Though best known for comedy, he also played serious roles, including a sinister sheriff in “Mississippi Burning.” The director Alan Rudolph cast him in nine films.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Mick Ralphs, of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Dies at 81
A guitarist and songwriter, he ditched glam rock at its peak and scored with meatier stadium-rock anthems like “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Making Love.”
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Mick Ralphs, of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Dies at 81
A guitarist and songwriter, he ditched glam rock at its peak and scored with meatier stadium-rock anthems like “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Making Love.”
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Marcia Resnick, Whose Camera Captured New York’s ‘Bad Boys’, Dies at 74
A conceptual artist, she used photography to make surrealistic images and then went on to document Manhattan’s downtown scene and its mostly male provocateurs.
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Bobby Sherman, Easygoing Teen Idol of the 1960s and ’70s, Dies at 81
First on TV and then on the pop charts, he became so popular so young, he once said, that he “didn’t really have time to have an ego.”
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Fred Smith, Billionaire Founder of FedEx, Is Dead at 80
His vision for how to ship packages overnight led to not just a new company, but also a new sector of the world economy and a now-familiar English verb.
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Lou Christie, ‘Lightnin’ Strikes’ Pop Crooner, Is Dead at 82
A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits.
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Kim Woodburn, British TV’s No-Nonsense ‘Queen of Clean,’ Dies at 83
She was a blunt and bossy domestic dominatrix on the series “How Clean Is Your House?” honing a persona as the rudest woman on reality television.
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William Cran, Documentarian of Global Issues, Dies at 79
He had a hand in more than 50 films, many for PBS’s “Frontline,” including a series on the English language and an exploration of J. Edgar Hoover’s secret life.
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Vicki Goldberg Dies at 88; Saw Photography Through a Literary Lens
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
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Dan Storper, Founder of Putumayo World Music Label, Dies at 74
His record label, Putumayo, gathered sounds from around the globe and pushed them into the mainstream, selling 35 million compilation CDs worldwide.
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David Hekili Kenui Bell, an Actor in ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ Dies at 46
Mr. Bell’s first role in a feature film was providing comic relief in the Disney hit.