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John Ritter’s Brother Says Late Star Was Always ‘Determined to Be an Actor’: Inside His Legacy
John Ritter’s brother Tom Ritter says the late star was 'determined to be an actor' from a very young age in this exclusive interview with Closer Weekly.
Tom remembers their childhood as a “fairly typical suburban Los Angeles upbringing,” but the Ritter family had ties to show business. Dad Tex Ritter was a popular singing cowboy who made movies in the 1930s and 1940s, while mom Dorothy Fay had acted in The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. George Rose/Getty Images John initially majored in psychology at the University of Southern California but switched his concentration to theater and enrolled in the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
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