Obituaries
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'Perry Mason' actress Barbara Hale dies at 94
Jan 29, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Barbara Hale, a movie actress who found her most famous role on television as steadfast secretary Della Street in the long-running "Perry Mason" serie...
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Academy-award winning sound engineer and film professor dies
Jan 29, 2017 6:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Richard Portman, a veteran sound engineer who won an Academy Award for his work on "The Deer Hunter" and later became a film school professor, h...
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Oscar-nominated Emmanuelle Riva dies in Paris, age 89
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Emmanuelle Riva, a French star of screen and stage who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2013, has died. She was 89. Riva died Friday a...
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Pearl Harbor Navy salvage diver dies at 103
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He...
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Pearl Harbor Navy salvage diver dies at 103
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He...
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'A truly magnificent talent:' actor John Hurt dies at 77
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - As a self-described "old drunk," the actor John Hurt nonetheless had a half-century career highlighted with memorable performances, two Oscar nominations, ...
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John Hurt, Oscar nominated for "The Elephant Man" dies at 77
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in...
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Ex-NC State basketball star Charles Shackleford found dead
Jan 27, 2017 6:00 am - KINSTON, N.C. (AP) - Charles Shackleford, a North Carolina State basketball star in the 1980s who spent six seasons in the NBA, was found dead in his home Friday. He was...
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Pioneering TV actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80
Jan 26, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mary Tyler Moore didn't have it all on her 1970s sitcom, but what she had was enough. A husband and kids, long the stock TV recipe for female contentm...
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'Mannix' star Mike Connors dies at 91
Jan 26, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mike Connors, who starred as a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running television series "Mannix," has died. He was 91. The actor died surrounded...