Patrice O’Neal
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Patrice O’Neal – Elephant In The Room
Born on December 7, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Patrice O’Neal was an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor. He was known for his cutting, often confrontational crowd work during which he often played couples against each other. Originally from Boston, he was a resident of Jersey City, New Jersey in his later years.
Patrice O’Neal died on November 28, 2011, he died due to complications from his stroke. He was 41.
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Photographic Prints of Everton v Bolton – Anrdrew Johnson and Boltons Gary Speed from Everton ePhoto
Born on 8 September 1969 in Mancot, Wales.
Gary Speed was a Welsh football player and manager. He was captain of the Wales national football team until he retired from international football in 2004 and he remains the most capped outfield player for Wales and the second overall, having appeared 85 times at senior level between 1990 and 2004, playing mainly as a left-side attacking midfielder.
Gary Speed died on November 11, 2011. He committed suicide by hanging. He was 42 years old.
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Born on July 3, 1927 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
Ken Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church. His films often dealt with the lives of famous composers or were based on other works of art which he adapted loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers’ lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who’s Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980).
Ken Russell died on November 27, 2011 in London, England. Aged 84.
John Neville
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (20th Anniversary Edition)
Born on 2 May 1925 in Willesden, London, England.
John Neville was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).
Neville died on 19 November 2011, aged 86 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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DangerMouse: The Complete Series Megaset
Mark Hall was the co-creator of the popular British children’s animation series DangerMouse, Count Duckula and Jamie and his Magic Torch. After working for Granada TV in the 60s, Hall and Brian Cosgrove founded the animation company Cosgrove Hall Productions in 1976 and created a number of animated series such as DangerMouse and even the animated version of Kenneth Grahame’s book Wind in the Willows.
Mark Hall died on November 18, 2011 due to cancer. He was 75.
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Make Room for Daddy: Season 6
Born on April 21, 1922.
Jack Elinson co-wrote 34 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (mostly in collaboration with Charles Stewart) and 16 episodes of Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. He also wrote episodes of the TV series “The Real McCoys”, “Make Room for Daddy” (for which he received an Emmy nomination), “Hogan’s Heroes”, “The Doris Day Show”, “Good Times”, “One Day at a Time”, “The Facts of Life” and “227″.
Elinson died on November 17, 2011.
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Pac-Man Fever
Gary Garcia was a part of the Buckner & Garcia duo consisting of himself and Jerry Buckner from Akron, Ohio. Their first collaboration was in 1980, when they wrote a novelty Christmas song, “Merry Christmas in the NFL”, imagining Howard Cosell as Santa Claus. Performed under the pseudonym “Willis The Guard & Vigorish”, the song reached #82 on the Billboard charts despite limited airplay after Cosell found the song offensive. In 1981, the duo wrote a sentimental country song called “Footprints in the Sand,” performed by Edgel Groves. They also wrote the lyrics for extra verses of an extended version of the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song in 1982. However, the duo is best known for the song “Pac-Man Fever”, which became a large novelty hit in 1982, peaking at #9 in the United States.
Gary Garcia died at his home in Englewood, Florida on November 17, 2011 from undisclosed causes.
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Moogie
Born on September 7, 1950 in Great Neck, New York.
Mark “Moogy” Klingman was an American musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of Todd Rundgren’s musical team Utopia, and later became a solo recording artist, bandleader and songwriter. He released two solo recordings, and his songs have been covered by artists as wide ranging as Johnny Winter, Carly Simon, James Cotton, Thelma Houston, Eric Clapton, Barry Manilow and Guns N’ Roses. He played on stage with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Luther Vandross, Jeff Beck and Allan Woody & Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers and Gov’t Mule. Other than Rundgren, his longest musical association may have been with Bette Midler, serving as her band leader and who adopted as her signature song (You Gotta Have) Friends, composed by Klingman and William “Buzzy” Linhart.
Klingman died of bladder cancer, in New York on November 15, 2011, at the age of 61.
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The Munchkins of Oz
Born on September 21, 1918 in Prakfalva, Hungary, Austria-Hungary.
Karl Slover was a Slovak-born American actor best-known as one of the munchkin actors in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Only three other munchkin performers remained alive at the time of Slover’s death. Diagnosed at an early age with pituitary dwarfism, Slover began appearing as midgets in films like The Terror of Tiny Town, Block-Heads, Bringing Up Baby, and They Gave Him a Gun.
Slover died on November 15, 2011, at age 93 in Dublin, Georgia.
Dulcie Gray
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DULCIE GRAY 8×10 B&W PHOTO
Born on November 20, 1915 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
Dulcie Gray born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist.
Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors’ residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.
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