Pete Postlethwaite: Actor, Dead at 64...

Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE
(7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011)




Pete Postlethwaite was an English stage, film and television actor.

After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, "Kobayashi", in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, In the Name of the Father, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, Inception, and in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.

Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Steven Spielberg called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world" after working with him on the The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year's Honours List.

Postlethwaite married his wife Jacqueline (Jackie) Morrish, a former BBC producer, in 2003. They have two children, both of whom were born in Shropshire: son William John, a drama student at LAMDA, and daughter Lily Kathleen.

Postlethwaite died after a long battle with cancer. The British actor died at a hospital in Shropshire, England.

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Leslie Nielsen: Actor, Dead at 84...

Leslie William Nielsen,OC
(11 February 1926 – 28 November 2010)





Leslie Nielsen was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Making his television debut in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films. Nielsen's lead roles in the films Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) received positive reviews as a serious actor, though he is primarily known for his comedic roles.

Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, his deadpan delivery in Airplane! (1980) marked a turning point in his career. Nielsen enjoyed further success with The Naked Gun film series (1988 – 1994), based on a short-lived television series Police Squad! in which he starred earlier. His portrayal of serious characters seemingly oblivious to (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave him a reputation as a comedian. In the final two decades of his career, Nielsen appeared in multiple spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases. Nielsen married four times and had two daughters from his second marriage. He was recognized with a variety of awards throughout his career, and was inducted into both the Canada and Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Nielsen married four times: Monica Boyer (1950–1956), Alisande Ullman (1958–1973), Brooks Oliver (1981–1983) and Barbaree Earl (2001–2010; his death). Nielsen had two daughters from his second marriage, Maura and Thea Nielsen.

In November 2010, Nielsen was admitted to a Fort Lauderdale, Florida hospital for pneumonia. On 28 November, Nielsen had died in his sleep, due to complications from pneumonia, surrounded by family and friends.

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Barbara Billingsley: Actress, Dead at 94...

Barbara Billingsley
(December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010)




Barbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice and stage actress. She gained prominence in the 1950s movie The Careless Years, acting opposite Natalie Trundy, followed by her best–known role, that of June Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963) and its sequel Still the Beaver (1985–1988, retitled in season two as The New Leave It to Beaver).

Billingsley was married three times. Her first husband was Glenn Billingsley, Sr., a restaurateur who was a nephew of Sherman Billingsley, the owner of the Stork Club. They had two sons, Drew and Glenn, Jr., who now own and operate Billingsley's Steak House in West Los Angeles, California. Her second marriage was to Roy Kellino, a British-born movie director who had previously been married to British actress Pamela Mason. He and Billingsley were married from 1953 until his death. Her third husband was Dr. William S. Mortensen (1907–1981), whom she married in 1959. By this marriage, she had stepchildren.

Billingsley died of polymyalgia at her home in Santa Monica, California. She is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

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Tom Bosley: Actor, Dead at 83...

Thomas Edward "Tom" Bosley
(October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010)




Tom Bosley was an American actor, best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days. Additionally, he appeared on the series Murder, She Wrote and Father Dowling Mysteries, and originated the title role of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Fiorello!, earning the 1960 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical.

In Hollywood, Bosley found steady work appearing in the occasional movie and as a regular on weekly TV shows starring Debbie Reynolds, Dean Martin and others. During the 1990s, Bosley toured in Beauty and the Beast and Show Boat, playing Captain Andy in the latter.

Bosley made only a handful of theatrical movies. Among them: "Love With the Proper Stranger," "Divorce American Style," "The Secret War of Henry Frigg," "Yours, Mine and Ours."

Bosley married dancer Jean Eliot in 1962 and the couple had one child, Amy. Two years after his wife's death in 1978, Bosley married actress-producer Patricia Carr, who had three daughters from a previous marriage.

Bosley died of heart failure at a hospital near his home in Palm Springs, California. His agent, Sheryl Abrams, said Bosley had been battling lung cancer.

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Norman Wisdom: Actor, Comedian, Dead at 95...

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE

(4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010)

Norman Wisdom was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".

He later forged a career on Broadway and as a television actor, winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981. He was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man.

Norman Wisdom’s first marriage, to Doreen, was a wartime romance, and was quickly dissolved. In 1947 he married Freda Simpson, with whom he had a son and a daughter. That marriage was dissolved in 1969.

Six months prior to his death, Wisdom suffered a series of strokes causing a decline in his physical and mental health. He died at Abbotswood nursing home on the Isle of Man. He is survived by his two children, Nick and Jacqui.

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Tony Curtis: Actor, Dead at 85...

Tony Curtis

(June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)

Tony Curtis was an American film actor. He was one of Hollywood's last matinee idols; the product of a classic success story. He was born Bernie Schwartz, the son of an impoverished Hungarian immigrant, rose from a New York ghetto to enjoy fame and stardom that was largely unparalleled for much of the 1950s and 1960s.

He played a variety of roles, from light comedy, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot, to serious dramatic roles, such as an escaped convict in The Defiant Ones, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. From 1949, he appeared in more than 100 films and made frequent television appearances.

Towards the latter part of his life, Curtis increasingly devoted himself to his painting, claiming Magritte and Matisse as influences. His autobiography, American Prince: A Memoir, appeared in 2008.

Curtis married six times; his last wife, Jill Vandenburg Curtis, more than four decades his junior, survives him. One of his sons, Nicholas, predeceased him in 1994 after overdosing on heroin aged 23, a blow from which Curtis said he never recovered. The actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis is his daughter by Janet Leigh.

Jamie Lee Curtis confirmed that her father died in bed at his Las Vegas home, of an apparent cardiac arrest.

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FRIEL Life Remembered: Bill Owen...

William John Owen Rowbotham, MBE, better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. He was born in London on March 14, 1914 and died in Westminster, London on July 12, 1999.

Owen was a squat, square-chinned, wide-eyed and pugnacious exponent of outspoken cockney comedy and wary northern humour in scores of films and plays for more than half a century.

The character for which Owen will be best remembered was first seen on British television in 1973 and endured through the 1980s and 1990s - that of the scruffy, cheerful, woolly-hatted vulgarian named Compo in Roy Clarke's series, Last of the Summer Wine.

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Dennis Hopper: Actor, Dead at 74...

Dennis Lee Hopper
(May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010)



Dennis Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

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FRIEL Life Remembered: Dean Martin...

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor and comedian. He was born in Ohio on June 7, 1917 and died at his home on Christmas morning, December 25, 1995. The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor.

Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". He was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.

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Gary Coleman: Actor, Dead at 42...

Gary Wayne Coleman
(February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010)



Gary Coleman was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986) and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as "one of television's most promising stars." After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman struggled financially later in life. In 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business adviser over misappropriation of his assets.

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FRIEL Life Remembered: John Wayne...

John Wayne, born Marion Robert Morrison was an American film actor, director and producer. He was born in Winterset, Iowa on May 26, 1907 and died at the UCLA Cancer Center, Califonia on June 11, 1979.

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John Forsythe: Actor, Dead at 92...

John Lincoln Freund
(January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010)



John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund in New Jersey, was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the 1970s crime drama Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and as ruthless and beloved patriarch Blake Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989). He hosted World of Survival during the 1970s.

Forsythe was briefly married (1938-40) to Parker McCormick, with whom he had a son. Three years after their divorce, he married Julie Warren. They had two daughters and were together, for more than 50 years, until her death in 1994. Nicole Carter became his third wife in 2002.

Forsythe is survived by his third wife Nicole Carter. He is also survived by his son, Dall; his daughters, Page Courtemanche and Brooke Forsythe; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Forsythe died at his home in Santa Ynez, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia. He was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006.


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Robert Culp: Actor, Dead at 79...

Robert Martin Culp
(August 16, 1930 – March 24, 2010)




Robert Culp was an American actor and scriptwriter, perhaps best known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965-1968), the espionage series, where he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents.

In his first movie role Culp played one of John Kennedy's crew in PT 109.

His first starring TV series, Trackdown (1957-1959) was a Western based partly on files of the Texas Rangers. In the 1980s, he starred as an FBI agent in the fantasy The Greatest American Hero.

He remained active in movies and TV. Among his notable later performances was as a U.S. president in 1993's The Pelican Brief. More recently, he also had a recurring role in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and appeared in such shows as Robot Chicken, Chicago Hope and an episode of Cosby.

Culp was married five times, to Nancy Ashe, Elayne Wilner, France Nuyen, Sheila Sullivan and Candace Faulkner. He had four children with Ashe and one with Faulkner.

Mr. Culp’s agent, Hillard Elkins, told The A.P. that the actor died after collapsing on a sidewalk outside his home in Hollywood. The police say he hit his head while on a walk and was pronounced dead after arriving at a hospital.

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Peter Graves: Actor, Dead at 83...

Peter Aurness
(March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010)



Peter Graves, born Peter Aurness, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973.

Graves was born in Minnesota Graves and graduated from High School in 1944, and spent two years in the United States Army Air Force near the end of World War II.

Graves appeared in more than seventy films, TV shows and TV movies. His brother is actor James Arness.

Graves was a devout Christian. He was married to Joan Endress from 1950 until his death. They had three daughters: Kelly Jean, Claudia King and Amanda Lee, all of whom survive him. Graves had six grandchildren.

Graves died of a heart attack, four days prior to his 84th birthday.

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Pernell Roberts: Actor, Dead at 81...

Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr.
(May 18, 1928 – January 24, 2010)






Pernell Roberts was an American stage, movie and television actor as well as singer. In addition to guest starring in over 60 television series, he was widely known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza, a role he played from 1959 to 1965 — and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986).

He was also widely known for his life-long activism, which included participation in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and pressuring NBC to refrain from hiring whites to portray minority characters.

Roberts was born in Waycross, Georgia, the only child of Pernell Elvin Roberts, Sr. and Minnie (Betty) Myrtle Morgan Roberts. During his high school years, he played the horn, acted in school and church plays and sang in local USO shows — pursuing a wide range of occupations before pursuing acting. He attended, but did not graduate from, Georgia Tech. While serving for two years in the United States Marine Corps, he participated in the Marine Corps Band. He subsequently attended the University of Maryland, also without graduating.

Roberts moved to Washington D.C. in 1950. He eventually decided to give acting a chance and supported himself as a butcher, forest ranger, and railroad riveter during the lean years while pursuing his craft.

On stage from the early 1950s, he gained experience in such productions as The Adding Machine, The Firebrand and Faith of Our Fathers before spending a couple of years performing the classics with the renowned Arena Stage Company in Washington, DC. Productions there included The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio), The Playboy of the Western World, The Glass Menagerie, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Twelfth Night. He made his Broadway debut in 1955 with Tonight in Samarkind and that same year won the "Best Actor" Drama Desk Award for his off-Broadway performance as Macbeth, which was immediately followed by Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio. Other Broadway plays include The Lovers (1956) with Joanne Woodward, A Clearing in the Woods (1957) with Kim Stanley, a return to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1957) and The Duchess of Malfi (1957). He returned to Broadway fifteen years later as the title role opposite Ingrid Bergman in Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1972).

Pernell then headed for Hollywood and found minor roles in films before landing the pivotal role of Ben Cartwright's oldest and best-educated son Adam in the Bonanza (1959) series in 1959. The series became the second longest-running TV western (after Gunsmoke) and the first to be filmed in color.

Many of the years after Bonanza were rocky for Roberts. He never found a solid footing in films with roles in rugged, foreign films such as Tibetana (1970) and Four Rode Out (1970), making little impression.

In 1979 he finally won another long-running series role (and an Emmy nomination) as Trapper John, M.D. (1979) in which he recreated the Wayne Rogers TV M*A*S*H (1972) role. Pernell was now heavier, bearded and pretty close to bald at this juncture. The medical drama co-starring Gregory Harrison ran seven seasons.

Retiring in the late 1990s, Roberts was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. Roberts died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Malibu, California, survived by his fourth wife Eleanor Criswell.

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Ian Carmichael: Actor, Dead at 89...

Ian Carmichael, OBE
(18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010)



Ian Carmichael was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.

Carmichael was born in Hull, Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School. He was not academically inclined, preferring to lead the local dance band until the stage took his fancy and he studied for a spell at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his stage debut as a robot at the People's Palace in Mile End, East London in 1939. With the outbreak of World War II his acting career was interrupted by service with the Royal Armoured Corps, as a commissioned officer.

He portrayed serious characters in Betrayed (1954), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story (1955), but he made his name playing in a series of films for the Boulting Brothers, including Private's Progress (1956), Brothers in Law (1957) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), as well as similar films for other producers, for example School for Scoundrels (1960). He also appeared in the "Pride" segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971).

During the 1960s and 1970s, he was successful on television, including the sitcom, Bachelor Father, based on the story of a real-life bachelor who took on several foster children. But it is probably his portrayals on television of PG Wodehouse's dithering Bertie Wooster and Dorothy L Sayers's elegant Lord Peter Wimsey which underlined his gifts as an exponent of the light English comedy of manners to greatest effect. Carmichael continued to act until shortly before his death.

Ian Carmichael was married twice. His first wife was Jean Pyman (Pym) McLean (1943–1983, until her death). They had two daughters, Lee and Sally. He married Kate Fenton, novelist in 1992. He had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren

Ian Carmichael died at his home in the Esk Valley on the North York Moors, England. According to his wife, Kate, he had fallen ill over Christmas.

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Edward Woodward: Actor, Dead at 79...

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE
(1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009)



Edward Woodward was an English actor and singer.

Originally a Shakespearean stage actor, he was best known for his roles in the 1960s-1970s television spy series Callan, the 1973 film The Wicker Man, the 1980 Australian biographical film drama Breaker Morant and his lead role in the 1980s American television series The Equalizer.

Woodward was seen in EastEnders earlier this year, playing the role of Tommy Clifford.

The actor was a BAFTA award winner for 'Callan', a Golden Globe award winner for 'The Equalizer' and a News and Documentary Emmy award winner for 'Remembering World War II'.

Woodward had a fine tenor voice, appearing on a number of occasions in The Good Old Days and making a dozen LPs. He also recorded three albums of poetry, capitalising on the reputation he had forged at Stratford as a lyrical speaker of verse.

Woodward died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. He had lived in Hawker's Cove, Cornwall, near Padstow and had been suffering from various illnesses, including pneumonia.

Woodward married first, in 1952, Venetia Mary Collett, with whom he had two sons and a daughter, all of whom became successful actors. The marriage was dissolved in 1986, and he married secondly, in 1987, Michele Dotrice, daughter of the actor Roy Dotrice and best known for her role as Betty Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em; they had a daughter. Survivors include his wife and his children.

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FRIEL Life Remembered: Christopher Reeve...

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter that died on October 10, 2004, aged 52.

He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, including his notable motion picture portrayal of the fictional character Superman.

On May 27, 1995 Reeve became a quadriplegic after being thrown from his horse in an eventing competition in Virginia. He required a wheelchair and breathing apparatus for the rest of his life. He lobbied on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries, and for human embryonic stem cell research afterward. He founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation and co-founded the Reeve-Irvine Research Center.

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Patrick Swayze, Actor, Dead at 57...

Patrick Wayne Swayze
(August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009)




Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best-known for his roles as romantic leading men in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991.

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born in Houston, Texas, where his mother, Patsy, ran a dance school. At his primary school and Waltrip High School in the city, Patrick was teased for being a sissy when he made his way to dance lessons.

After school, Swayze went to New York to train as a dancer at Harkness Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. His first professional engagement was with Disney on Parade in 1978, and soon afterwards he joined the Broadway cast of the musical Grease.

His first film was the forgettable Skatetown, USA (1979), an attempt to cash in on the roller-disco craze, in which Swayze played Ace, and he had a number of minor roles in television, including a part in an episode of M*A*S*H.

In 1984's Red Dawn, Swayze took the lead as Jed, the head of a gang of teenagers who turn themselves into guerrilla fighters after a Russian invasion of America. The film, a kind of advertisement for the right to bear arms, was cited by The Guinness Book of Records as containing the greatest number of acts of violence in any movie.

After Grandview, USA (1984), a dull comedy drama in which he played a driver in a demolition derby, Swayze appeared the following year in the television miniseries North and South, a civil war drama in which he gave one of his better performances.

Youngblood (1986) was a dire ice hockey movie in which he appeared with Rob Lowe and Keanu Reeves. In Road House (1989), Swayze plays a philosophy graduate turned bouncer who manages to transform the fortunes of a seedy roadside bar. The film's obvious badness ensured it a kind of cult following.

After Ghost Swayze played a Zen thug in Point Break (1991), an action thriller about surfing bank-robbers, which also starred Keanu Reeves. This was perhaps the most successful period of his career. But though Swayze continued to act as steadily, almost all his subsequent films fared badly at the box office.

He played a doctor in India in City of Joy (1992), and a positively alarming drag queen in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar (1995), though he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.

In 1996 Swayze fell from a horse and hit a tree. Both his legs were broken, and he suffered detached tendons in his shoulder. Swayze recovered, but took little work until 2000, when he co-starred in Waking Up in Reno with Billy Bob Thornton and Charlize Theron, and in Forever Lulu with Melanie Griffith.

In 2001 he had a part in the surreal Donny Darko, and in 2004 took a cameo (as a dance instructor) in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a lacklustre sequel. That year he also played Allan Quatermain in a television film of King Solomon's Mines.

In 2003 he appeared in the Broadway production of Chicago, and in 2006 he took on the role of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls in the West End.

His most recent films included The Fox and the Hound 2, in which he provided the voice of an Alpine Dachsbracke; a comedy called Christmas in Wonderland; and Powder Blue, in which he plays the owner of a strip club in Los Angeles.

Most recently, Swayze starred in A&E network's "The Beast," which debuted in January. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late January 2008, and underwent chemotherapy and other treatments at the Stanford University Medical Center. He agreed to take the starring role of an undercover FBI agent before his diagnosis. The network agreed to shoot an entire season of the show after Swayze responded well to cancer treatment.

"The Beast" was canceled in June because of Swayze's illness, after doctors told him the cancer had spread to his liver.

Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa shooting King Solomon's Mines. Swayze was married since 1975 to Lisa Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. Lisa and Patrick did not have any children.

Swayze's publicist, Annett Wolf, confirmed that he had died of pancreatic cancer. Swayze died with his family at his side, twenty months after being diagnosed.

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Karl Malden, Actor, Dead at 97...

Karl Malden
(born Mladen George Sekulovich March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009)

Karl Malden was an Academy Award winning American actor. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront" and "One-Eyed Jacks". He won the best supporting actor Oscar for "Streetcar," and was nominated for his role as a priest crusading against crooked union bosses in "On the Waterfront." Among other notable film roles are Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll, Zebulon Prescott in How the West Was Won and General Omar Bradley in Patton.

His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the police crime drama, "The Streets of San Francisco", starring along side Michael Douglas from 1972-77. He was nominated four times for Emmys for the show.

Malden died at his home on July 1, 2009 from what it appears to be natural causes.

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