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Maudet Christian (b. 1904-08-04 / d. 1994-07-08) alias Christian-Jaque
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Born 1917-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Nathan Davis was an American film and television actor. Davis died from emphysema and complications of pneumonia in Chicago at age 91.
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Born 1917-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles, including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960), and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues. He is also known for a short marriage to Peggy Lee, a friendship with Marilyn Monroe and for saving Frank Sinatra from drowning. Dexter's tough-guy roles contrasted with his easygoing and friendly real-life personality
Emphysema.
He played Harry Luck in the magnificent seven.
On May 10, 1964, during production of the World War II film "None But the Brave" in Kaui, Hawaii, Frank Sinatra and Ruth Koch, the wife of producer Howard Koch, were swimming at a beach when they were swept out to sea by the outgoing tide and nearly drowned. Sinatra's co-star Brad Dexter and two surfers swam out and rescued them. Dexter was later awarded a Red Cross medal for his bravery. Sinatra and Dexter co-starred in a second film together "Von Ryan's Express" and Dexter subsequently produced "The Naked Runner" which starred Sinatra and was filmed in London. Unfortunately the two men clashed over Sinatra's unwillingess to finish the film and after it was completed, Dexter resigned. "I was the only guy who dropped Sinatra," Dexter said. "I couldn't put up with his nonsense."
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Born 1925-03-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux.
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Born 1917-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
At his side in his last years was ex-wife Jeannie (Bieggers) Martin, whom he had divorced years earlier. The pair became close again, although they resisted suggestions that they wed and seemed content to just being together.
Martin died of respiratory failure, at home with Jeannie by his side, on Christmas morning 1995.
Martin's world began to crumble on March 21, 1987, when his son Dean Paul Martin was killed when his jet fighter crashed while flying with the Air National Guard. A much-touted tour with Davis and Sinatra in 1988 sputtered, with Martin's heart just not into it. On one occasion, he infuriated Sinatra when he turned to him and muttered "Frank, what the hell are we doing up here?" Martin, who always responded best to a club audience, felt lost in the huge stadiums they were performing in (at Sinatra's insistence), and he was not the least bit interested in drinking until dawn after their performances.
In fact, Martin never completely recovered from losing his son, and as a lifelong smoker was suffering from emphysema. In September 1993, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He courageously kept his private life to himself, emerging briefly for a public celebration of his 77th birthday with friends and family.
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Born 1911-10-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes. He lived in Mill Valley, California, and died of pneumonia and emphysema in Greenbrae, California..
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Born 1911-05-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Price was a lifelong smoker. He had long suffered from emphysema and Parkinson's disease, which had forced his role in Edward Scissorhands to be much smaller than intended.
His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery, as his condition was becoming noticeable on-screen. He died of lung cancer at age 82.
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Born 1928-09-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
York spent his final years battling emphysema.
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Born 1920-11-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema. Buried in the Glenwood cimetery at Houston, Texas.
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Born 1912-02-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Stroke
Durrell suffered from emphysema for many years: he died of a stroke at his house in Sommières in November 1990.
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Born 1918-08-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema. After a prolonged period, hyperventilation becomes inadequate to maintain high enough oxygen levels in the blood. The body compensates by vasoconstricting appropriate vessels. This leads to pulmonary hypertension, which places increased strain on the right side of the heart, the one that pumps unoxygenated blood to the lungs, fails. The failure causes the heart muscle to thicken to pump more blood. Eventually, as the heart continues to fail, it becomes larger and blood backs up in the liver.
He died just five days after retiring. A longtime heavy smoker, he had battled emphysema from his mid-20s; he suffered a coughing fit in the middle of the Beethoven performance which almost caused the concert to break down. Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
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Born 1906-04-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
His wife, Suzanne, died on 17 July 1989. Beckett, suffering from emphysema and possibly Parkinson's disease and confined to a nursing home, died on December 22 of the same year. The two were interred together in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris, and share a simple marble gravestone which follows Beckett's directive that it be "any colour, so long as it's grey."
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Born 1906-05-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Astor died at age 81, of respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema while a patient in the hospital in the Motion Picture House complex, exactly one week before Prisoner of Zenda co-star Madeleine Carroll. She is interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.
One of her famous quotes detailed the 5 stages of her career: “Who’s Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who’s Mary Astor?"
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Born 1906-08-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema.
Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive lung disease. It is often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke.
Huston directed The Misfits (1960) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. Famously, Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that 'if he kept it up he would soon die of it'. Ironically, and tragically, Gable died three weeks after the end of filming from a massive heart attack while Huston went on to live for twenty-six more years.
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Born 1906-11-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Brooks unfortunately had a life-long love of alcohol (more specifically gin), having begun drinking heavily at the age of fourteen and was an alcoholic for a major portion of her life, although she exorcised that particular demon enough to begin writing about film, which became her second life.
She had lived alone by choice for many years, and died from a heart attack in 1985, after suffering from arthritis and emphysema for many years.
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Born 1894-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Upon his death from emphysema at the age of eighty in Oxnard, Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles. His widow, Ruth, whom he married in 1920, lived to be ninety-nine and is buried next to him. They had a daughter and two sons.
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Born 1887-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Boris Karloff lived out his final years at his cottage, 'Roundabout', in the Hampshire village of Bramshott. After a long battle with arthritis and emphysema, he contracted pneumonia, succumbing to it in the King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex, England.
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Born 1891-06-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Porter's mother died in 1952, and his wife died of emphysema in 1954. By 1958, Porter's injuries caused a series of ulcers on his right leg. After 34 operations, it had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face...I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly." In fact, Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining six years of his life in relative seclusion, seeing only intimate friends. He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York in his memorabilia-filled apartment. On weekends, he often visited an estate in the Berkshires, and he stayed in California during the summers. Porter died of kidney failure in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73. He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in his native Peru, Indiana, between his wife and father.
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Born 1870-12-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema.
Pierre Louÿs was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."