Actor Jerry Orbach dies of cancer at 69
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NEW YORK Actor Jerry Orbach, who spent part of his childhood in Illinois, has died of prostate cancer at age 69. Orbach played the sardonic cop Lennie Briscoe on TV&#39;s &quot;Law and Order.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking cancer researcher whose work cured the disease in mice and gave hope for a cure in humans, has died
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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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, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Robert Altman, the acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville and Gosford Park, dies in a Los Angeles hospital.
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"Law &amp; Order" star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at age 69, a representative of the show said. Orbach announced last month he had been diagnosed with the disease.
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Johnny Oates, a former Major League Baseball player and manager, died here early Friday of brain cancer. He was 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor in October of 2001 and told he had only four months to live if he decided not to have surgery.
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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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Howard Keel, musical and television star died Sunday at his home in Palm Desert, California, from colon cancer, he was 85. Born Harold Clifford Leek, the tall and muscular baritone starred in several major
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Jerry Orbach, who earned plaudits for his versatility as a Broadway actor-singer in musicals and dramas but who achieved his most lasting fame in 12 seasons as Lennie Briscoe, the shrewd, wise
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LOS ANGELES -- Harold Benjamin, who established a national network of support centers for cancer patients after his wife developed breast cancer, has died.
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Production on Law &amp; Order: Trial By Jury will continue despite the recent death of the series&#39; star, Jerry Orbach. &quot;While Jerry is irreplaceable, Law &amp; Order: Trial by Jury is an ensemble and will continue
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Jerry Orbach, a long running star on the television series âLaw and Order,â died from prostate cancer on Wednesday, November 30.
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Robert Altman, a five-time Academy Award nominee for best director whose vast, eclectic filmography ranged from the dark war comedy "M-A-S-H" to the Hollywood farce "The Player" to the British murder mystery "Gosford Park," has died of complications from cancer. He was 81.
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Television entertainer Johnny Carson  has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network  reported on its Web site Sunday.
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Cyrano de Bergerac producer Rene Cleitman dies of an undisclosed illness in a Paris hospital, aged 64.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit television series Dallas, dies of cancer.