In Memoriam: Celebrities

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Haruo Nakajima
Actor
Haruo Nakajima was a Japanese actor, best known for portraying Godzilla in twelve consecutive films, from Godzilla to Godzilla vs. Gigan. He played various other giant monsters in kaiju films, including Mothra and The War of the Gargantuas, and also appeared in a minor role in the Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

 

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Jerry Lewis
American Actor
Jerry Lewis was an American actor, comedian, singer, film producer, film director, screenwriter and humanitarian. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He and Dean Martin were partners as the hit popular comedy duo of Martin and Lewis. Following that success, he was a solo star in motion pictures, nightclubs, television shows, concerts, album recordings and musicals.

 

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Jay Thomas
American Actor
Jon Thomas Terrell, professionally known as Jay Thomas, was an American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host in New York in the mid-1970s on 99X. His notable television work included his co-starring role as Remo DaVinci on Mork & Mindy, the recurring role of Eddie LeBec on Cheers, the lead character Jack Stein on Love & War, and a repeat guest role as Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for portraying Gold.

 

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The founder of American band "Steely Dan" Walter Becker has died from undisclosed causes at the age of 67 (Walter Becker: A true artist).

 

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Len Wein
Writer
Leonard Norman Wein was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen.

 

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Harry Dean Stanton
American Actor
Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton's career spanned more than sixty years, during which he appeared in the films Cool Hand Luke, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Escape from New York, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Pretty in Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story, The Green Mile, Alpha Dog, Inland Empire, Lucky and others.

 

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Jake LaMotta
Professional Boxer
Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta was an American professional boxer, former World Middleweight Champion, and stand-up comedian. Nicknamed "The Raging Bull", LaMotta was a rough fighter, who although not particularly a big puncher, would subject his opponents to vicious beatings in the ring. With use of constant stalking, brawling and inside fighting, he developed the reputation for being a 'bully', and is often referred to today as a swarmer and a slugger

 

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US producer and publisher Hugh Hefner (the man behind Playboy magazine) has died at the age of 91 (Vale: Hugh Hefner).

 

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Monty Hall
Singer
Monte Halparin, OC OM, widely known by his stage name Monty Hall, was a Canadian-American game show host, producer and philanthropist, and widely known as the long-running host of Let's Make a Deal and for the Monty Hall problem.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

Tom petty just died today.
May the great wide open be forever free fallin in our hearts

 

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Tom petty just died today.
May the great wide open be forever free fallin in our hearts

He's apparently still clinging to life, but according to various sources, it doesn't look good.

 

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Actually, there are reports that Tom Petty had died (Tom Petty, 66, dies of heart attack), but TMZ is reporting that he has not passed away, but is not expected to live throughout today (Tom Petty Reportedly Clinging to Life After Heart Attack).

EDIT: Tom Petty has died (Vale: Tom Petty).

 

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The comedian Ralphie May died.

 

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Y. A. Tittle
American Football Player

Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., better known as Y.A. Tittle, is a former professional American football quarterback. He played in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Colts, after spending two seasons with the Colts in the All-America Football Conference. Known for his competitiveness, leadership, and striking profile, Tittle was the centerpiece of several prolific offenses throughout his seventeen-year professional career from 1948 to 1964.

 

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Robert Guillaume, the actor who was the original voice for Rafiki in The Lion King, passed away from prostate cancer today. He was 89.

 

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Robert Guillaume, the actor who was the original voice for Rafiki in The Lion King, passed away from prostate cancer today. He was 89.

Robert Guillaume
Actor
Robert Guillaume was an American stage and television actor, known for his role as Benson on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night. In a career that spanned more than 50 years he worked extensively on stage, television, and film.

 

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Fats Domino
Pianist
Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. was an American pianist and singer-songwriter of French Creole descent. Five of his records released before 1955 sold over a million copies and were certified as gold records, and he had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40. His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums.

 

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A couple of deaths over the past few days. Firstly, John Hillerman, best known from Magnum PI has died aged 84 (Vale: John Hillerman). Also, chef Antonio Carluccio, best known from Two Greedy Italians and Antonio Carluccio's Italian Feasts has died aged 80 (Vale: Antonio Carluccio). And lastly, Dudley Simpson, best known for doing the scores for Doctor Who has died aged 95 (Vale: Dudley Simpson).

 

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John Hillerman
American Actor
John Benedict Hillerman was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television show Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999

 

[Blockhead Pippi]

Today, on November 16th, voice actress Hiromi Tsuru sadly passed away. She was notably the long-time voice actress of Bulma from the Dragon Ball franchise, having voiced the character since 1986.

This is truly sad. My condolences to her family and friends.