In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

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Bettye Ackerman Jaffe, who appeared on Ben Casey with her husband Sam Jaffe, died November 1, four days after a stroke. She was 82.

She made her film debut in the 1959 drama Face of Fire and made a number of guest appearances in TV series, including Perry Mason and St. Elsewhere.

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Gary Graver, a veteran director, producer, and cinematographer, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 68.

Graver shot several films for Roger Corman and filmed Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard's directoral debut, but is best known as the cinematographer for several Orson Welles films, including F for Fake and The Other Side of the World, which was unfinished when Welles died and which Graver unsuccessfully tried to bring to the screen until his own death.

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[imagel]http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/images/_PHOTOR/Levan.jpg[/imagel]Georgian film director Levan Zakareishvili, who has died aged 53 after a heart attack, cast a searching look over his country in the late Soviet era and early years of independence, dramatising the personal tragedies caused by its political upheavals.

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Film Composer dies in drowning accident

[imagel]http://www.mania.com/content_pics/28631_thumb.jpg[/imagel]According to Soundtrack.net, film composer Nigel Holton, who wrote scores for films such as Carnosaur, Chloe’s Prayer, and Indigo Hearts, has died at the age of 54 in a drowning accident while visiting friends in New Zealand.

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Film director Robert Altman

[imagel]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42341000/jpg/_42341294_altman_getty203b.jpg[/imagel]Robert Altman, acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville and The Player, has died at the age of 81, his production company has announced.

A Hollywood maverick renowned for his improvisational style, he passed away in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.

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French Actor Philippe Noiret Dies at 76

[imagel]http://www.maigret.de/images/filme/philippe_noiret.jpg[/imagel]Philippe Noiret, a beloved French actor featured in the popular "Il Postino" ("The Postman"), died Thursday, the Culture Ministry said. He was 76.

The exact circumstances surrounding his death were not immediately known. Friends said he had been battling cancer.

Noiret was among the most familiar faces in French cinema, making more than 125 movies in a career that spanned more than half a century. Among his first big successes was Louis Malle's 1960 film "Zazie dans le metro" (Zazie in the Metro).

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Betty Comden, a Broadway lyricist who worked with Adolph Green for 60 years, died yesterday. She was 89.

Among their collaborations were "On the Town", "Applause", and "Singin' in the Rain".
 

Gerald Boyd, who became the first black managing editor of the New York Times, but was forced to resign after his involvement with the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal, died yesterday. He was 56.

As deputy managing editor for news at the Times, he oversaw the 2000 series "How Race Is Lived in America", which won a Pulitzer.
 


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