Film idol Howard Keel dies
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In recent years the American became a regular figure in the north west with his immensely popular Howard Keel Golf Classic, played every year at Mere Golf Club in Cheshire.
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Actor Glyn Owen, who was best known for his role as Jack Rolfe in Howard's Way, dies after a short illness.
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Frankie Laine, who had a string of hit songs in the 1950s, dies in California at age 93
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Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas," died Sunday. He was 85.
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Russ Meyer, the blue-movie maverick whose lusty images inspired a host of filmmakers and musicians, died Saturday at his home of complications of pneumonia, according to The Associated Press.
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Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her role in classic thriller Psycho, dies at the age of 77.
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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif.
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The American singer Frankie Laine, who sang the theme to the TV show Rawhide, dies, aged 93.
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PORTSMOUTH, NH - Betty Hill, whose tale of being abducted by aliens launched her to fame and became the subject of a bestselling book and television movie, has died.
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Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday. He was 68.
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Singer Laura Branigan, who enjoyed enormous popularity in the early &#39;80s, died on Thursday in her home in East Quogue, New York.
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Actress Betty Hutton, the exuberant blonde who starred as sharpshooter Annie Oakley in the 1950 film musical "Annie Get Your Gun," has died at age 86, her former studio, Paramount Pictures, said on Tuesday.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans  saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at 89.
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aura Branigan, a singer whose high-volume vocals in the disco song &quot;Gloria&quot; propelled her into pop stardom, died in her sleep on Thursday night at her home in East Quogue, NY She was 47.