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• Rest In Laughter, David Lloyd

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  David Lloyd, who not only wrote some of the greatest single episodes in TV sitcom history [ Chuckles the Clown youtube ], but consistently wrote hilariously, has died at 75. I especially loved a lot of his work on Frasier. With the death of Larry Gelbart (best known for M*A*S*H, but also a writer for the original ...
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• David Lloyd, 1934-2009

  
  The Awl — Authority: 706
  David Lloyd, whose many sitcom credits include the Mary Tyler Moore Show ’s “Chuckles Bites The Dust”—perhaps one of the funniest television episodes of all time— has died at the age of 75.
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• Rock Hudsons Partner Marc Christian Dead (Of Drug Overdose?)

  
  Queerty — Authority: 732
  Marc Christian, either the "good friend" or "partner" ( according to Wikipedia ) of late Rock Hudson (pictured), has died of a reported drug overdose . CONTINUED » Permalink | 5 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: deaths , Drugs , marc christian , obits , Rock Hudson
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• Grace under pressure

  
  feminine-genius — Authority: 417
  An extraordinary woman has just died, after a heroic life caught in the maelstrom of revolution and deceit. In 1966, Nien Cheng was already a widow of the general manager of Shell Oil and drew the wrath of fervent young Maoist students -- who trashed her home and beat her. She was subsequently arrested and tortured ...
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• Williamsburg Drummer Dies in Freak Accident [Death]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Gerhardt Fuchs , a 34 year-old drummer in bands including !!! and Maserati, fell to his death in a Williamsburg elevator shaft last weekend in a horrifying hoodie-related accident. Fuchs was reportedly at a party early Sunday morning when the elevator he was in stalled. Newsday reports: As Fuchs attempted to ...
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• What Double-Decker Buses Taught Us About Heart Attacks

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  The doctor who figured out that exercise lowers the risk heart-attack died recently.
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• CHEN LIN...FALLS NINE FLOORS

  
  Ill Folks — Authority: 118
  A beloved singer who once had a million-selling album ("I Can Never Understand Your Love" in 1993), Chen Lin died after a fall from the ninth floor of an apartment in Beijing. It was the home of a friend. She had a bandage on her neck (caused, friends said, by a recent failed suicide attempt), and the corpse was ...
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• Mad Butcher Director Guido Zurli Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Italian film director and screenwriter Guido Zurli helmed the 1971 black comedy/horror film The Mad Butcher (aka Lo Strangolatore di Vienna and Meat Is Meat ). Over-sized actor Victor Buono starred in the title role of Otto, a butcher in Vienna, who turns his wife and others into sausages. Zurli was born at ...
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• Character Actor Lou Jacobi Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Leading character actor Lou Jacobi appeared in numerous productions on stage, film and television during his long career including several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents . He was born Louis Jacobovitch in Toronto, Canada, on December 28, 1913. He performed on stage from his youth and began his film career in ...
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• Slapstick Comic Icon Soupy Sales Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Soupy Sales was a slapstick comedian who elevated pie-throwing to an art form to become a cult icon with his children’s television programs in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina, on January 8, 1926. With his last name often mispronounced “Soupman”, he was dubbed with ...
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• Joseph Wiseman – James Bond’s Villainous Dr. No – Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Character actor Joseph Wiseman brought to life the first screen villain for British secret agent James Bond when he played Dr. No in the 1962 film of the same name. Wiseman played the cool and calculating menace in the first of the long-running series of James Bond films, which initially starred Sean Connery as the ...
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• Italian Leading Lady Rosanna Schiaffino Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Rosanna Schiaffino was the lovely Italian actress who starred opposite American Olympic athlete (and future Congressman) Bob Mathias in 1960’s The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete . Schiaffino played the dual role of the evil Princess Fedra and her good twin, Arianna, in this filmic version of the legendary ...
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• Addams Family Theme Writer Vic Mizzy Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Composer Vic Mizzy wrote the classic theme songs for the 1960s television comedy series The Addams Family and Green Acres . His best known work commenced with a “buh-buh-buh-bump” – two finger snaps – another “buh-buh-buh-bump”, and the opening verse “They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious ...
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• Veteran Comic Book Artist George Tuska Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  George Tuska was best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1960s and 1970s, where he illustrated the Iron Man title for over a decade. Tuska was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 26, 1916, and began working in New York’s comic book industry in the late 1930s. He illustrated comics for such publishers ...
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• Wrestling Legend Captain Lou Albano Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Captain Lou Albano was a legendary wrestling manager at the forefront when the WWF (now WWE) initiated the Rock `n’ Wrestling storyline in the mid-1980s. Sporting an unwieldy beard, accented by rubber bands and the occasional paperclip, his storyline feud with pop star Cyndi Lauper helped propel wrestling into ...
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• Leading Actress Collin Wilcox Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Actress Collin Wilcox was best known for her role as the young white woman whose false claim that she was raped by a black man served as the focal point in the 1963 Oscar-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird . She also starred in the classic Twilight Zone episode “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You” in 1964 ...
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• New Zealand Lord Of The Rings Actor Martyn Sanderson Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Martyn Sanderson was a veteran New Zealand character actor from the 1960s. One of his later roles was as the gate keeper of Bree in Peter Jackson’s 2001 film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring . He allowed Frodo and his fellow Hobbits entry to Bree before being ...
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• Al Martino – Singer of “Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte” – Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Al Martino was a popular crooner from the 1950s who sang the haunting them for the 1964 psychological horror film Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. The song refers to Charlotte’s lover, who loses a hand and his head to a hatchet wielding maniac in the film. The title tune, ...
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• Close Encounters Make-Up Artist Westmoreland Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Make-up artist Bob Westmoreland was best known for his work on Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind . He worked on make-up for the 1977 sci-fi classic, and appeared onscreen in a small role as a load dispatcher. Westmoreland began working in films and television in the early 1970s, and provided ...
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• Italian Horror Film Directo Rino Di Silvestro Dies

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 441
  Rino Di Silvestro was writer and director of the schlock horror film Legend of the Wolf Woman (aka La Lupa Mannara ) starring Annik Borel. Di Silvestro was born in Italy on January 30, 1932, and began his career working in theater. He made his directorial debut with the 1973 exploitation classic Women in Cell ...
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