Famed Disney animator Frank Thomas dead at 92
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LOS ANGELES The Disney animator who helped bring life to the dancing penguins in &quot;Mary Poppins&quot; has died. Frank Thomas was 92 when he passed away at his California home yesterday.
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Hollywood cartoon legend Joseph Barbera, half of the famed Hanna-Barbera team, died on Monday at age 95, the Warner Bros. film studio said in a statement.
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Russ Meyer, who helped spawn the "skin flick" with such films as "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and "Vixen," has died. He was 82.
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"Tarzan" will take its last swing through the Broadway jungle on July 8. The lavish Disney stage version of its 1999 animated film will close after 486 performances and 35 previews, Thomas Schumacher, head of Disney Theatrical Productions, announced Friday.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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Oscar-winning motion picture composer Elmer Bernstein has died after a lengthy illness. He was 82. A spokesman says Mr. Bernstein died Wednesday at his Ojai, California home near Los Angeles.
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Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, who made a  fortune first in the oil business and later in entertainment,  died over the weekend at his home in Beverly Hills, California,  at the age of 79, his publicist said late on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES The director who helped spawn the &quot;skin flick&quot; genre with such films as &quot;Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!&quot; and &quot;Vixen,&quot; has died.
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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 popular comedian of yesteryears had been suffering from breathing problems for the last several days. He passed away on February 13 in Mumbai.
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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 home in Beverly Hills. He was 79.
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Roy Scheider, best known for his role as a small town police chief in the hit film thriller "Jaws" and his portrait of famed choreographer Bob Fosse in the biopic "All That Jazz," died on Sunday at age 75.
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Jackie Torrence, who overcame a speech impediment as a child to become a renowned storyteller, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack, her sister said. She was 60.
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Indian guru who introduced the west to transcendental meditation has died
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Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then in a dramatic role won the 1957 Oscar as supporting actor in &quot;Sayonara,&quot; died Thursday. He was 87.
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Longtime Disney animator Art Stevens, who began his studio career working on "Fantasia" and went on to co-direct "The Fox and the Hound" and "The Rescuers," has died. He was 92.