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Betty Brodel, Actress and Sister of ‘Sergeant York’ Star Joan Leslie, Dies at 104
Betty Brodel, a singer, actress and older sister of High Sierra and Sergeant York star Joan Leslie, died Sunday in Florida, family member Cathy Palmer told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 104. Brodel appeared with Leslie in the wartime charity films Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) and Hollywood Canteen (1944), plus Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), […]
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David Soul, ‘Starsky and Hutch’ Actor, Dies at 80
David Soul, who starred alongside Paul Michael Glaser on the 1970s’ ABC buddy cop show Starsky and Hutch and had a No. 1 hit with the song “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died. He was 80. Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife, Helen […]
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Robert Blake, Combustible Star of ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Baretta,’ Dies at 89
Robert Blake, who played the crazed real-life killer Perry Smith in Truman Copote’s In Cold Blood and the popular TV cop Tony Baretta before a sensational Hollywood murder trial destroyed his career, has died. He was 89. Blake, who got his start as a child star in the 1940s in the Our Gang comedy shorts […]
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Gina Lollobrigida, Legendary Italian Screen Siren, Dies at 95
The actress resisted Howard Hughes' advances and rose to prominence in such films as 'Beat the Devil,' 'Trapeze' and 'Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.'
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Mickey Kuhn, Child Actor in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 90
Mickey Kuhn, the busy child actor of the 1930s and ’40s who played Beau Wilkes, the son of Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard’s characters, in Gone With the Wind, has died. He was 90. Kuhn died Sunday in a hospice facility in Naples, Florida, his wife, Barbara, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was in […]
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Nehemiah Persoff, Actor in ‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘Yentl,’ Dies at 102
Nehemiah Persoff, a charter member of the Actors Studio who appeared in dozens of notable films and TV shows, from 'Some Like It Hot' and 'On the Waterfront' to 'The Twilight Zone' and 'The Untouchables,' has died. He was 1xx.
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Sam Adams, Longtime Literary Agent in Hollywood, Dies at 94
Sam Adams, the literary agent who represented the likes of Alvin Sargent, John Badham, Peter Bogdanovich, Margaret Atwood, Earl Hamner Jr. and Stephen J. Cannell during his long career, has died. He was 94. Adams died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his wife of 35 years, harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, […]
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