Brad Renfro, Who Portrayed Witness in âThe Client,â Dies at 25
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Brad Renfro was a former child star who played a witness to a mob lawyerâs suicide in the 1994 legal thriller âThe Clientâ and a suburban youth tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal in the 1998 film âApt Pupilâ.
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Freddy Rodriguez has gone from undertaker to A-lister. The 31-year-old actor, who played embalmer Frederico "Rico" Diaz on the HBO hit "Six Feet Under," has two movies opening this month.
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Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, a New Orleans sports commentator who originated the tradition of fans wearing bags on their heads to lament losing teams, has died at the age of 73. Diliberto died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Metairie, said his son, Mike Diliberto.
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Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward. Judge Reginald A. Dunn has rejected arguments by the city that the complaint filed by the 77-year-old actor and real estate agent Aaron Leider lacks a legal basis.
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The creator and star of NBCâs show on surviving the first season, life outside the office and the demise of âStudio 60.â
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Ken MacAfee, who played for the Giants in the 1950s, has died. He was 77.MacAfee had what was thought to be a heart attack July 4 while playing golf and was pronounced dead later at a hospital in Brockton, Mass., said Natalie Melo of the Conley Funeral and Cremation Service.MacAfee, an end, played for the Giants from 1954-58, a team spokesman said.His son, Ken, a former Notre Dame star and college football Hall of Famer, also played in the N.F.L.
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Michelle Williams ended her silence Friday, saying her "heart is broken" over the death of "Brokeback Mountain" actor Heath Ledger. The 27-year-old actress and Ledger became a couple during filming of 2005's "Brokeback," in which they costarred as husband and wife. They later moved to New York, and had a daughter, Matilda, born October 2005.
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Actor Brad Renfro's death has been attributed to "acute heroin/morphine intoxication," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Coroner's office.  "The final manner of death has been ruled an accident," the coroner's office said, adding t...
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A young RAF engineer who took part in secret nerve gas tests 51 years ago was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has decided. Ronald Maddison, from Consett, County Durham, died after having drops of Sarin
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US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75.
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"Law &amp; Order" star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at age 69, a representative of the show said. Orbach announced last month he had been diagnosed with the disease.
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Playbill - Robert Lantz, the Berlin-born, New York-based talent agent whose clients included such theatre and film greats as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, Al Hirschfeld, Alfred Drake and Mike Nichols, and who retained his status as an independent until the end, died on Oct. 18 in Manhattan. He was 93.
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NEW YORK Former National League MVP and admitted steroid user Ken Caminiti has died at age 41. His agent says Caminiti suffered a heart attack in the New York borough of the Bronx on Sunday.
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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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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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Novelist and gay rights activist Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends said on Monday.
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(Note language in final paragraph)     By Brad Dorfman