Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki dies at 78
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Actress Miyoshi Umeki, who won an Oscar for her performance as the doomed wife of an American serviceman in "Sayonara" and later starred in the Broadway musical "Flower Drum Song," has died of cancer. She was 78.
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American actor Christopher Reeve, star of the Superman films, has died aged 52.
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English film score composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84.
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Arts & entertainment: Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca a master of costume drama and light comedy, including works such as "King of Hearts" and "That Man from Rio", has died at the age of 71.
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Carl Mydans, the celebrated World War Two photo-journalist, has died at his US home aged 97.
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood's most memorable music, including scores for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," has died at age 82, his publicist said on Thursday.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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US actor Glenn Ford, who made over 100 films, dies aged 90, at his home in Beverly Hills.
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The legendary mime Marcel Marceau is no more.
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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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Marcel Marceau, 84, the world's greatest mime, who single-handedly revived the ancient art with his eloquent but wordless interpretations of complex emotions, died quietly in Paris on Sept. 22. No cause of death was reported.
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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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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
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Vincent Sherman, who directed &amp;#151; and romanced &amp;#151; Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the 1940s and &#039;50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.
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Director Gerard Oury, a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits today, has died, local officials at his Riviera home said Thursday. He was 87.