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The Blackadder star died June 17 at 80. Byrne studied drama and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s. Her other television credits include the BBC children's series Playdays, in which she starred as Betty the Tea Lady. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter died June 30 at 84 of pulmonary cardiac arrest. Mazursky wrote and directed a number of films, including An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Harry and Tonto and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. He received five Academy Award nominations: three for Best Original Screenplay, one for Best Adapted Screenplay and one for Best Picture (An Unmarried Woman). As an actor, he made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's first film, 1953's Fear and Desire. He later had supporting roles in A Star Is Born, History of the World Part I, Carlito's Way and Crazy in Alabama. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keych…
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The daughter of musician Bob Geldof and late actress Paula Yates was found dead in her home at 25 on April 7. The musical heiress began writing a column for Elle magazine at the age of 15. She also wrote for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. Geldof also worked as a television host and a model. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The legendary folk singer died Jan. 27 at 94 of natural causes. Seeger recorded more than 100 albums in his career and is credited as a songwriter on iconic folk tunes including "Turn, Turn, Turn," "If I Had a Hammer" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." He also helped to make "We Shall Overcome" a mainstream protest anthem. A one-time member of the Communist Party who later renounced the movement, Seeger found himself in political hot water in the 1950s. He was banned from public television for a decade after being interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Seeger eventually got back in the U.S. Government's good graces and was honored at the Kennedy …
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A Zen Buddhist, spy and activist, Matthiessen cofounded The Paris Review and won National Book Awards for The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country. He wrote nonfiction and fiction but described fiction as his passion. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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Half of the iconic folk/bluegrass Everly Brothers duo, the singer and songwriter skyrocketed to fame in the ’50s with the release of “Bye Bye Love.” The group influenced countless artists that followed, including the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Oscar winner was found dead on Feb. 2 at 46 of an apparent heroin overdose. Hoffman, who had been sober for 23 years, entered a detox facility for heroin last spring. Hoffman began his acting career in the early '90s, appearing in such films as Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2005, he played the title role in Capote, for which he received the Best Actor Oscar. He also received Oscar nominations for his supporting performances in Charlie Wilson's War, Doubt and The Master. In addition to his film work, Hoffman earned Tony nods for True West, Death of a Salesman and Long Day's Journey into Night. The actor, who set to star in th…
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The deaf actress who won the best actress Tony Award in 1980 for her performance in the best play winner Children of a Lesser God, died on April 10. She was 70. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Emmy-winning actress and singer died Sept. 20 at 84 of natural causes. In addition to playing the terrorized wife in 1962's Cape Fear, Bergen was also well known for playing the first female president in Kisses for My President. She won an Emmy in 1958 for the anthology series Playhouse 90 and was nominated again in 1989 for supporting actress for the miniseries War and Remembrance. Bergen also earned a Tony nomination for her performance in the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies. Most recently, she portrayed Felicity Huffman's mother on Desperate Housewives and the mistress of Tony Soprano's father on The Sopranos. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keycha…
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The Waltons star died Feb. 13 at 86. Waite earned an Emmy nomination for playing patriarch John on The Waltons in 1978. He went on to reprise his role as John Walton in several subsequent TV movies. Waite also earned an Emmy nomination in 1977 for his work in the acclaimed miniseries Roots. He enjoyed a long career on the small screen which also included notable roles on The Mississippi, Murder One and Carnivale. In recent years, Waite had recurred on NCIS and Bonesas Gibbs' father and Booth's grandfather, respectively. Waite's film credits include Cool Hand Luke, Five Easy Pieces, The Bodyguard and Cliffhanger. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain fro…
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The Oscar-winning director and actor died Aug. 24 at 90. A stage vet, the Brit is best known in the U.S. for his roles as Santa Claus in the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street, and Dr. John Hammond in Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World. He also appeared in 1963's The Great Escape. He won two Oscars for Gandhi: Best Picture and Best Director. Attenborough also helmed <>A Chorus Line and Shadowlands. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Little House on the Prairie star died Feb. 3 at 89. Born in Zion, Ill., Bull began his acting career with stage roles at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. In the 1960s, he starred as Doc on ABC'sVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea before landing the role of Nels on Little House in the Prairie. Bull played the character from 1974 to 1983. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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Kiel, who played villain Jaws in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, died Sept. 10 at 74. A Detroit native, Kiel stood at nearly 7 feet 2 inches tall due to a hormonal condition. His other television and film credits include The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Happy Gilmore as Adam Sandler's boss Mr. Larson. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Mary Tyler Moore actor died Nov. 4 at 66. Schaal played four characters on Mary Tyler Moore, twin brothers Howard and Paul Arnell, Dino and Chuckles the Clown, and appeared on its spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis. Throughout the '60s and '70s he had recurring guest-starring roles on Dick Van Dyke, That Girl and Bob Newhart. He notably appeared in the films Slaughterhouse-Five, Once Bitten and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Young Ones and Blackadder died June 9 at 56. "There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing," Adrian Edmondson, Mayall's writing and performing partner, said. "They were some of the most carefree, stupid days I ever had, and I feel privileged to have shared them with him. And now he's died for real. Without me, Selfish bastard." Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas died Saturday night, Sept. 20, 2014 after a car accident near his Nashville home, according to police. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The prolific producer died July 30 at 90. Among the more than 200 programs and miniseries Halmi produced were Gypsy (1993) starring Bette Midler, The Lion in Winter (2003) starring Glenn Close, Gulliver's Travels (1996) starring Ted Danson, and In Cold Blood (1996) with Anthony Edwards. He also produced the 1994 miniseries Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Halmi often co-produced with his son, Robert Halmi, Jr. In total, his projects earned 480 Emmy nominations and 136 Emmy Award wins. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Mexican comedian and screenwriter, known by his nickname "Chespirito," died Nov. 28 at 85 from a heart attack. Considered to be one of Mexico's greatest comedic actors, he created and starred in a pair of successful television comedies in the early 1970s, El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulin Colorado. Bolaños' character in the latter, "The Crimson Grasshopper," a timid and mostly ineffective superhero was the inspiration for The Simpsons' Bumblebee Man character. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Oscar-winning comic legend died Aug. 11 at 63 of a suspected suicide. After breaking through with his manic alien Mork on Mork & Mindy and stand-up work, Williams launched a varied film career, earning Oscar nominations for Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and The Fisher King before winning for Good Will Hunting. He scored mainstream hits with Mrs. Doubtfire, Aladdin (voicing the Genie, for which he received a special Golden Globe), The Birdcage and Night at the Museum, and played against type in One Hour Photo, Insomnia and Death to Smoochy. Williams, who won two Emmys, three other Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammys, most rece…
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Roger Hill, best known for playing gang leader Cyrus in the 1979 cult classic The Warriors, died Feb. 20 at 65. After his breakout role in The Warriors, Hill played Alec Lowndes on One Life to Live from 1982 to 1985. After 20 years as an actor, Hill left show business and spent time working as a part-time librarian and writing poetry. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The Shipping Wars star passed away on Jan. 17 after a major heart attack at the age of 49. The A&E star left behind his longtime girlfriend and his son Travis, who he raised by himself for more than 18 years. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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The boxer, who spent 19 years in prison for a wrongfully convicted triple homicide, died April 20 at 76 of prostate cancer. During his brief career, Carter recorded 27 wins, 12 losses and one draw in 40 fights before he was incarcerated in 1967 for three murders despite a lack of physical evidence and improper handling of the investigation by police. He was convicted again in 1976 during a new trial and was finally released in 1985. During the second trial, Bob Dylan penned the song "Hurricane," insisting that Carter was innocent. Denzel Washington won a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nomination for portraying Carter in the 1999 film The Hurricane. Check This Out, Get …
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The pioneering actress and activist died June 11 at 91. Dee studied at the American Negro Theater in New York City before landing jobs on Broadway in the 1940s, where she met her husband of 56 years and frequent collaborator, Ossie Davis. (He passed away in 2005.) Dee collaborated five times with Sidney Poitier, including on A Raisin in the Sun. She also starred in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing alongside her husband and won an Emmy for supporting actress for 1990'sDecoration Day. She received an Oscar nomination at the age of 83 for American Gangster. A civil rights activist, Dee served alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X as masters of ceremonies for the histor…
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The Gilligan's Island star died Jan. 16 at 89 of kidney failure. Johnson earned a Purple Heart and several other medals for his service in World War II and, after he was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1945, used funds from the GI Bill to enroll in the Actors Lab in Hollywood. In addition to playing The Professor on Gilligan, Johnson appeared on Dallas and The Twilight Zone. He also published his memoirs under the title Here on Gilligan's Isle. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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Ruth Robinson Duccini, best known for her role as a Munchkin in the 1939 classic The Wizard Oz, died of natural causes at age 95. Duccini was residing at a hospice care center in Las Vegas when she passed on Jan. 16. Check This Out, Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain from Amazon For Only $7.25, Order Now They’re Going Fast: just click here Click here to view the article
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