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Actor and comedian Matthew Perry has died from an apparent drowning. He was 54. He was best known for portraying the character Chandler on the show Friends.
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Actor, author, and musician David McCallum passed away today. He was 90. Mr. McCallum was known for playing Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Steel in Sapphire and Steel, and Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard in NCIS. He was also in memorable films such as The Great Escape and The Greatest Story Ever Told. You will always be my favorite Russian spy.
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Game show host, Bob Barker passed away today at age 99. He is best remembered as the host The Price is Right, from 1972 to 2007. An animal rights activist, he ended every show with the phrase, “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.” Rest in peace good sir. Rest in peace.
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Academy Award winning director, William Friedkin passed away today from pneumonia and heart failure. He was 87. He was the director behind the classics The Exorcist and The French Connection.
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Actress and singer Tina Turner has passed away. The eight time Grammy winner was 83.
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Musician, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte has died of heart failure. He was 96. The calypso singer is best known for his songs “The Banana Boat Song” and “Jump in the Line.” Both of which were featured in blockbuster Beetlejuice.
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Actress Raquel Welch passed away February 15 at the age of 83. She was known for such films as One Million Years B.C., Fantastic Voyage, and the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers. Her poster from One Million Years B.C. was immortalized in The Shawshank Redemption.
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Actress Louise Fletcher passed away September 23, she was 88. She is best known for her Academy Award winning performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in which she portrayed Nurse Ratchet.
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Actor Clu Galager passed away August 5 at the age of 93. He was best known for his portrayals of Billy the Kid in The Tall Man and Emmett Ryker in The Virginian.
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Actor Paul Sorvino passed away July 25. He was 83. Mr. Sorvino was known for his roles in Goodfellas, Law & Order, and Repo! The Genetic Opera. He was also an accomplished opera singer and father to Academy Award winning actress Mira Sorvino.
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Voice actor Billy Kametz passed away on June 9 from colon cancer. He was 35. He is best know for voicing Josuke Higashikata in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable and Naofumi Iwatani in The Rising of the Shield Hero, among others. Link to his obituary: https://obits.pennlive.com/us/obituaries/pennlive/name/billy-kametz-obituary?id=35161536
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Country singer Naomi Judd passed away on April 30. She was 76. Her daughters, fellow country singer Wynonna, and actress Ashley Judd released a statement saying, "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness." May you now know peace Ms. Judd.
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Actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried passed away today from ventricular tachycardia. He was 67. He voiced Iago in Disney’s animated Aladdin films. You were an undeniable part of my childhood. Rest in peace sir.
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Actor and Academy Award winner, William Hurt passed away from prostate cancer. He was 71.
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Happy birthday to Joe Don Baker of Mitchell and Final Justice fame!
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Actor and activist, Sidney Poitier, passed away January 7 at age 94. He was the first Black male to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964 for Lilies of the Field. He received multiple awards and accolades for acting, as well honors, such as Presidential Metal of Freedom. In addition to his Oscar winning performance in Lilies of the Field, he also appeared in such classics as Blackboard Jungle, Porgy and Bess, The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, and In the Heat of the Night. Mr. Poitier achieved and did so much more than what I can even put in this post. He was and is truly a legend.
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Esteemed Kenyan conservationist, paleoanthropologist and politician, Richard Leakey, passed away January 2 at the age of 77. In 1984 a member of Leakey’s team discovered the almost complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster, KNM-WT 15000. The discovery of KNN-WT 15000, also known as the Turkana boy or the Nariokotome Boy, was wonderfully accounted for in the book The Wisdom of the Bones. This book is an excellent read and I can not recommend it highly enough.
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Tony Award winning lyricist and composer, Stephen Sondheim passed away November 26. He was 91. He is best known for his works Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and the lyrics to West Side Story.
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ADR director, screenwriter, and voice actor Christopher Ayers, passed away October 18 due to complications from COPD. He was 56. He was known for providing the voice of Frieza in the English dub of the anime Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Super, and the movies Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection’F’ and Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
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Photorealist painter Chuck Close passed away August 19. He was 81.
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ZZ Top bassist, Dusty Hill, passed away in his sleep on July 28. He was 72.
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Actor and singer Johnny Crawford passed away April 29 at the age of 75. He is best remembered for portraying Mark McCain in the western series The Rifleman.
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Christian singer Carmen passed away February 16 from complications related to hernia surgery. He was 65. https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2021/february/christian-singer-carman-dies-after-being-hospitalized-for-health-crisis
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Academy Award winning actor, and legend, Christopher Plummer passed away today. He was 91.
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Academy Award winning actress Cloris Leachman passed away on January 27. She was 94.
