‘Gunsmoke’ actor James Arness dies at 88
LOS ANGELES – JAMES Arness, the towering actor who played rugged lawman Matt Dillon in long-running US television series Gunsmoke, died on Friday at the age of 88, his family said. One of US television’s most enduring stars during the show’s 20-year run from 1955-75, he returned in a number of Gunsmoke TV movies in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam airport at 70
Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music’s premier vocalists.
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Strokes – Patricia Neal Dies At 84
Actress Patricia Neal, whose own life was seemingly filled with more drama than the slew of movies she appeared in over her long career, died Sunday of lung cancer in…
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Blaxploitation star Vonetta McGee dies
Vonetta McGee, who co-starred in 1970s blaxploitation movies such as “Blacula,” died July 9 at a hospital in Berkeley.
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Robert Radnitz, producer of family movies, dies at 85 of stroke complications
MALIBU, Calif. – Robert B. Radnitz, an English teacher who went on to produce family movies including “Sounder” and “Island of the Blue Dolphins,” has died at his Malibu home. He was 85.
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