Pedro Armendariz, Jr.
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Las Mejores Rancheras 5 Peliculas
Born on April 6, 1940 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Pedro Armendariz, Jr. was a Mexican actor. Armendáriz appeared in over 100 movies. Among them are The Magnificent Seven Ride, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Matando Cabos and La ley de Herodes, and played Don Pedro in The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro. He also had small roles in Earthquake (1974), Tombstone and Amistad.
Pedro Armendariz, Jr. died on December 26, 2011 of cancer at age 71 in New York City in a Memorial Hospital.
Cheeta
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Me Cheeta: My StoryCheeta was a chimpanzee character appearing in numerous Hollywood Tarzan movies of the 1930s–1960s as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan.
Died December 24, 2011.
Joe Bodolai
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Kids In The Hall, The: Complete Series Megaset
Born on May 11, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Joe Bodolai was a comedy television and film writer and producer. He is best known for producing such television shows as It’s Only Rock & Roll, Comics! and The Kids in the Hall and helping to launch the careers of the young talent featured on those shows. He also co-wrote the first draft of the film Wayne’s World with Mike Myers.
Bodolai was found dead on December 26, 2011 in a Hollywood hotel room of an apparent suicide; he was 63.
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Jigsaw
Born as Dorcas Marie Nowell on April 7, 1925 in Old Westbury, New York.
Doe Avedon was a model and an actress in several feature movies. She played the recurring role of Diane Walker on the Big Town television series (1955–56).
Avedon died on December 18, 2011 (aged 86) in Encino, California.
Don Sharp
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Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)
Born on 19 April 1922 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Don Sharp was an Australian-born British film director. His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the 1960s, and included The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965).
Don sharp died on 18 December 2011 (aged 89).
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Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated
Born on 16 February 1941/2
Kim Jong-il was the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). He was the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party since 1948, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.
Kim Jong-il died on 17 December at 08:30 of a heart attack whilst travelling by train to an area outside Pyongyang.
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Born on 13 April 1949 in Portsmouth, England.
Christopher Hitchens nicknamed “Hitch”, (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world’s fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
Hitchens died on 15 December 2011 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.
Joe Simon
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JOE SIMON COMIC BOOK MAKERS HC
Born on October 11, 1913 in Rochester, New York.
Joe Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
Joe Simon died in New York City on December 14, 2011, after a brief illness.
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Born on May 5, 1933 in New York City.
Bert Schneider was an American movie producer, responsible for several important and topical films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Schneider died of natural causes aged 78 in Los Angeles on December 12, 2011.
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The Fugitive [HD]
Born on July 27, 1949 St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Susan Gordon was an American child actress who appeared in films and numerous of television programs such as The Twilight Zone, My Three Sons, and The Donna Reed Show.
Susan Gordon died on December 11, 2011 after a long battle with cancer.
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