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Dec 28, 2021 · Freddy Marks: One third of the musical trio Rod, Jane and Freddy and former Rainbow cast member. Married to co-star Jane Tucker. Died on May 20 aged 71, five months after being diagnosed with...
- Larry King
Larry King dies aged 87: Piers Morgan, Andy Cohen and more...
- Larry King
Mar 16, 2021 · Ronald Pickup, a British actor well-known for his work in the Netflix hit "The Crown," died February 24, 2021 at age 80. " [Ronald] passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family," his agent told the BBC. "He will be deeply missed."
Jan 2, 2022 · Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding, comedian Sean Lock, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, musical great Stephen Sondheim, Big Brother star Nikki Grahame, entertainer Lionel Blair and of course Prince Philip are among the stars and famous faces who sadly died in 2021. Sunday 2 January 2022 06:38, UK.
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- Ed Asner
- Ned Beatty
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Sonny Chiba
- Olympia Dukakis
- Charles Grodin
- Hal Holbrook
- Yaphet Kotto
- Dilip Kumar
- Cloris Leachman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant star whose awards cabinet held five Golden Globes and seven Emmys. The actor worked right up to his death aged 91, with recent performances including the voice of Carl in Up and a role on Netflix show Cobra Kai.
After making his film debut in the 1970s classic Deliverance, Beatty became an in-demand character actor following roles in masterpieces like Nashville, All the President's Men and Network (which bagged him an Oscar nomination). More recently, he provided the voice for Lotso in Toy Story 3before his retirement from screen acting in 2013.
Belmondo's cigarette-smoking cool in Godard's Breathless made him iconic, with his face often representing the French New Wave as a whole. Godard also used him inA Woman is a Woman and Pierrot le Fou, and he also worked with great European directors like Jean-Pierre Melville, François Truffaut, Agnes Varda and Vittorio De Sica among many others.
A legend of martial arts cinema, the actor appeared in over 125 projects for Japan's legendary Toei studio. These credits led Hollywood directors to pay tribute to him with roles in Kill Bill and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
An Oscar winner for Moonstruck, Dukakis starred in over 130 plays across her decades-long stage career. Her film roles included Steel Magnolias, Working Girl and Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, while her 2019 reprise of the role of Anna Madrigal in Netflix's Tales of the Cityfound her a new audience.
No one played the role of the deadpan straight man better in the 1970s than Charles Grodin, as seen in roles in The Heartbreak Kid and Heaven can Wait. After retiring in the 1990s to become a writer and host, he made a return to acting in the 2000s in shows like Louis and movies like While We're Young.
Few actor can claim to have played a single character as many times as Hal Halbrook played Mark Twain, a role he played first played on stage in 1954 and continued doing so until 2017. He won a Tony for Mark Twain Tonight in 1966, won five Emmys, and received an Oscar nomination in 2008 forInto the Wild.
Across a storied career, Kotto appeared in Alien, as a James Bond villain inLive and Let Die, and proved his comedy chops in Midnight Run. These roles led to him being considered for the lead of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and while Patrick Stewart eventually got the role, Kotto had a TV success of his own with Homicide: Life on the Streets.
A Bollywood legend, Kumar was the biggest Indian movie star of the 1950s and 1960s, whose Mughal-e-Azamis the highest-grossing film in India of all time (adjusted for inflation). His five-decade career saw him named the "Tragedy King," who brought Method acting to screens before American stars like Marlon Brando.
In a career that spanned seven and a half decades, Leachman won eight Emmy awards and was nominated 22 times, making her the most-awarded and most-nominated performer in the show's history. These nominations came from performances in shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Malcolm in the Middle, and she won an Oscar for 1971's The Last Picture Sho...
Dec 31, 2021 · There were big losses from the acting world including Harry Potter and Peaky Blinders actor Helen McCrory, Sex And The City star Willie Garson, British TV royalty Una Stubbs, Friends actor James...
- Matt Bagwell
As the year draws to a close, it is time to remember figures from the worlds of arts and entertainment who died in 2021. Here is a look back at some of those we said goodbye to.
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Dec 15, 2021 · A look back at the many famous people who died this year, from DMX and Cicely Tyson to Tawny Kitaen and Norm Macdonald.
