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Dorothy Stratten

Actress

1960-1980

1970s and 1980s

She was in about a half a dozen Movies and TV Shows!
She was the Playboy Playmate of the month in August 1979!

21 Years Old
Murder by Gunshot

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Lewis Milestone

Director

1895-1980

1920s through the 1960s

He directed about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He directed Ocean's Eleven!
He was a director on Mutiny on the Bounty!
He directed Pork Chop Hill!
He directed Of Mice and Men!
In 1929 he won the Best Director, Comedy Picture Oscar for Two Arabian Knights!
In 1930 he won the Best Director Oscar for All Quiet on the Western Front!

84 Years Old
Stroke

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Miliza Korjus

The Berlin Nightingale

1909-1980

1930s

She was an Opera singer in Germany. MGM signed her to a film contract. Her first film she was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for The Great Waltz. But then she was in a car accident that messed up her leg real bad. When her leg healed World War II started.

71 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Harry Warren

Composer

1893-1981

1920s through the 1980s

He wrote something like 500 songs that were in hundreds of Movies and TV Shows!
He wrote I Only Have Eyes for You, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, That's Amore, and Jeepers Creepers!
He won three Best Music, Original Song Oscars!

87 Years Old

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Natalie Wood

Actress

1938-1981

1940s through to 1980

She was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
She was the little girl Susan in Miracle on 34th Street!
She was Judy in Rebel Without a Cause!
She was Maria in West Side Story!
She was Maggie Dubois in The Great Race!
She was Margaret in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!
She was married to Robert Wagner!

43 Years Old
Drowned? Unsolved

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Will Durant

Writer

1885-1981

He and his wife Ariel wrote The Story of Civilization over 40 years

In 1968 they won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the 10th volume called Rousseau and Revolution!
In 1977 they were each awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford!

96 Years Old

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Dolores Moran

Actress

1926-1982

1940s and 1950s

She was in about 20 Movies and TV Shows!
She was married to producer Benedict Bogeaus!
She was a pin-up girl in the 40s!

56 Years Old
Cancer

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Dominique Dunne

Actress

1959-1982

1980s

She was in about a dozen Movies and TV Shows!
She was the oldest daughter Dana Freeling in Poltergeist!

22 Years Old
Strangled

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Helmut Dantine

Actor

1918-1982

1940s through the 1970s

He was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Joe Brandel in Casablanca (the newlywed gambler)!
He was Peter House in Shadow of the Cloak TV Show!

63 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Virginia Fox

Actress

1902-1982

1920s

She was in about 30 Silent Films and Shorts!
She was married to Twentieth Century Fox founder Darryl F. Zanuck!

76 Years Old
Emphysema

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Christopher George

Actor

1931-1983

1960s through the 1980s

H was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Sergent Sam Troy in The Rat Patrol!
He was Dan Nodeen in Chisum!
He was Nelse McLeod in El Dorado!

52 Years Old
Heart Attack

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John Vivyan

Actor

1915-1983

1950s through the 1980s

He was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Mr. Lucky on the TV Show Mr. Lucky!

68 Years Old
Heart

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Brooks West

Actor

1916-1984

1950s

He was only in a few Movies and TV Shows
He was District Attorney Mitch Lodwick in Anatomy of a Murder!
Eve Arden was his wife and he was her manager

67 Years Old
Heart

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Edith Massey

The Egg Lady

1918-1984

1970s and 1980s

She was in a handful of John Waters Movies!

66 Years Old

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Richard Basehart

Actor

1914-1984

1940s through 1980s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Admiral Harriman Nelson in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!
He was Ishmael in Moby Dick!
He was the narrator on Knight Rider!

70 Years Old
Stroke

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Sam Jaffe

Actor

1891-1984

1930s through the 1980s

He was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Simonides in Ben-Hur!
He was Doc Erwin Riedenschneid in The Asphalt Jungle!
He was Prof. Fred Lieberman in Gentleman's Agreement!

98 Years Old
Cancer

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Truman Capote

Writer

1924-1984

1950s through the 1970s

He wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's!

59 Years Old
Liver

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William C. Thomas

Producer

1903-1984

1930s through the 1950s

He did about 90 Movies!
He co-produced Captain China!
He co-produced They Made Me a Killer!

80 Years Old

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Eugene B. Rodney

Producer

1898-1985

1950s and 1960s

He produced the TV Show Father Knows Best!

87 Years Old

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Harold Hecht

Producer

1907-1985

1950s through the 1960s

He produced about 25 Movies!
He produced Best Picture Academy Award winner Marty!
He did a lot of work with Burt Lancaster!

77 Years Old
Cancer

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Lloyd Nolan

Actor

1902-1985

1930s through the 1980s

He was in about 160 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Dr. Chegley in the TV Show Julia!
He was Harry Standish in Airport!
He was Dr. Vance in Earthquake!

83 Years Old
Lung Cancer

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Marvin Miller

Actor

1913-1985

1940s through the 1980s

He was in about 175 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Michael Anthony on the TV Show The Millionaire!
He did a lot of voice work!
In 1966 he won the Best Recording for Children Grammy for "Dr. Seuss Presents Fox In Sox and Green Eggs and Ham!
In 1967 he won the Best Recording for Children Grammy for Dr. Seuss Presents - If I Ran The Zoo and Sleep Book!

71 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Phil Karlson

Director

1908-1985

1940s through 1970s

He was involved in about 60 Movies and TV Shows!
He directed Walking Tall!

77 Years Old
Cancer

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Beatrice Kay

Singer / Actress

1907-1986

1950s through the 1970s

She was in about 20 Movies and TV Shows!
She was the voice of Susan Culpepper in the TV Show Calvin and the Colonel!!

79 Years Old

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Donna Reed

Actress

1921-1986

1940s through the 1980s

She was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Mary Hatch in It's a Wonderful Life!
She hosted the Donna Reed Show in the 60s!
She was Miss Ellie Ewing in the TV Show Dallas!
In 1954 she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for From Here to Eternity!

64 Years Old
Pancreatic Cancer

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Helen Mack

Actress

1913-1986

1920s through the 1940s

She was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Mollie Malloy in His Girl Friday!
She was Hilda in the Son of Kong!

72 Years Old
Cancer

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Buddy Rich

Jazz Drummer

1917-1987

1930s through the 1980s

He made about 50 Record Albums!

69 Years Old
Brain Tumor

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Dorothy Patrick

Actressl

1921-1987

1940s and 1950s

She was in about 70 Movies and TV Shows!

65 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Kent Taylor

Actor

1906-1987

1930s through the 1970s

He was in about 150 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Captain Jim Flagg in the TV Show The Rough Riders!
He was Corrado in Death Takes a Holiday!

80 Years Old
Heart

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Heather O'Rourke

Child Actress

1975-1988

1980s

She was in about 15 Movies and TV Shows!
She was the kid Carol Anne in Poltergeist!

12 Years Old
Crohn's Disease

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Roy Orbison

The Caruso of Rock

1936-1988

1960s through the 1980s

He made about 25 Record Albums!
He sang Only the Lonely!
He sang Crying!
He sang Oh, Pretty Woman!
In 1989 he and KD Lang won the Best Country Vocal Collaboration Grammy for Crying!
In 1991 he won the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Grammy for Oh Pretty Woman!
In 1998 they gave him a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award!

52 Years Old
Heart Attack