young children, one a few months old. “And we have three dogs,” he said. “They love our new home.”
With almost an acre of land, it has lots of room for the dogs to run, he noted. “And it has a lot of trees. A previous owner from 50 or 60 years ago was a doctor who brought 20 different species here from everywhere he traveled. So it’s like being in a forest in the country.”
A previous owner turned the attic into an office. “That’s my music room now,” Harewood said.
Harewood plans to do a sequel to NBC-TV’s “Polly,” Walt Disney Production’s two-hour musical update of “Pollyanna,” in which he starred, and he’s working on his second record album. However, next month, he expects to start filming an ABC-TV pilot for a medical series co-starring Perry King.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has been house hunting on the Westside for “any Mediterranean that is not on the movie-star maps,” sources say. The pop star has lived off and on in Los Angeles for a long time, but is now looking to buy what the sources described as “a home rather than a house, since he is about to become a father.”
It was announced in January that the singer and his girlfriend, Patti Scialfa, will soon become parents.
ELTON JOHN’S $50,000-, two-month lease of a house in the Beverly Hills Post Office area was due to expire earlier this month, and the entertainer is expected to take up residence in May in Atlantic City.
John has been signed to be the first performer at Donald Trump’s $1-billion Taj Mahal, due to open April 2.
CHARLES GRODIN has leased what is being described as “one of Beverly Hills’ 10 original homes” while in town filming an upcoming Disney movie, in which he stars, with the working title “Filofax.”
Grodin is paying $13,500 a month, sources say, for the three-bedroom, three-bath Cape Cod-style residence, rented at various times to such celebs as Richard Burton, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan King, Stevie Nicks and Prince Mohammed Ashmawhi of Saudi Arabia. Kay Pick of Mike Silverman’s office handled the most recent lease.
The house, on North Canon Drive, has a swimming pool, two changing rooms, a sauna and a guest house.
ART LUND, who began his show-biz career as a lead singer with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and went on to make several gold records and a number of movies, including “Calamity Jane” with Carol Burnett, is moving from California to Utah.
He sold his Sherman Oaks home of 20 years for nearly $800,000 and is relocating, with his bride of a few months, to their hometown of Salt Lake City.
His bride was his childhood sweetheart. They had both raised families, became single again and met after 52 years apart.
Lund’s 3,000-square-foot, Spanish-style house is on a double lot that includes a guest house and a gently sloping garden with a water fountain that Lund built himself. The guest house was built in the ‘30s, the main house in the ‘50s.
Constance Brenner of Mike Glickman Realty’s East Sherman Oaks office was the listing broker; Eric Lieberman of Bud Margolin Realty, Studio City, was the selling broker.
CESAR ROSAS, vocalist and guitarist for Los Lobos, has put his Rowland Heights mini-horse ranch on the market at $449,950.
The ranch, about 25 miles east of Los Angeles, has a corral, playhouse or tack room and four-bedroom, three-bath main house on about half an acre, zoned for up to five horses.
Rosas and his wife, Sandra, have purchased land in an exclusive area of Chino Hills where they plan to build a house for themselves and their three children, according to listing agents Shelley Reeves and Bonnie Benham of Century 21/Emery Real Estate in City of Industry.
ED McMAHON, Johnny Carson’s TV sidekick, has purchased a new, $2.6-million house in The Summit, a development overlooking Beverly Hills. The house has five bedrooms, maid’s quarters and 5 1/2 baths in slightly more than 7,000 square feet. It also has a view of the ocean and the city.
Joe Babajian and Judy Cycon of Fred Sands Estates were the listing agents; Zoeanne Fisher of Mike Glickman Realty was the selling agent.
