Dead Celebs - 2005

[Truth Seeker]

Have I Got News For You man dies

TV comedy producer Harry Thompson, one of the creators of Have I Got News For You, has died at the age of 45.

His other successes included They Think It's All Over, Harry Enfield and Chums, Monkey Dust and The 11 O'clock Show.

He also wrote biographies of Peter Cook and Herge, the creator of Tintin. His first novel, This Thing of Darkness, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Mr Thompson was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in April and was being treated at a London hospital.

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[Truth Seeker]

Sheree North dies aged 72

Sheree North, the film, TV and stage actor whose career spanned five decades, has died, aged 72. Having begun her career as a substitute blonde bombshell for the unreliable Marilyn Monroe Los Angeles, she went on to develop a memorable line in quirky character roles.

North died at a Los Angeles hospital on Friday, following complcations after surgery.

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[Truth Seeker]

Minako Honda Dies

Minako Honda, known best known for her portrayal of the role of "Kim" in Miss Saigon, but also known for several anime theme songs and a Japanese pop-music career, died on Sunday morning of acute myelocytic leukemia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 38.

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[Truth Seeker]

Geoffrey Keen

Best known in films as a rather glum, small-part player, Geoffrey Keen, who has died aged 89, was a much underestimated character actor. He also rather underestimated himself. "Most of the stuff I do is rubbish," he would say, "but it's a very exciting thing to get a mediocre part and give it a third dimension - to make a character a real chap instead of being cardboard."

This he did regularly on stage, television and in more than 100 films, including Doctor in the House (1954), Genevieve (1966), Born Free (1966) and six of the James Bond movies - in which he was the secret agent's Whitehall boss, Sir Frederick Gray, known only (like his real-life counterpart) as "M".

Geoffrey Keen, actor, born August 21 1916; died November 3 2005.

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http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/va/20051111/113170788200.html

Hollywood Arab film director Moustapha Akkad has died in hospital from wounds sustained in this week's hotel bomb attacks in Jordan. He had produced the "Halloween" series and directed "The Message" and "Lion of the Desert".

 

[kingpaul]

Management Guru Peter Drucker, 95, Dies

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[Cevalic]

Eddie Guerrero, 38

http://www.top-rope.com/trc.php?id=news/headlines/133910799.html

By far one of the most amazing wrestlers I've ever seen. He will be missed...

 

[Truth Seeker]

Hiro Takahashi Dies (2005-11-12 16:28:42)

Musician Hiro Takahashi dies on November 4th of multiple organ failure due to complications arising from a tumor. He was 41. Takahashi is best known for theme music to Bottle Fairy, Yu Yu Hakusho, as well as a significant amount of insert and promotional music for Digimon.

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[Truth Seeker]

Von Ryan's author Westheimer dies

Novelist David Westheimer, who drew on his experiences as a World War II prisoner of war to write Von Ryan's Express, has died in LA aged 88.

The Texas-born former journalist died of heart failure at UCLA Medical Center on Tuesday, his son Fred announced.

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[Truth Seeker]

William Hootkins

William Hootkins, who has died aged 57, was a Hollywood character actor, but what he was best known for was his impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock on the London stage. In 2003, he caused a sensation with his portrayal of the film director in Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court Theatre, before transferring to the West End. He had a wonderful sense of humour and a booming voice that more than matched his gargantuan frame.


Hootkins studied Hitchcock's every gesture and paid particular attention to getting his accent right. A planned repeat of the role on Broadway earlier this year was cancelled only after Bill was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January.

William 'Hoot' Hootkins, actor, born July 5 1948; died October 23 2005

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