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Irving Brecher, 94 (1914 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies, the TV and radio hit "The Life of Riley" and the Oscar-nominated musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," has died. He was 94. Brecher died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to his wife, Norma. Brecher was a teenager in New York when he got his first comedy writing...
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Maria Elena Marques (2008)
MEXICO CITY - Mexican actress Maria Elena Marques, who starred in the 1947 movie "The Pearl," has died at the age of 83, her children announced Wednesday. Marques played the long-suffering wife of a fisherman who finds a beautiful but ill-fated pearl in the film based on a book by John Steinbeck. The film won a Golden Globe award for the luminous cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa. ...
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Baldev Raj Chopra, 93 (1915 - 2008)
MUMBAI, India - Veteran Indian filmmaker B.R. Chopra, whose Bollywood career spanned five decades, died at home on Wednesday. He was 94. Ailments relating to old age caused Chopra's death, said Monika Bhattacharya, a spokeswoman for movie studio Yash Raj Films, run by his younger brother. Chopra was known for tackling socially relevant themes in Hindi-language films. One of his...
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John Daly, 71 (1937 - 2008)
Los Angeles - John Daly, a British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, died Friday. He was 71. Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc., died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after struggling with cancer, said his daughter, Jenny Daly. ...
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Dina Cocea (2008)
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Dina Cocea, one of this country's best known actresses, died of a heart attack on Tuesday, a director said, and one theater critic mourned the loss of "the queen of Romanian theater." She was 95. Cocea, who performed on the stage and in movies for more than 50 years, died at Floreasca hospital, where she had been admitted several days earlier with a pulmonary...
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Delmar Watson, 82 (1926 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Delmar Watson, a child actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and later became a photographer who snapped gritty crime scenes and Hollywood stars, died Sunday. He was 82. Watson...
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Estelle Reiner, 94 (1914 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Estelle Reiner, who uttered the famous line, "I'll have what she's having," after watching Meg Ryan fake an orgasm in the movie "When Harry Met Sally," has died. She was 94. ...
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Gerard Damiano, 80 (1928 - 2008)
MIAMI - Gerard Damiano, director of the pioneering pornographic film that lent its name to the Watergate whistleblower known as "Deep Throat," has died. He was 80. Damiano died Saturday at a...
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Rudy Ray Moore, 71 (1937 - 2008)
AKRON, Ohio - Rudy Ray Moore, a raunchy 1970s comedian who played the title role of a flashy pimp in the movie "Dolemite" and influenced a generation of rappers, died Sunday. He was 81. Moore...
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Xie Jin, 84 (1923 - 2008)
Hong Kong - Veteran director Xie Jin, a prominent figure in modern Chinese cinema known for tackling the country's ultra-leftist Cultural Revolution, died Saturday. He was 84. The filmmaker...
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Guillaume Depardieu, 37 (1971 - 2008)
PARIS -- Hospital officials say 37-year-old French actor Guillaume Depardieu has died from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia. The son of French movie star Gerard Depardieu...
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Gil Stratton, 86 (1922 - 2008)
Los Angeles - Gil Stratton, a longtime television and radio news anchor in Southern California who later became the voice of the Rams and Santa Anita horse racing, died Saturday. He was 86. ...
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Servando Gonzalez (2008)
MEXICO CITY - Servando Gonzalez Hernandez rose from gofer at a Mexican film studio to become a director in Hollywood. But he may be most remembered in Mexico for a film that nobody ever saw. ...
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House Peters, Jr. (2008)
LOS ANGELES - House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Proctor & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners, died Wednesday. He was 92. Peters died of pneumonia at the...
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Humberto Solas, 67 (1941 - 2008)
HAVANA, Cuba - Humberto Solas, an award-winning Cuban filmmaker, has died of cancer. He was 66. State media said Solas died Wednesday. His works include the seminal 1968 film "Lucia," which...
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Anita Page, 98 (1910 - 2008)
Los Angeles - Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98. Page...
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Michael Pate, 88 (1920 - 2008)
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian actor Michael Pate, who appeared in more than 50 films and guest-starred in television shows at home and in the United States, has died of respiratory failure at age...
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Don LaFontaine, 68 (1940 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES — Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the now loved-catch phrase, "in a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie previews, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine...
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Jacqui Landrum, 64 (1943 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Jacqui Landrum, who teamed up with her husband to choreograph many Hollywood films, has died. She was 64. Landrum died of cancer Aug. 29 in Los Angeles, her husband Bill Landrum...
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Hazel Warp (2008)
BOZEMAN, Mont. - Hazel Warp, who was Vivien Leigh's stunt double in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 93. A spokeswoman at Evergreen Healthcare in Livingston confirmed Friday that Warp...
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Fred Crane, 90 (1918 - 2008)
ATLANTA - Fred Crane, the one-time actor whose Southern accent won him a slot as one of Scarlett O'Hara's beaux and the opening line in "Gone With the Wind," has died. Crane, who played one of...
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Leopoldo Serran, 66 (1942 - 2008)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Leopoldo Serran, the Brazilian screenwriter behind such 1970s art-house hits as "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands," and "Bye Bye Brazil," has died from liver cancer,...
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Howard G. Minsky, 94 (1914 - 2008)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Howard G. Minsky, a former Hollywood talent agent and producer of the movie "Love Story," has died. He was 94. His family said Minsky died of natural causes Sunday at a...
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Bernie Brillstein, 77 (1931 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES — Bernie Brillstein, a Hollywood talent agent, manager, producer and studio head who over half a century guided the careers of "Saturday Night Live" comedians and helped package a...
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Helene Indenbirken (2008)
BERLIN - Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio's grandmother has died in her hometown of Oer-Erkenschwick in Germany at age 93. Town spokesman Peter Raudszus says Helene Indenbirken died Monday in a...
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Youssef Chahine, 82 (1926 - 2008)
Cairo, Egypt - Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt's most lauded movie directors whose nearly five decades of films went on Fellini-esque flights of fancy and tackled social ills and Islamic...
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Bud Brown, 96 (1912 - 2008)
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Bud Browne, an innovator in surf filmmaking, has died. He was 96. Browne died Friday after a brief illness at a local residential care facility, officials from Wheeler...
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Charles Joffe, 78 (1929 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -Charles Joffe, the longtime Woody Allen producer who snagged a best picture Oscar for the filmmaker's famed comedy "Annie Hall," died Wednesday. He was 78. Joffe died at Cedars...
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Nonna Mordyukova, 82 (1925 - 2008)
MOSCOW - Russian actress Nonna Mordyukova, whose roles earned her the status of the quintessential Soviet woman, has died, Russia's Union of Cinematographers said Monday. She was 82. The cause of...
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Evelyn Keyes, 91 (1916 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in "Gone With the Wind" and counted director John Huston and bandleader Artie Shaw among her famous husbands, has...
