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Reg Varney, 92 (1916 - 2008)
Reg Varney, a comic actor who played a cheery Cockney bus driver in British sitcom "On the Buses," died Sunday, his daughter said. He was 92. Daughter Jeanne Marley said Varney died at a nursing home in Budleigh Salterton, southwest England, after a short illness. Born in east London in 1916, Varney began his career as a singer, piano player and comic in the rough-and-tumble world of...
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Heather Pick (2008)
Columbus, Ohio - Heather Pick, a Columbus TV news anchor who waged a long and public fight with breast cancer, has died. She was 38. On its Web site, WBNS-TV said Heather Pick died Friday at home surrounded by her family. Pick was the morning co-anchor on Channel 10. She was found to have breast cancer in 1999, and she learned in 2004 that the disease had spread to her spine and...
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Tony Dean (2008)
PIERRE, S.D. - Tony Dean, a nationally known outdoor enthusiast who promoted South Dakota with his radio and television shows, died Sunday. He was 67. The Hofmeister Isburg Funeral Chapel confirmed that he died Sunday morning. Dean, whose real name was Anthony DeChandt, returned to his Pierre home last week after being hospitalized for complications from appendix removal. Dean was...
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Jack Narz, 85 (1922 - 2008)
Jack Narz, a longtime game show host who was an early victim of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when a show he was hosting was canceled, died Wednesday. He was 85. Narz died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, his wife, Delores, said Thursday. Among the shows he hosted over the years were "Video Village," which began in 1960, "Seven Keys," 1961, "I'll Bet,"...
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Eileen Herlie, 90 (1918 - 2008)
NEW YORK -- Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on "All My Children" for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90. Herlie died Wednesday of pneumonia, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the ABC soap opera's executive producer. The actress joined the long-running show in 1976 to play Myrtle, who became the surrogate mother to many of the soap's...
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Lloyd Thaxton, 81 (1927 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Lloyd Thaxton, an Emmy Award-winning producer and host of a popular Los Angeles television dance show that went national in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Thaxton died of...
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Larry Birleffi (2008)
Cheyenne, Wyo. - Larry Birleffi, a television and radio broadcaster known for more than 50 years as the "Voice of the Wyoming Cowboys," died Saturday. He was 90. He died at Davis Hospice...
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Oliver Kaufman Crawford (2008)
LOS ANGELES - Oliver Kaufman Crawford, who overcame the "Red Scare" blacklist of the 1950s to become one of television's most successful writers, died Wednesday. He was 91. Crawford wrote for...
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George Putnam, 94 (1914 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - George Putnam, the flamboyant broadcasting pioneer whose bombastic style and arch-conservative political views made him one of the nation's highest paid TV news anchors and one of...
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Sheldon Keller, 85 (1923 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Sheldon Keller, a writer who collaborated with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on the 1950s sketch comedy show "Caesar's Hour" and wrote variety shows for Frank...
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Tad Mosel, 86 (1922 - 2008)
CONCORD, N.H. - Tad Mosel, television screenwriter and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "All the Way Home," died Sunday. He was 86. Mosel died at a hospice in Concord, N.H., said a...
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Bill Stulla, 97 (1911 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Bill Stulla, who as the star of local TV's "Cartoon Express with Engineer Bill" entertained young baby boomers with the "red light, green light" milk game and model trains, died...
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Estelle Getty, 84 (1923 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The...
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Dercy Goncalves, 101 (1907 - 2008)
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Brazilian actress and comedian Dercy Goncalves, known for her vulgar wit and scandalous behavior, has died. She was 101. Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Sao Lucas says Goncalves...
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Larry Haines, 89 (1918 - 2008)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89. Haines, who also had a successful career on...
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B. Don Magness (2008)
FORT WORTH, Texas - B. Don Magness, the colorful, cigar-chomping showman dubbed Mr. Miss Texas and credited with shaping the state's beauty pageant into the nation's largest state pageant, has...
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Larry Harmon, 83 (1925 - 2008)
Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. His...
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Tim Russert, 58 (1950 - 2008)
Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential...
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Harvey Korman, 81 (1927 - 2008)
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in ...
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Suzanne Pleshette, 70 (1937 - 2008)
Suzanne Pleshette, best known for her role as Bob Newhart's wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, just days before a ceremony honoring her with a star on the...
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Joey Bishop, 89 (1918 - 2007)
Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at 89. He was the group's...
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Tom Snyder, 71 (1936 - 2007)
Talk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television, has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71. Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from...
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Tom Poston, 85 (1921 - 2007)
Tom Poston, the tall, pasty-faced comic who found fame and fortune playing a clueless everyman on such hit television shows as "Newhart" and "Mork and Mindy," has died. He was 85. Poston, who...
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Anna Nicole Smith, 39 (1967 - 2007)
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale -- Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon,...
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James Doohan, 85 (1920 - 2005)
James Doohan, 85, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died July 20 at his home...
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Eddie Albert, 99 (1906 - 2005)
Eddie Albert was a versatile actor who moved smoothly from the Broadway stage to movies, but he found stardom as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's Green Acres. ...
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Isabel Sanford, 86 (1917 - 2004)
LOS ANGELES - Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie," Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday. She was 86. Sanford...
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Rod Steiger, 77 (1925 - 2002)
Rod Steiger, who played Marlon Brando's mob-connected brother in "On the Waterfront" and won the 1967 Oscar for best actor for his role as the redneck Southern police chief in "In the Heat of the...
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Steve Allen, 78 (1921 - 2000)
Steve Allen, the droll comic who pioneered late night television with the original "Tonight Show,'' composed more than 4,000 songs and wrote 40 books, has died at 78. He died Monday night at...
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Flip Wilson, 64 (1933 - 1998)
In 1970, the news was filled with anti-war demonstrations and black power. On the nation's TV screens, Flip Wilson put on a wig and a minidress and became Geraldine, who screeched: "What you see...
