Notable deaths last week

• Frank Torre, the World Series star who helped put little brother Joe on a path that led to the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 82.

Torre played seven seasons in the majors with the Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies. Though he hit only 13 home runs in 1,482 career at-bats in the regular season, he homered twice in 10 at-bats during the 1957 World Series as Milwaukee beat the New York Yankees for its only championship. In Game 7, he drove in a run at Yankee Stadium during the clinching 5-0 victory.

Frank Torre was nearly nine years older than Joe and guided his signing with the Braves and was long his mentor.

In 2007, Frank Torre had a kidney transplant, and the donor was his daughter.

Torre was with the Braves as they reached the World Series in 1957 and again the next year. In 1958, they lost in seven games to the Yankees.

Torre signed with the Boston Braves and played in their minor league system in 1951 before serving two years in the military. He hit .273 in 714 games in the majors.

The Braves sent him to the minors during the 1960 season. He barely missed playing with his brother when the team brought Joe to the big leagues later that year.

After finishing as a player, Torre worked for the Rawlings sports goods company. He later became an executive with the Baseball Assistance Team, which helps those who have been in the game and their families in need.

Commissioner Bud Selig grew up in Milwaukee rooting for the Braves.

“I am deeply saddened by the loss of Frank Torre, a close friend for nearly 60 years and a man who marked the start of a great baseball family,” Selig said in a statement. “Before my career in baseball began, Frank and I formed a friendship that endured for decades, and I was touched to speak with him yesterday.

“Some of the fondest memories of my life involve Frank's Milwaukee Braves teams from 1956-1960, and his great play in the 1957 Fall Classic was one of the keys to bringing the World Series championship to my hometown,” he said. “Frank's longtime support of the Baseball Assistance Team ... was an illustration of how much he cared about our game and the people who are a part of it.”

Selig called Joe Torre, who was visiting his brother in the hospital, on Friday. Frank took the phone to talk with his longtime friend and fan.

“Frank and I grew up together in Brooklyn and I always looked up to him as a baseball player and thereafter how he conducted himself as a person,” New York Mets chairman Fred Wilpon said.

• Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. He was 74.

The 7-foot-2-inch performer famously played the cable-chomping henchman who tussled with Roger Moore's Bond in 1977's “The Spy Who Loved Me” and 1979's “Moonraker.” Bond quipped of the silent baddie: “His name's Jaws. He kills people.”

Despite appearing in several other films and TV shows, such as “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and “The Longest Yard,” the role of Jaws was an iconic one Kiel could never escape.

“To this day, I go out in sunglasses and a hat because people will shout 'Hey, Jaws!' at me from across the street,” he told the Daily Mail earlier this year. “The only way I can explain it is that he's like the Road Runner, which Coyote keeps trying to blow up, but he keeps going.”

Kiel's other memorable roles included bullying golf spectator Mr. Larson in “Happy Gilmore,” lethal Dr. Loveless's assistant Voltaire in “The Wild, Wild West” and extraterrestrial Kanamit in “The Twilight Zone.” He also reprised the character of Jaws for several James Bond video games and voiced the thug Vlad in the animated Disney film “Tangled.”

Born in Detroit, Kiel began appearing in TV shows and films in the 1960s, debuting in an episode of the Western series “Laramie.” He published an autobiography in 2002 titled “Making It Big in the Movies.”

• Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died at age 75.

The Crusaders became a successful crossover act with such hits as the 1979 single and album “Street Life.”

His songs were also sampled by hip-hop artists, including Tupac Shakur, who used Sample's “In All My Wildest Dreams” on his “Dear Mama.”

• The Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years, has died in Belfast. He was 88.

Paisley's blistering oratory in sermons and street protests was blamed for fueling four decades of bloodshed that claimed 3,700 lives.

Yet at the zenith of his peace-wrecking powers, Paisley in 2007 stunned the world by delivering the province's first stable unity government between its British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority. “Dr. No” finally said yes — and his powerful U-turn cemented a peace process that he had done so much to frustrate.

“Ian was a man of deep convictions. The convictions never changed. But his appreciation of the possibilities of peace, gradually and with much soul-searching, did,” said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Paisley founded his own church and party to promote his strident views. His Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster labeled the pope as the Antichrist and lambasted mainstream Protestants as ecumenical Judases. His Democratic Unionist Party insisted that Northern Ireland's union with Britain could tolerate no concessions to Irish nationalists.

• Chick-fil-A founder and billionaire S. Truett Cathy rose from poverty, building a privately held restaurant chain that famously closes every Sunday but drew unwanted attention for the Cathy family's opposition to gay marriage.

Cathy has died at 93.

He opened his first postwar diner in an Atlanta suburb in 1946 and by 1967 he had founded and opened his first Chick-fil-A Inc. restaurant in Atlanta. Over ensuing decades, the chain's boneless chicken sandwich he is credited with inventing would propel Chick-fil-A expansion to more than 1,800 outlets in 39 states and the nation's capital. By early 2013, the company says on its website, annual sales topped $5 billion as the chain offered up a taste of the South that went beyond chicken to such offerings as sweet tea, biscuits and gravy.

The family-owned company has said it has had 46 consecutive years of positive sales growth. Cathy's $6 billion fortune put him on the yearly Forbes magazine list of the wealthiest Americans in the country. The company listed him on its website as its chairman emeritus after he left day-to-day operations to younger generations.

• Actress Nicole Kidman's father, psychologist Tony Kidman, has died in Singapore, authorities said. He was in his 80s.

• British actor Donald Sinden, known for his rich voice and varied roles, died at his home in Kent, southern England, of prostate cancer, his son said. He was 90.

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Cosimo Matassa, who recorded New Orleans rock and rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the 1970s, has died. He was 88.

The musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, two years after the organization named his original J&M studio — now a Laundromat but with “J&M Music Shop” still on the threshold — as its 11th historic American rock and roll landmark.

• Spanish banking magnate Emilio Botin, who built the country's Banco Santander into a global financial giant and was widely seen as the nation's most influential business leader, has died.

of a heart attack, the company said Wednesday. He was 79.

• Graham Joyce, one of Britain's best known fantasy writers, has died from complications of lymphoma cancer, an illness he had blogged about extensively. He was 59.

Several of his novels received the British Fantasy Award, including “Indigo,” “The Tooth Fairy” and “Some Kind of Fairy Tale,” which won last year. He also won an O. Henry Prize for short fiction and the World Fantasy Award for “The Facts of Life.”

• Bob Suter, a member of the “Miracle On Ice” team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1980 and the father of Minnesota Wild star Ryan Suter, has died at the age of 57.

Suter died suddenly in his hometown of Madison, Wis., and is the first player from the famed 1980 Olympic men's hockey team that upset the Soviet Union and beat Finland for the gold medal to pass away. Suter did scouting work for the Wild and was a pillar of the youth hockey community.