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Roger Edens

Composer / Producer

1905-1970

1930s through the 1960s

He was involved in over 50 Movies!
He did music for Easter Parade, A Star is Born, Annie Get Your Gun, and Meet Me In St. Louis!
He was an Associate Producer for Hello Dolly!, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singin' in the Rain, and Show Boat!
In 1949, 1950, and 1950 he won Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Oscars!

64 Years Old
Cancer

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Steve Darrell

Actor

1904-1970

1940s through the 1960s

He was in over 150 Movies and TV Shows!

65 Years Old
Brain Tumor

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Jay C. Flippen

Actor

1899-1971

1930s through the 1970s

He was in over 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Skidmore in Oklahoma!
He was Chief Petty Officer Homer Nelson in the TV Series Ensign O'Toole!

71 Years Old
Heart Aneurysm

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Percy Helton

Actor

1894-1971

1910s through the 1970s

He was in about 250 Movies and TV Shows!
He was the Drunk Santa Claus in the 1947 Miracle on 34th Street!
He was Sweetface in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!

77 Years Old
Natural Causes

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Renie Riano

Actress

1899-1971

1930s through the 1960s

She was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Effie Schneider in Nancy Drew: Detective!

71 Years Old

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Helen Traubel

Opera Singer

1899-1972

1930s through the 1950s

73 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Oscar Levant

Composer

1906-1972

1930s through the 1950s

He did about 25 Movies and made about 35 Record Albums!
He was a Concert Pianist!
He hosted the Oscar Levant Show at the end of the 50s!
Actress June Gale was his wife!

65 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Steve Ihnat

Actor

1934-1972

1950s through the 1970s

He was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!!

37 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Cecil Kellaway

Actor

1890-1973

1930s through the 1970s

He was in about 150 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Monsignor Ryan in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!
He was Horace in The Luck of the Irish!
He was Mr. Stebbins in Gunga Din!

82 Years Old
Arteriosclerosis

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Coleman Francis

Actor / Director

1919-1973

1950s through to 1970

He was in about 40 Movies and TV Shows!
He wrote and directed and acted in Red Zone Cuba!
He wrote and directed The Beast of Yucca Flats, and the Skydivers!

53 Years Old
Arteriosclerosis

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Norma Crane

Actress

1928-1973

1950s through the 1970s

She was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
She was the milkman's wife Golde in Fiddler on the Roof!

44 Years Old
Breast Cancer

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Robert Armstrong

Actor

1890-1973

1920s through the 1960s

He was in almost 200 Movies and TV Shows!
He played Carl Denham in King Kong!!

82 Years Old
Cancer

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Philip Dorn

Actor

1901-1975

1930s through the 1950s

He was in about 35 Movies and TV Shows!

73 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Richard Conte

Actor

1910-1975

1940s through the 1970s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Don Barzini in the Godfather!

65 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Gregor Piatigorsky

Composer / Cellist

1903-1976

1940s through the 1960s

In 1962, 1963, and 1965 he won Best Chamber Performance Grammy Awards

73 Years Old

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James Wong Howe

Cinematographer

1899-1976

1920s through the 1960s

He did almost 150 Movies and TV Shows!
In the 30s he was the most famouse cameraman in the world!
In 1964 he won the Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Oscar for Hud!
In 1956 he won the Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Oscar for The Rose Tattoo!

76 Years Old
Cancer

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Ruth McDevitt

Actress

1895-1976

1950s through the 1970s

She was in about Movies and TV Shows!
She was Mrs. MacGruder in The Birds!
She was Grandma Effie Hanks in the TV Show Pistols n Petticoats!

80 Years Old
Natural Causes

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Nunnally Johnson

Writer / Producer

1897-1977

1930s through the 1980s

He did about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
In the 50s he was the highest paid writer in Hollywood!
He did the Screenplay for The Dirty Dozen!
He directed The Three Faces of Eve which won an Oscar!
He was a writer on The Grapes of Wrath!
He was a writer on How to Marry a Millionaire!

79 Years Old
Pneumonia

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Sebastian Cabot

Actor

1918-1977

1930s through 1970s

He was in over 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Mr. Giles French on Family Affair!
He was the voice of Bagheera the Panther on The Jungle Book!
He was the narrator in Winnie the Pooh!

59 Years Old
Stroke

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Adrienne Marden

Actress

1909-1978

1930s through the 1970s

She was in about 135 Movies and TV Shows!

69 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Bob Crane

Actor / Radio

1928-1978

1960s through 1970s

He was in about 30 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Colonel Robert Hogan in Hogan's Heroes!
He was Dr. Dave Kelsey on the Donna Reed Show!
In the 1950s he had the number one morning radio show in Los Angeles!

49 Years Old
Unsolved Murder

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Ruth Rose

Writer

1896-1978

1930s and 1940s

She was involved in about a dozen Movies and TV Shows!
She did the screenplay for King Kong!
She did the screenplay for The Last Days of Pompeii!
She did the screenplay for Mighty Joe Young!
She was married to Ernest B. Schoedsack!

82 Years Old

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Clarence Sinclair Bull

Photographer

1896-1979

1920s through the 1960s

He did the portriats for MGM and ran their Photography Department!

83 Years Old

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer / Writer / Studio Executive

1902-1979

1920s through the 1960s

He was involved with about 250 Movies and TV Shows!
He produced The Grapes of Wrath!
He was a director on The Longest Day!
He was executive producer of Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the 30s he co-founded 20th Century Fox and ran it for twenty years!
In 1951 he won the Best Picture Oscar for All About Eve!
He won the In Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Oscar in 1938, 1945, and 1951!

77 Years Old
Pneumonia

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Ernest Schoedsack

Director / Cinematographer

1893-1979

1910s through the 1940s

He was involved in about 20 Movies and TV Shows!
He directed King Kong!
He directed Mighty Joe Young!
He directed The Last Days of Pompeii!

86 Years Old

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Jim Hutton

Actor

1934-1979

1950s through the 1970s

He was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Sergent Petersen in The Green Berets!

45 Years Old
Liver

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Milton Ager

Composer / Song Writer

1893-1979

1930s

His music is in almost 350 Movies and TV Shows!
He did that song Happy Days Are Here Again!
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972!

85 Years Old

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Minnie Riperton

Singer

1947-1979

1970s

She made a half a dozen Record Albums!
She did that song Lovin' You!

31 Years Old
Breast Cancer

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Philip Bourneuf

Actor

1908-1979

1940s through the 1970s

He was in almost 90 Movies and TV Shows!

71 Years Old
Natural Causes

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Shirley Mason

Actress

1900-1979

1910s and 1920s

She was in about 100 Movies!
Her sister was Viola Dana!

79 Years Old
Cancer

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Stan Kenton

Jazz Musician

1911-1979

1930s through the 1970s

He made over 50 Record Albums!
He did the theme music for the TV Show Mister Roberts!
In 1962 he won the Best Jazz Performance - Large Group (Instrumental) Grammy for West Side Story!
In 1963 he won the Best Jazz Performance - Large Group (Instrumental) Grammy for Adventures In Jazz!

67 Years Old
Stroke