Wednesday, October 28, 2026
She was nominated for “Breaking Away,” appeared in the original Broadway cast of “Company” and was seen on “Barney Miller.” She was 95.
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His rugged good looks, commanding presence and versatility led to key roles in “M*A*S*H” and “Steel Magnolias,” and he won an Emmy on “Picket Fences.”
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For six seasons, she was Kathy, a giggly tomboy whose father, played by Robert Young, called her Kitten. Her offscreen life, however, was harrowing.
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She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in once case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.
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She exuded earnest maternal wisdom and wistful contentment as a farm wife on "Lassie" and, later, as an interplanetary castaway on "Lost in Space."
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She brought an unconventional personality to scores of roles on television and in movies ranging from zany comedies like "Sleeper" to piercing dramas like "The Godfather."
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"Kiss my grits," her character, Flo, was known to say. But that high-profile role was just one facet of a long, busy stage and screen career.
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She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
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Known for his "heartbreak blue eyes," he starred in "Billy Budd" and "The Collector," and had a memorable role in "Superman" and "Superman II."
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A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with a brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
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An overnight star as Dr. Kildare in the 1960s, he achieved new acclaim two decades later as the omnipresent leading man of mini-series.
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He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the tall, self-assured, easygoing pal to Mr. Allen's insecure heroes.
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The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them "My Head Was a Sledgehammer" and "Permanent Brain Damage."
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She won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy nomination for her role on the show. She also earned a Tony Award for best actress in the play "Broadway Bound."
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The duo won an Oscar for "Annie Hall." Mr. Brickman went on to write Broadway shows, including "Jersey Boys," and make movies of his own.
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She was best known for starring in the 1958 screen version of "South Pacific." But her Hollywood career was brief, and she soon shifted her focus to Las Vegas and TV.
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She earned an extraordinary array of awards, from Oscars to Emmys to Tonys, but could still go almost everywhere unrecognized. Then came "Downton Abbey."
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Once labeled a "natural-born heavy," he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award.
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She first made her mark in the all-star 1944 movie "Hollywood Canteen" before finding acclaim on the musical stage. Movie and TV roles followed.
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She received a Golden Globe in 1954 as that year's rising star and appeared in movies alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman.
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In a trans-Atlantic career that endured for more than 60 years, she was also known for her role in the hit 1965 Disney movie "Mary Poppins."
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Her Tony-winning Broadway career included "Driving Miss Daisy," "On Golden Pond" and "The Heiress." On TV she had maternal roles in "Cheers" and "Sex and the City."
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She wrote 70 plays, won an Obie Award and wrote and directed "Viet Rock," a musical that predated "Hair" and is considered the first U.S. stage work to address the Vietnam War.
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As Carmine Ragusa on the hit sitcom, he got to show off his singing, tap-dancing and gymnastic skills " and to croon "Rags to Riches" many times.
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In a career that began in 1976, she won nine Tony Awards and helped bring "Equus," "Amadeus" and the work of Edward Albee to the New York stage.
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Best known as the gruff newsman he first played on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," he was also a busy character actor and a political activist.
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A veteran of the stage known for playing worldly wise and world-weary characters, she was cast in mature roles as early as her late 30s.
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Arthur Kopit, the avant-garde playwright who thrust off-Broadway into a new era with the absurdist satirical farce "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" a…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:51PM[SHARE]A three-time Tony nominee, he first became known for avant-garde works, many of them christened with rambling titles, that sparked spirited reactions.
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She preferred the stage, but she won praise for her work on television as the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy, and later as Anna Karenina.
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She appeared in early Ingmar Bergman classics like "The Seventh Seal," "Wild Strawberries" and "The Virgin Spring" and devoted much of her long career to the stage.
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Her character on the hit 1960s sitcom radiated all-American wholesomeness and a youthful charm. After her TV career cooled down, she focused on theater acting.
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Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for "Showboat," "The Music Man" and "Mary Poppins."
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
She first achieved acclaim on the stage. But she was best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Berta, Charlie Sheen's gruff housekeeper.
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He played Hamlet, the wizard Gandalf and Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." But he was probably best known for "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
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In a long career she was best known for an early role: Pussy Galore, who declared herself immune to Agent 007's charms before judo-flipping him.
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Mr. Blum, who died of coronavirus complications, was also seen on Broadway; in "Crocodile Dundee" and other movies; and on numerous television shows.
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She went from being "Broadway's hottest producer" to "one of the cleverest and most successful white-collar criminals in the history of this state."
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