Kevin McCarthy, a veteran actor best known as the star of the 1956 sci-fi cult film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died Saturday in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He was 96. Over his 70-plus year career on stage and screen, McCarthy appeared in some 50 movies and scores of TV shows, as well as theater productions. He won a Golden Globe award for his role as Biff Loman in the 1951 film version of the Arthur Miller play “Death of a Salesman.” But his biggest hit was as Miles Bennell in “Body Snatchers,” in which he portrayed a medical doctor.
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