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Dimey Bernard (b. 1931-07-16 / d. 1981-07-01)
Poet. Wrote "Mon truc en plumes".
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Born 1953-07-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Jean-Louis Faure was a French actor and artistic director, born in Saint-Herblain in Loire-Atlantique. Very active in dubbing, he is notably, among others, the regular French voice of Bryan Cranston (including Malcolm, Breaking Bad) and Jeffrey Wright as well as Titus Welliver, Steven Williams, Carl Lumbly, Robert Wisdom, Ted Danson, Mathew St. Patrick and Gregory Alan Williams. He died in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique), at the age of 68, following complications after a heart operation.
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Born 1918-10-22. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
René de Obaldia was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999.
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Born 1937-03-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Romain Bouteille was a French playwright, actor, comedian, and singer of anarchist inspiration. In 1968, he met Coluche. Together, they founded the troupe Café de la Gare. The same year, he separated from his partner Sotha who married Patrick Dewaere. Both were members of the troop.
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Born 1922-03-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Carl Reiner was an American comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and publisher whose career spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar's Hour and Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar. In the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show. He was the father of Rob Reiner (b. 1947); poet, playwright, and author Annie Reiner (b. 1949); and painter,[19] actor, and director Lucas Reiner (b. 1960). Reiner described himself as a Jewish atheist. He said, "I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us." He said in 2013 he developed an atheistic viewpoint as the Holocaust progressed. Reiner was a lifelong Democrat. He endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party nomination during the 2016 United States presidential election. Reiner's residence was in Beverly Hills, California. At the age of 98, he was among the oldest celebrities active on Twitter. He tweeted that he wanted to live long enough to vote out Trump. Unfortunately he could not make it.
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Born 1938-07-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Brian Manion Dennehy was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included First Blood (1982), Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Knight of Cups (2015). Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000). According to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill’s works on stage and screen. He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the play's authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. Dennehy died of cardiac arrest due to sepsis in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Born 1935-12-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID
She was a French actress who appeared as "the woman" in Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), and later worked with playwright Armand Gatti and Iossif Pasternak. She was also a translator, writer and filmmaker (Goulag).
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Born 1926-11-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Graeme Allwright was a New Zealand-born French singer and songwriter. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s as a French language interpreter of the songs of American and Canadian songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, and remained active into his nineties. Graeme Allwright died aged 93 in the retirement home in Seine-et-Marne where he had been living for a year, according to his daughter Jeanne.
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Born 1969-10-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Roy Anthony Hargrove was an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music in 1997 and in 2002. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums, especially performing jazz standards on his 1990s albums. Hargrove was the bandleader of the progressive group the RH Factor, which combined elements of jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, and gospel music. Its members have included Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, Pino Palladino, James Poyser, Jonathan Batiste, and Bernard Wright. His longtime manager was Larry Clothier. A quiet and retiring person in life, Hargrove struggled with kidney failure. He died of cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease, while hospitalized in New Jersey. According to his manager, Larry Clothier, Hargrove had been on dialysis for the last 14 years of his life.
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Born 1914-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gertrude Hadley Jeannette was an American playwright and film and stage actress. She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942. Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City. In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as The Long Dream, Nobody Loves an Albatross, The Amen Corner, The Skin of Our Teeth and Vieux Carré. She also appeared in films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1969, Shaft in 1971, and Black Girl in 1972. She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98.
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Born 1943-11-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. Shepard died at his home in Kentucky, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Born 1921-07-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French television writer, songwriter, actor, playwright, and author of children's books and detective novels. Deret started his career as a songwriter and singer in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the late 1940s. By 1950, he emigrated to Quebec, where he became a theatre and television actor. Nine years later, in 1959, he returned to France and within a few years he created Thierry la Fronde, a television series. Between 1963 and 1966, he wrote 52 episodes.
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Born 1926-03-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
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Born 1928-03-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. Edward Albee was born in 1928. He was placed for adoption two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the wealthy son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theaters. His adoptive mother, Reed's second wife, Frances (Cotter), was a socialite. He later based the main character of his 1991 play Three Tall Women on his mother, with whom he had a conflicted relationship. Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York, aged 88.
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Born 1927-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, screenwriter and playwright.
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Born 1927-10-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was widely regarded as Germany's most famous recently living writer. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, which includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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Born 1922-01-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise. As an actor in a small role Boulanger is famous as the neighbor of Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffauts Bed and Board. When Léaud throws down Claude Jade's coat and purse the stairs, Claude Jade crossing Boulanger and his wife (Silvana Blasi). Boulanger and Blasi help her get into the coat. Here Jade and Léaud are playing a copy of Boulanger and his wife, who says now to Boulanger: "You see, dear. They're truly in love, now." He also played one of the men that Jeanne Moreau was chasing in La Mariée était en noir. He was Delvaux, the shooter.
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Born 1935-08-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
She was a French author, editor, director, and playwright. One of her novels, La Bicyclette bleue ("The Blue Bicycle"), published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller. In 2000, it was made into a television series. A story of love, obsession, and survival set during the turmoil of World War II, it developed into a successful series of seven books. While writing fror the communist daily, l'Humanité, she was accused to defend a false jew but real antisemite, Israel Shamir. She was formerly president of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and a member of the Prix Femina jury.
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Born 1967-07-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American actor and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biographical film Capote, and received three Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor as well as three Tony Award nominations for his work in the theater. Hoffman was found dead by his friend, playwright David Bar Katz, in the bathroom of Hoffman's West Village, Manhattan office apartment. According to the New York City Police Department, he was found with a hypodermic needle in his arm. The investigators also found heroin in the apartment. In a 2006 interview with 60 Minutes, Hoffman revealed that he had suffered from drug and alcohol abuse after graduating from college, and went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, recovering at age 22. He said he had abused "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all." Hoffman relapsed over 20 years later, checking into a rehabilitation program for about 10 days in May 2013 because of problems with prescription pills and heroin.
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Born 1919-10-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Doris May Lessing (née Tayler) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born 1925-10-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in West Point, New York, the only child of 1st Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) and Nina Gore (1903–1978). The middle name, Louis, was a mistake on the part of his father, "who could not remember for certain whether his own name was Eugene Louis or Eugene Luther." As Vidal explained in his memoir Palimpsest (Deutsch, 1995), "... my birth certificate says 'Eugene Louis Vidal': this was changed to Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr.; then Gore was added at my christening; then at fourteen I got rid of the first two names."
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Born 1930-10-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Born 1913-09-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, playwright and essayist originally from Belgium. He was close to the Hussards right-wing literary movement, itself close to the monarchist.
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Born 1936-10-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. Havel received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award and several other distinctions. Soon to be former French president N. Sarkozy, while showing off as usual, pretending he knew him very well, mispronunced his firstname several times, saying vaklav instead of vasslav. Well done, Mr President.
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Born 1917-07-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter. After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions. Laurents' early film scripts included Rope (1948) for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). Laurents died at the age of 93 in New York City of pneumonia complications, as reported by The New York Times. He had lived with his lover Tom Hatcher for more than 50 years, until Hatcher's death in 2006.
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Born 1936-04-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American television, movie, and voice actor. He may be best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968's The Producers, and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein. He also played Otto Mannkusser, in Malcolm in the middle, Francis' German boss and sidekick for the fourth and fifth seasons. He meets Francis while he had a 1974 broken car at the highway coming down from Alaska. Otto is in charge of The Grotto, a dude ranch (named after the two in the episode "Zoo,", Otto says "She is Gretchen, I am Otto - Grotto"). Otto is married to Gretchen and has an estranged son. Otto is gullible and a bit of a pushover; he hires too many employees and gives them extra vacation days. However, after Francis works on the ranch for a little over two years, Otto fires him when the ATM that Francis was depositing his funds into was not really an ATM. His last name might be derived from the ill-formed German expression "Mannküsser", literally meaning "man kisser." In the German version of the show, the Mannkussers are Danes and speak with a very heavy Danish accent.
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Born 1928-11-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Jerry Bock was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Harnick.
Bock spoke at the funeral of 98-year-old Fiddler playwright Joseph Stein just 10 days before his own death, from heart failure.
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Born 1912-05-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
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Born 1961-11-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American actor best known for his role as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski, the gay fireman lover of Vito Spatafore, in the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter in real life, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Sunset Park home in Brooklyn. He was 47. His body was not discovered until December 18.
Costelloe killed himself in the middle of a run in the off-off-Broadway ensemble play "Gang of Seven," which had received sterling reviews – including two printed the day after he died.
"This part he had, I really wrote it for him," said "Gang of Seven" playwright Jim Neu, who cast Costelloe as a fast-talking hustler.
Neu said Costelloe's timing was off in his final shows. But when Neu and the director gently quizzed Costelloe about what was bothering him, the actor didn't open up.
"He didn't seem like the kind of guy who would reach out," Neu said. "There couldn't have been a more supportive and friendly group. If he wanted to reach out to people, we were right in front of him. I wish he did."
Die Hard 2 (1990) as Sgt. Oswald Cochrane
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Born 1931-01-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Finnish poet and playwright, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers. He won the Neustadt Prize for literature in 1984.
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Born 1943-07-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd.
Wright died after a short battle with cancer.