2010----In Remembrance.

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Actor Glenn Shadix died yesterday after a fall. He was 58.

 

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David Dortort, creator of Bonanza, died Sunday. He was 93.

 

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Rich Cronin, a member of the boy band LFO, died yesterday of cancer. He was 35.

 

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Philanthropist John Kluge, who was once the richest man in America, died Tuesday. He was 95.

Kluge founded Metromedia Broadcasting, which was bought by Rupert Murdoch and formed the core of the Fox Broadcasting Network.

 

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New Wave film director Claude Chabrol died over the weekend. He was 80.

 

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Veteran actor Kevin McCarthy died yesterday. He was 96.

McCarthy was probably best known for starring in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He won a Golden Globe for Death of a Salesman.

 

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Character actor Harold Gould, who played Rhoda's father and Rose's boyfriend on The Golden Girls, died last Saturday. He was 86.

 

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Micky Burn, a British journalist, novelist, and war hero who helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, died September 3. He was 97.

 

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Billie Mae Richards, the Canadian radio actress, that provided male voice for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has died at age 88 on Friday at her home near Toronto according to >E! Online. It was after a series of strokes Richards had.

Richards was credited as “Billy Richards” to mask that she was a woman. She voiced Rudolph in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and two other Rankin-Bass productions in 1976 and 1979. She also made guest appearances on television shows Maniac Mansion, My Secret Identity, and The Hidden Room.

Voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer died | TheCelebrityCafe.com

 

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Longtime NBC news correspondent Edwin Newman died August 13. He was 91.

In addition to his long and distinguished career, which included writing documentaries and covering the death of John F. Kennedy, Newman wrote two books, Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue, that skewered pretentions in the English language.