Actor Ossie Davis Dies at Age 87
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Actor and civil rights activist  Ossie Davis, whose career spanned more than half a century, has  died in Miami while working on a new movie, his office said on  Friday.
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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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Freddie Fields, who  reigned as the personification of the free-wheeling,  high-living Hollywood agent from the 1960s through the '70s,  has died. He was 84.
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The British actress, who shared one of cinemaâs most famous kisses in âFrom Here to Eternity,â has died at 86.
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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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Actor John Inman, most famous for his role in the comedy Are You Being Served?, dies aged 71.
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South African playwright Gibson Kente, who announced last year he was HIV positive, dies aged 72.
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Country music singer Skeeter Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday, according to a family friend.
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Johnny Grant, a tireless show business figure dubbed the "honorary mayor of Hollywood" for his devotion to the historic movie industry hub, died on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was 84.
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Skeeter Davis, who hit the top of the pop charts with "The End of the World" in 1963 and sang on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years, died Sunday of cancer. She was 72.
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The strength and grace and dignity of Ossie Davis' life were honored   this weekend in New York.
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At a screening Monday of a documentary on Malcolm X to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death, the late actor Ossie Davis was eulogized as an inspiration for both the artistic and civil rights communities.
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Actor Robert Earl Jones, a fixture in Broadway shows and movies and the father of actor James Earl Jones, has died. Jones, 96, died Sept. 7 at the Lillian Booth Actors' Home, according to the home and Dale Olson, his son's agent.
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LOS ANGELES  - Anita O'Day, the last of the great jazz singers spawned by the swing era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was 87.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, a member of the Rat Pack led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist Warren Cowan said on Thursday.
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Rapper ODB, also known as Russell Jones, collapsed and died Saturday in a New York City recording studio at age 35. Police said there was no evidence of foul play and the city medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.