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Harvey Korman
1927 - 2008
Best
known for his broad comic characterizations on The Carol Burnett Show
which garnered him four Emmy Awards. Almost exclusively a comic actor, he
stretched a bit to play straight man Bud Abbott opposite Buddy Hackett's
Lou Costello in the disappointing TV biopic Bud and Lou in 1978.
His film appearances include The Last of the Secret Agents, the
memorable performance as villain Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks' classic
Western spoof Blazing Saddles. He continued in two other Mel
Brooks films, as Dr Charles Montague in High Anxiety and as
Count
de Monet in History of the World Part I.
He also did cartoon voices as
well, the classic one was as The Great Kazoo, the snooty little green man
from the future in The
Flintstones
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Don
LaFontaine
1940-2008
Best known for his
oft-used catch line "In a world where..."
His rich voice has graced over 5,000 movie trailers in the span of 40+
years.
In 2006, he was featured in an auto insurance commercial spot as
"that movie announcer guy"
Heath Ledger
1979-2008
This young Aussie
actor featured in several films, including the Shakespeare-based
"10 Things I Hate About You" (The Taming of the Shrew), "Brokeback
Mountain"
"The Brothers Grimm." He was
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Estelle
Getty
1923-2008
Best known for her
role as the starchy Sophia Petrillo in the 80's TV show "Golden
Girls". She also did roles in the family film
"Stuart Little" and Sydney Pollack's classic
'Tootsie."
Bernie
Mac
1957-2008 Star
of the "Bernie Mac Show" and numerous other roles
including the role of Bosley in the "Charlie's Angels"
movie series. He also was in "What's the Worst That
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Ivan
Dixon
1931 - 2008
African-American
actor best known for his role of POW
radio technician Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe in the popular WWII sitcom Hogan's
Heroes.
He
also worked with Sidney
Poitier, in which he doubled for him in The Defiant Ones, and
in both
stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. and
A Patch of Blue.
During
the1970s and 80s he directed episodes of Nichols, The
Greatest American Hero, The
Rockford
Files, Magnum, P.I.
,
Quincy
, and In the Heat of the Night.
He also directed the cult classic The
Spook Who Sat by the Door.
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Suzanne
Pleshette
1937 - 2008
She was best known
for her role as Bob Hartley's wife Emily in The Bob Newhart Show.
Suzanne went to the
famed
New York
High School
for the Performing Arts, a semester at
Syracuse
University
, and then a semester at an elite finishing school for well-to-do young
ladies, Finch
College. then dropping out to become a protégée of famed acting teacher
Sanford Meisner at
New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
She debuted on TV in Harbourmaster in 1957, then a female lead
opposite superstar Jerry Lewis in the 1958
comedy film The Geisha Boy.
She replaced Anne Bancroft on stage for Broadway hit The
Miracle Worker in 1962.
Her most famous screen role was in Alfred Hitchcock
classic The Birds in 1963, as the brunette school teacher Annie Heyworth.
One of her most notable TV roles was that of the title role of Leona
Helmsley: The Queen of Mean in 1990.
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Sydney
Pollack
1934 - 2008
Academy Award-winning
director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and
produced over 40 films which include This Property Is Condemned,
The
Electric Horseman, Tootsie, Out of Africa, (which garnered the Best
Direction and Best Picture Oscars for 1985) produced The Talented Mr.
Ripley, The Quiet American, Cold Mountain, and directed The
Interpreter the first film ever shot on location at the United Nations
Headquarters and within the General Assembly in New York City.
He was also seen in the 2007 film Micheal Clayton with
George Clooney. He was also a
protégé of acting guru Sanford Meisner.
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Roy Scheider
1932 - 2008
Roy
has had many landmark roles both on stage and screen.
His professional debut was as Mercutio in New York Shakespeare's
Romeo
and Juliet in 1961. He
played minor roles in Paper Lion in 1968 and Stiletto in 1969.
His major rise came in the form of Jane Fonda's pimp
husband role in Klute in 1971, and as Gene Hackman's partner in The
French Connection for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor
Oscar. His first real lead
role was in The Seven-Ups in 1973.
Two years later came the role for which he is best
known, as Police Chief Brody in Jaws.
He had a sporadic film career during the 1980's, but still
with fine
roles, including the lead in the cop thriller Blue Thunder (1983),
as Heywood Floyd in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), a sequel
to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Russia
House (1990) and Romeo is Bleeding (1993).
One of his last gem roles was in The King of
Texas, as the loyal
Gloucester
character.
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Eva Dahlbeck
1920 - 2008
She was one of Sweden's most popular actresses in the 1940s and '50s
and became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number
of Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's films,
including Secrets of Women (1952), A Lesson of Love (1954)
and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955).
During the 1960s. she gave up acting for writing novels, putting out
more than a dozen. , Her
short-lived comeback in acting when she made her final appearance in the
Danish film Tintomara in which she starring alongside another famed
Swedish actress, Britt Ekland in 1970.
She was awarded the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1961 for
her acclaimed stage work in several plays. She attended the acting school
of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in
Stockholm
during World War II and later worked at the national stage for two
decades.
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Richard Widmark
1914 - 2008
Best known for his role as the giggling murderous psychopath Tommy
Udo in Kiss of Death, Richard's career included some film noir
classics like Street with No Name, Road House, Panic in the
Streets. Other roles
included Jim Bowie in The Alamo, in John Ford's Two Rode
Together with Jimmy Stewart, Judgment at Nuremburg, Madigan,
Murder on the Orient Express, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Coma, The Domino
Theory, and his final opus, True Colors.
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