In Remembrance...2008

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Ivan Dixon, an actor best known for playing Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes, died Sunday. He was 76.

Dixon also directed hundreds of TV episodes, including The Waltons, The Rockford Files, and Magnum, P.I., and was Sidney Poitier's stunt double in The Defiant Ones.

 

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Actor Paul Scofield, who won an Oscar for A Man For All Seasons, died yesterday. He was 86.

 

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Phillip Jones Griffiths, a photographer who travelled across Vietnam to capture the effects of the Vietnam War on its people, died of cancer yesterday. He was 72.

 

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Al Copeland, founder of Popeyes Chicken, died Sunday. He was 64.

 

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Richard Widmark, an actor whose menacing portrayals made his name synonymous with film noir, died Monday after a long illness. He was 93.

Widmark made his debut in the film Kiss of Death (and won an Oscar and Golden Globe) and appeared in numerous thrillers and westerns. He was nominated for an Emmy for the 1972 film Vanished.

 

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Art Aragon, the handsome actor known as "The Golden Boy", who inspired thousands of women to join their husbands and boyfriends in boxing arenas in the 1940s and 1950s, died yesterday following a stroke. He was 80.

Although Aragon never held a title, he had an impressive career, scoring 90 wins, 20 losses, and six draws. He later appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, and counted Bob Hope, Robert Mitchum, William Holden, and Sammy Davis Jr. among his close friends.

 

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Screenwriter Abby Mann, whose often contained social messages, died Tuesday. He was 84.

Mann wrote Judgment at Nuremberg (which starred Richard Widmark, who coincidentally died a day earlier) and won an Oscar. He is also credited with creating Kojak.

 

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Spanish horror director Carlos Aured passed away on Feb. 3rd at age 71. He directed some of my favorite movies like Horror Rises From The Tomb, Curse Of The Devil, and Vengeance of the Mummy (the best mummy movie ever made).

 

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Sean Levert of the R&B group Levert, died late Sunday when he fell ill in a Cleveland jail. He was 39. His death comes just over a year after his brother (and Levert co-member) Gerald.

 

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Film director Jules Dassin, who directed Never On Sunday, Topkapi, and Rififi, among others, died yesterday. He was 96.