Kevin Jarre
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Born August 6, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan.
Jarre was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer. He was born in to actress Laura Devon who subsequently married Maurice Jarre in the mid-1960s, and hence was the adoptive half-brother to French composer Jean-Michel Jarre. Of his more well-known film scripts include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Glory, and Tombstone. Jarre wrote the screenplays for The Mummy and The Devil’s Own as well, while also producing The Jackal. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing Glory.
Kevin Jarre died in Santa Monica, California of heart failure.
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Born March 15, 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Madelyn Pugh Davis died on April 20, 2011, aged 90, in Santa Monica, California.
Madelyn Pugh sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis , Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series.
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Born February 1, 1946 Liverpool, England.
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She appeared as a regular from 1973 to 1976, opposite both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Died on 19 April 2011, aged 63, after suffering from cancer.
Michael Sarrazin
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Born on May 22, 1940 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Died on April 17, 2011 after a brief battle with cancer.
Michael Sarrazin was a Canadian actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?. He served as a supporting actor in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971). He starred in a string of successes, including the television movie Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), the crime caper Harry in Your Pocket (1973), the screwball comedy For Pete’s Sake (1974), and the horror film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975), about a man doomed to die the same kind of death twice. His film career as a leading man came to a close with his role in The Gumball Rally (1976).
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Born Trevor Gordon Bannister on August 14, 1934 in Durrington, Wiltshire, England.
Bannister died on April 14, 2011, at the age of 76, after a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Trevor Bannister was an English actor best known for playing the womanizing junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010.
Comments OffAngela Scoular
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Born on November 8, 1945 in London, England.
Angela Scoular was an English actress. She was among a small group of actors to have appeared in two James Bond films, made by different production companies. Scoular played Buttercup in the 1967 comedy Casino Royale and then two years later made an appearance in the EON Productions-produced Bond film series playing Ruby in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Her other film credits include A Countess from Hong Kong, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and Doctor in Trouble.
Her television credits included Doctor in the House, The Avengers, Coronation Street, Penmarric, As Time Goes By and You Rang, M’Lord? in the recurring role of Lady Agatha Shawcross.
Scoular died on 11 April 2011, in a suspected suicide.
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Born on June 25, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, although he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4.
Lumet died aged 86 on April 9, 2011 in his residence in Manhattan, New York from lymphoma.
Comments OffWayne Robson
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Born April 29, 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Wayne Robson was a Canadian television, film and stage actor best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-con on The Red Green Show, and the character Beano Callahan in the Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary comedy, Two If by Sea. Robson was nominated and won several Gemini Awards. He also appeared in the TV series and miniseries The Good Germany, Puppets Who Kill, Franklin, Relic Hunter and Lexx.
Robson died on April 4, 2011 at the age of 64.
Comments OffLou Gorman
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Born James Gerald “Lou” Gorman on February 18, 1929 in South Providence, Rhode Island.
Lou Gorman was an American baseball executive, and the former general manager of the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. He spent more than three decades in baseball operations, as a general manager, farm system director or scouting director, and at the time of his death he was the Red Sox’ executive consultant for public affairs with an emphasis on community projects. He also was the coordinator of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, to which he was inducted in 2002. He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
Gorman died on April 1, 2011 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, at age 82 on the Opening Day of the Red Sox’ 2011 season.
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