Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker for the Raiders who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star has died.
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His work spanned TV, theater and radio, and he starred in dozens of films from “Gosford Park” to “The King’s Speech” and the animated family movie “Paddington.”
Authorities have confirmed that British actor Julian Sands died while hiking on a Southern California mountain.
Prosecutors plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film ” Rust.”
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II.
New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports.
The Academy Award-winning actress says she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
He died of natural causes early Friday in his New York City apartment, according to his manager, Matt Beckoff.
His manager Matt DelPiano said he died on Wednesday. No cause was given.
Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the cinematographer he fatally shot on a movie set, calling her a friend and saying he is in “constant contact” with her grieving family.
Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer brutally raped by a backwoodsman in 1972’s “Deliverance” launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, has died. He was 83.
She was also Kirstie Alley’s mom in “Look Who’s Talking” and its sequel “Look Who’s Talking Too,” and the sardonic widow in “Steel Magnolias.”
The Scottish actor rose to international superstardom as the suave and fearless secret agent, first playing Bond in “Dr No” in 1962.
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died Monday. He was 91.