Actor John Vernon of 'Animal House' Dies
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John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was 72.
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Comic actor Charles Nelson Reilly,  a lauded Broadway performer and campy game show guest in the  1970s and 1980s, has died in Los Angeles, a representative for  the actor said on Monday.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to the TV Western "Rawhide", died on Tuesday at 93.
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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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Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in &quot;Trading Places&quot; and the angry high school principal in &quot;The Breakfast Club,&quot; has died. He was 67.
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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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The actor who became famous playing Superman, then turned into an icon for quadraplegics after he was left paralysed by a 1995 riding accident, died of a heart attack at his home on Sunday night.
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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.
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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. Authorities found him in his bed at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he lived, about 7 p.m. Pacific Time (1...
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, an orangutan who once hobnobbed with Britain's Prince Philip, popstar Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died, zoo staff said Saturday.
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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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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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&quot;Superman&quot; actor Christopher Reeve, paralyzed when he fell from a horse nine years ago, has died in a New York hospital of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday.
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Christian Brando, the tormented son of late Hollywood acting legend Marlon Brando, has died in Los Angeles from pneumonia, his family and lawyers told US media Saturday. He was 49.
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Â· Actor died from combined effect of prescribed drugsÂ· Medication included pills for anxiety and insomnia
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Jerry Orbach, the actor best known for his role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the police drama series &#39;Law &amp; Order&#39;, has died from cancer.