Honorary mayor of Hollywood dies
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Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor, was found dead Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said. Grant, 84, appeared to have died of natural causes.
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LOS ANGELES  &#151; Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.
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Charles Lane, the prolific  character actor whose lean, bespectacled face was far better  known to moviegoers than his name, died Monday in Los Angeles  at 102.
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Jerry Orbach, the laconic, sharp-edged Lennie Briscoe of &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; who came to symbolize New York City as much as any actor of his generation, died yesterday at age 69.
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Christopher Reeve, the actor whose work on soaps and on stage was eclipsed when he played the Man of Steel in the motion picture &quot;Superman,&quot; and its sequels, died of heart failure Oct. 10 in a Mount Kisco, NY, hospital.
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NEW YORK - "Law & Order" star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the show said Wednesday.   Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan after several weeks of treatment, Audrey Davis of the public relations agency Lippin G...
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Veteran actor Jerry Orbach, best known as one of the stars of the long-running NBC drama &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; died late Tuesday of prostate cancer.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed  success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international  cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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Ossie Davis, the actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life, has died, an aide said Friday. He was 87.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, who earned a reputation as the quintessential New Yorker through his work in films and as a longtime star of the "Law & Order" television series, has died from prostate cancer. He was 69.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist, bandleader and composer who created a rich body of American music before he quit playing in his prime and walked away from show business, died Thursday in the Southern California city of Thousand Oaks.
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Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," died Sunday. He was 75.
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Ossie Davis, famed African-American actor and civil rights activist, was found dead Friday in his hotel room in Miami Beach, Florida. He was in town filming the movie "Retirement." After several attempts to reach the actor, police were called to the ho...
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By Ihosvani Rodriguez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 8--HOLLYWOOD -- Former City Commissioner and state Rep. Ken Gottlieb announced Wednesday he's stepping away from a condo-retail project he planned to build on city-owned land in a blighted neighborhood.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 79.
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Jerry Orbach, acclaimed as a quintessential New York actor for his work on Broadway, in films and as the star of television&#39;s &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died from cancer.
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US actor Glenn Ford, who starred in dozens of films in a 53-year career, dies at his home in Beverly Hills.