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| Albert Salmi | Inger Stevens | Robert Stack |
| .Actor who played in a score of films and TV shows, mainly as bad guys in westerns, shot and killed his wife and committed suicide in Spokane, Washington on 25 April 1990...He was 62..He appeared in the films-"Caddyshack" and "Bang The Drum Slowly".. | .Actress who starred
opposite actor, Clint Eastwood in the film-"Hang
'em High", committed suicide by taking a overdose of
barbiturates on 30 April 1970...She died en route to the hospital ....She
had suffered from depression most of her life.. On New Years Eve, 1959,
shortly after a stormy affair with Bing Crosby, she had swallowed sleeping
pills and ammonia.. Although blind for two weeks, she made a full
recovery...
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Tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables" 1959-63 and former host of TV's "Unsolved Mysteries", died in Los Angeles on 15 May 2003...Aside from his role as the real life gangster-fighter, Elliott Ness, he appeared in over 40 films...He was born in Los Angeles. |
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| Frank Sutton | Barbara Stanwyck | Rod Steiger |
| Was known throughout television land as the short, always screaming, marine Sergeant Vince Carter on the ever popular series-"Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C" died in Shreveport, Louisiana on 28 June 1974 of a heart attack at the age of 51...He was born on 23 Oct. 1922 in Clarksville, Tenn... | Star of the 1960s western series-"The Big Valley" as the matriarch died 20 Jan. 1990 at the age of 82...Aside from her noted role as Victoria Barkley on the popular western series, she often appeared in Gangster movies of the 1930s and 1940s...One of her best films was-"Double Indemnity".. | The Oscar-winning actor for his role in the explosive 1967 film-"In The Heat Of The Night", died in Los Angeles on 9 July 2002 of kidney failure at the age of 77...Others of his most memorable films was-"The Pawn-Broker", "On The Waterfront", "Run Of The Arrow", "The Specialist"..... |
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| Mc Lean Stevenson | Ann Sothern | John Smith |
| Known to " M*A*S*H" fans around the world as the bumbling Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, died in Los Angeles on 16 Feb. 1996 of a heart attack at age of 66...His other TV series were-"Hello Larry", "Condo", "In The Beginning"... | Blond star who starred in the 1950s TV series-"Private Secretary", died in Ketchum, Idaho on 16 March 2001 of heart failure at the age of 92...Born Harriette Lake on 22 Jan. 1909 in Valley City, North Dakota, she appeared in more than 64 films and over 175 TV episodes... | Star of TV's western series-"Laramie" died in Los Angeles on 25 Jan. 1995 of heart problems and cirrhosis at the age of 63...He played in several movies ..His real name was Robert Earl Van Orden.... |
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| Randolph Scott | Dinah Shore | Red Skelton |
| Hero of dozens of Hollywood westerns, war movies, and comedies, died in Los Angeles on 2 March 1987 of heart problems and pneumonia at the age of 89..He starred in a score of films.. His career took off when he was in his fifties after most actors his age were winding down their careers.. | Pioneer of television's Golden Age, died in Beverly Hills, Calif. on 24 Feb. 1994 of cancer at the age of 76...She won (8) Emmys for her television work...Aside from her television work, she wrote three best-selling cookbooks..."The Dinah Shore Show" ran from 1951-1957.. | The comic known for giggling at his own jokes during his TV variety show, "The Red Skelton Hour" which ran on CBS from 1953-1970 died in Palm Springs, California on 17 Sept. 1997 at the age of 84 after a long illness.. |
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