OBITUARY Category

Fess Parker has died. The actor, who is best known for his starring role as Davy Crocket in the hit TV series, Davy Crocket, was an icon for a whole generation of kids beginning during the 1950s.

Not only did children tune in to watch the King of the Wild Frontier each week, they went [...]


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Peter Graves, who is best known for his roles in the TV series Mission Impossible and the disaster movie send-up, Airplane, has died.

According to the AP, Graves died Sunday shortly after returning to his Los Angeles home from a brunch with his family.

He played James Phelps in Mission Impossible, leader of an elite [...]


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COREY HAIM FOUND DEAD

In: BREAKING NEWS, GENERAL, NEWS OF THE DAY, OBITUARY
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Former child star, Corey Haim was found dead of what is suspected to be an overdose. Reports say the actor, who had battled substance abuse for years, was found unresponsive in an Oakwood [...]

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Producer, David Brown died Sunday in New York, it was revealed today. Brown was instrumental in catapulting the movie careers of not only Elvis Presley with Love Me Tender, but Steven Spielberg with both The Sugarland Express and Jaws.

Brown had a glut of films to his credit including the Oscar-winning flick, The Sting as [...]


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On this day in 1974, Samuel Goldwyn, one of the world’s greatest independent film producers, dies  at age 92.

Goldwyn was born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Poland. At age 11, he journeyed alone to England, where he stayed with relatives and worked as a blacksmith’s helper. Two years after arriving in England, he emigrated alone and [...]


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J. D. SALINGER: R.I.P.

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Word has just come in that obsessively reclusive author J. D. SALINGER (CATCHER IN THE RYE) has died at the age of 91. Details to follow. 
UPDATE:
Hit the link for full scoop:

via-NEW-YORK-TIMES


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ZELDA RUBINSTEIN R.I.P

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Zelda Rubinstein, the diminutive character actress with the childlike voice who was best known as the psychic called in to rid a suburban home of demonic forces in the 1982 horror movie “Poltergeist,” has died. She was 76.

Rubinstein, who also appeared as the mother figure in a high-profile mid-1980s public awareness campaign in Los [...]


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PERNELL ROBERTS R.I.P.

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Pernell Roberts, the man who played Adam Cartwright in “Bonanza” and the title character in “Trapper John, M.D.,” has died at 81.

His wife, Eleanor Criswell, told The Los Angeles Times that he passed away from cancer on Sunday.

Roberts starred as the eldest son of the Cartwright family from  ’Bonanza’s’ beginning in 1959.

Despite being part of one [...]


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On this day in 1986, director Vincente Minnelli, father of Liza Minnelli, dies at the age of 83. In the mid-1930s, Minnelli directed Broadway musicals, including Ziegfeld Follies. He directed such classic films as An American in Paris, Father of the Bride, and Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, whom he married in [...]


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Today fans will have the opportunity to say goodbye to Teddy Pendergrass who died January 13th from color cancer at the age of 59.
 
A public viewing of the legendary soul singer is being held in Philly from noon to 8:00 p.m., allowing for plenty of time for his fans to pay their respects.

He was [...]


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