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Walter Matthau

Actor

1920-2000

1950s through the 1990s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Oscar Madison in the Odd Couple!
He was Coach Buttermaker in The Bad News Bears!
He was Max Goldman in Grumpy Old Men!
He was Mr. Wilson in Dennis the Menace!
He was Donald Becker in The Couch Trip!
He was Hamilton Bartholomew in Charade!
In 1970 he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for The Fortune Cookie!

79 Years Old
Heart Attack

ON EAT LIFE:
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Carroll O'Connor

Actor

1924-2001

1960s through the 1990s

He was in about 90 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Archie Bunker in All in the Family!
He was Chief Gillespie in The Heat of the Night!
He was General Colt in Kelly's Heroes!

76 Years Old
Diabetes

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/carroll-oconnor.php]
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Herbert Ross

Choreographer / Director

1927-2001

1950s through the 1990s

He was involved in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He directed My Blue Heaven, Steel Magnolias, Footloose, and The Secret of My Success!

74 Years Old
Heart

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/herbert-ross.php]
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Jack Lemmon

It's Magic Time!

1925-2001

1950s through the 1990s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was the Narrator in The Legend of Bagger Vance!
He was John Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men!
He was Felix Ungar in the Odd Couple!
He was C.C. Baxter in the Apartment!
He was Jerry in Some Like It Hot!
He was Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts!
In 1956 he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for Mister Roberts!
In 1974 he won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar for Save the Tiger!

76 Years Old
Bladder Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/jack-lemmon.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Jane Greer

Actress

1924-2001

1940s through the 1980s

She was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Judith Owens in Dick Tracy!
She was married to Rudy Vallee for six months in the 40s!

76 Years Old
Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/jane-greer.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Les Brown

Les Brown and His Band of Renown

1912-2001

1940s through the 2000s

He was involved in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He did that son Sentimenal Journey with Doris Day!

88 Years Old
Lung Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/les-brown.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Billy Wilder

Writer

1906-2002

1930s through the 1980s

He wrote and did screenplays for about 80 Movies and TV Shows!
He did Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Sunset Boulevard, and Stalag 17!
In 1946 he won 2 Oscars for The Lost Weekend (Best Director, and Best Writing)!
In 1951 he won the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Oscar for Sunset Boulevard!
In 1961 he won 3 Oscars for The Apartment (Best Director, Best Writing, and Best Picture)!
In 1988 they gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Oscar!

95 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/billy-wilder.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Carrie Hamilton

Actress

1963-2002

1980s and 1990s

She was in about 20 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Reggie Higgins in the TV Show Fame!
Her mother was Carol Burnett!

38 Years Old
Lung Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/carrie-hamilton.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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James Coburn

Actor

1928-2002

1950s through the to the 2000s

He was in about 175 Movies and TV Shows!
In 1999 he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Affliction!
He was Sedgwick in The Great Escape!
He was Britt in the Magnificent Seven!

74 Years Old
Heart Attack

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/james-coburn.php]
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Jonathan Harris

Actor

1914-2002

1950s through the 1990s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space!
He was Dr. Zachary Smith in The Third Man!
He was the voice of Manny in A Bug's Life!
He was the voice of The Cleaner in Toy Story 2!

87 Years Old
Heart Attack

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/jonathan-harris.php]
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Peggy Lee

Singer / Actress

1920-2002

1940s through the 1990s

She was in about 20 Movies and TV Shows and recorded about 40 Record Albums!
She was the voice of Darling and a few others in Lady and the Tramp!
She was Judy Lane in The Jazz Singer!
In 1970 she won the Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female Grammy for Is That All There Is?
In 1995 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy!

81 Years Old
Heart Attack

ON EAT LIFE:
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Queenie Leonard

Actress

1905-2002

1930s through the 1960s

She was in about 90 Movies and TV Shows!
She was the voice of Princess the Dairy Cow in One Hundred and One Dalmatians!

96 Years Old
Natural Causes

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/queenie-leonard.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Ray Conniff

The Ray Conniff Singers

1916-2002

1950s through the 1990s

He recorded almost 100 albums!
In 1967 he won the Best Performance by a Chorus Grammy for Somewhere My Love - the theme of Dr. Zhivago!

85 Years Old
Stroke

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/ray-conniff.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Robert Stack

Actor

1919-2003

1940s through 2000s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Eliot Ness on The Untouchables TV Show!
He was Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane!
He was MacGregor in Uncommon Valor!
He was Chandler Young in Caddyshack II!
He was Dr. Ellison in Joe Verses the Volcano!
Rosemarie Stack was his wife for almost 50 years!

84 Years Old
Heart Attack

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[eatlife.net/stars/robert-stack.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Anna Lee

Actress

1913-2004

1930s through the 1980s

She was in about 125 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Lila Quartermaine in almost 500 episodes of General Hospital!
She was one of the sisters in The Sound of Music!
She was Mrs. Emily Collingwood in Fort Apache!
She was Mrs. Miles Fairley in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir!

91 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/anna-lee.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Eric Douglas

Actor

1958-2004

1970s through the 1990s

He was in about 20 Movies and TV Shows!
His father was Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas was his older half-brother!

46 Years Old
Drug Overdose

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/eric-douglas.php]
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Janet Leigh

Actress

1927-2004

1940s through the 1990s

She was in about 90 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Marion Crane in Psycho!
She was Rosie DeLeon in Bye Bye Birdie!
She was Eugenie Rose Chaney in The Manchurian Candidate
Tony Curtis was her Husband in the 50s and Jamie Lee Curtis was one of thier kids!

77 Years Old
Vasculitis

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/janet-leigh.php]
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Ray Stark

Producer

1915-2004

1960s through the 1990s

He was did about 35 Movies!
He produced a whole bunch of movies that you've heard of
- Lost in Yonkers
- Barbarians at the Gate
- Steel Magnolias
- Biloxi Blues
- The Slugger's Wife
- The Toy
- Annie
- Seems Like Old Times
- The Electric Horseman!
- In 1980 he won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Oscar!
88 Years Old
Heart
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Renata Vanni

Actress

1909-2004

1950s through the 1980s

She was in about 90 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Mama Saulino in Pay or Die!
She was Mrs. Favaloro in A Patch of Blue!

94 Years Old
Natural Causes

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/renata-vanni.php]
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Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect!

1921-2004

What a crowd! What a crowd!

He was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Al Czervik in Caddyshack!
He was Monty Capuletti in Easy Money!
He was Thornton Melon in Back to School!

82 Years Old
Heart

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Constance Moore

Actress

1921-2005

1930s through the 1960s

She was in about 50 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Constance Ford in Show Business!
She was Marilyn Whitaker in Atlantic City!

84 Years Old
Heart

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Danny Sugerman

Manager of the Doors

1954-2005

After Jim Morrison passed away

50 Years Old
Lung Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/danny-sugerman.php]
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Dorris Bowdon

Actress

1914-2005

1930s and 1940s

She was in about 7 Movies!
She was Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath!
She was married to Nunnally Johnson and quit acting once she had a child!

90 Years Old
Stroke

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/dorris-bowdon.php]
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Eddie Albert

Actor

1906-2005

1930s through the 1999s

He was in over 200 Movies and TV Shows!
He was in in the first television film made by RCA and NBC to demonstrate transmission in 1936! He wrote and starred in it.
He was Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres!
He was Jason in Escape to Witch Mountain!

99 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
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Ernest Lehman

Writer

1915-2005

1950s through 1990s

He did about 30 Movies and TV Shows!
He wrote North by Northwest!
He did the screenplay for West Side Story, Sabrina, the Sound of Music, Hello Dolly, The King and I!
In the early 80s he was president of the Writers Guild of America!
In 2001 he was given an Honorary Oscar in appreciation of a body of varied and enduring work!

89 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/ernest-lehman.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Guy Green

Director / Cinematographer

1913-2005

1950s through the 1980s

He was involved in about 25 Movies and TV Shows!
In 1948 he won the Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Oscar for Great Expectations!

91 Years Old
Heart

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/guy-green.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Marc Lawrence

Actor

1909-2005

1930s through the 1990s

He was in about 225 Movies and TV Shows!

95 Years Old
Natural Causes

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/marc-lawrence.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Don Knotts

Actor

1924-2006

1950s through 2000s

He was in about 85 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Mr. Fuley in Three's Company!
He was Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show!
He was Henry Limpet in The Incredible Mr. Limpet!
He was Wilbur Peterson in Search for Tomorrow!

81 Years Old
Lung Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/don-knotts.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Eileen Barton

Singer

1924-2006

1950s through the 1960s

She sang that 1950s song If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake!

Her hit song: If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1wEVPqFFCg]

81 Years Old
Ovarian Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/eileen-barton.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Osa Massen

Actress

1914-2006

1940s through the 1950s

She was in about 40 Movies and TV Shows!

91 Years Old

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/osa-massen.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Paul Gleason

Actor

1939-2006

1960s through the 2000s

He was in about 150 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Principle Richard Vernon in The Breakfast Club!
He was Clarence Beeks in Trading Places!
He was the Deputy Chief of Police, Dwayne T. Robinson in Die Hard!
He was Professor McDoogle in Van Wilder

67 Years Old
Mesothelioma Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/paul-gleason.php]
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James Blakeley

Editor

1910-2007

1960s and 1970s

He was the post-production supervisor for almost 100 episodes of Batman!
He was editorial supervisor for almost 100 episodes of Lassie!
He was married to Mary Carlisle!

96 Years Old
Heart

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/james-blakeley.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Merv Griffin

Writer / Producer

1925-2007

1950s through the 1990s

He was involved in about 25 Movies and TV Shows!
He created Jeopardy!
He created Wheel of Fortune!
He hosted the Merv Griffin Show for 25 years!

82 Years Old
Prostate Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/merv-griffin.php]
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Sidney Sheldon

Writer

1917-2007

1940s through the 2000s

He was involved in about 60 Movies and TV Shows!
He created the TV Show I Dream of Jeannie!
He wrote for the Patty Duke Show!
He created the TV Show Jeannie Aur Juju!
In 1948 he won the Best Writing, Original Screenplay Oscar for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer!

89 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/sidney-sheldon.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Sigrid Valdis

Actress

1935-2007

1960s

She was in less than 10 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Secretary Hilda on Hogan's Heroes!
She was married to Bob Crane!

72 Years Old
Lung Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[eatlife.net/vips/sigrid-valdis.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Allan Melvin

Actor

1923-2008

1950s through the 1990s

He was in about 100 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Sam the Butcher on the Brady Bunch!
He was Sergent Charlie Hacker on Gomer Pyle: USMC!
He was Barney Hefner on All in the Family!
He was Corporal Steve Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show!
He did lots of cartoon voices too!

84 Years Old
Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/allan-melvin.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Bettie Page

The Queen of Pinups

1923-2008

1950s

She was Playboy Magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 1955!

85 Years Old
Pneumonia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/bettie-page.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Bruce Lester

Actor

1912-2008

1930s through the 1950s

He was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice!

96 Years Old

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/bruce-lester.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[google.com/maps/ ... 34.058122,-118.440635]

Brenda Joyce

Actress

1917-2009

1940s

She was in about 25 Movies!
She was Jane in several Tarzan movies!

92 Years Old
Dementia

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/brenda-joyce.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Farrah Fawcett

Actress

1947-2009

1970s through the 2000s

She was in about 65 Movies and TV Shows!
She was Jill Munroe on Charlie's Angels!
She was Pamela in the Cannonball Run!

62 Years Old
Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/farrah-fawcett.php]
ON GOOGLE MAPS:
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Karl Malden

Actor

1912-2009

1940s through the 1990s

He was in about 75 Movies and TV Shows!
He was Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire!
He was Father Barry in On the Waterfront!
He was Herb Brooks in the TV Movie Miracle on Ice!
He was Detective Lt. Mike Stone in the TV Show The Streets of San Francisco!
He was Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll!
In 1952 he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire!

97 Years Old
Natural Causes