Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,†an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor†films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,†has died. He was 58.
Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press that he died Sunday but had no other details to share on Monday.
Stevenson was born in Lisburn in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British television, he made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.†In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur†as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone."
Though “Punisher†was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three "Thor†films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent†trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation†and “The Transporter: Refueled.â€
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A looming presence at 6-foot-4, Stevenson, who played his share of soldiers past and present, once said in an interview, “I guess I'm an old warrior at heart.â€
On the small screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome,†a role that really got his career going in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The popular series ran from 2005 to 2007.
“That was one of the major years of my life,†Stevenson said in an interview. “It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The job’s enough.â€
In the Variety review of “Rome,†Brian Lowery wrote that “the imposing Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-too-bright warrior — a force of nature who, despite his excesses, somehow keeps landing on his feet."
He was Blackbeard in the Starz series “Black Sails," Commander Jack Swinburne in the German television series “Das Boot," and Othere on “Vikings.â€
Stevenson also did voice work in “Star Wars Rebels†and “The Clone Wars,†as Gar Saxon, and has a role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series “Ahsoka," in which he plays a bad guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is expected on Disney+ in August.
In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson said his acting idols were, “The likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman.â€
“Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that caliber,†Stevenson said. “It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with.â€
Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, who he met while working on “Rome.â€
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Harry Belafonte
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Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, died April 25, 2023. He was 96. With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer; many still know him for his signature hit “Banana Boat Song (Day-O),†and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.†But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth.â€
Raquel Welch
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Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.†would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, died Feb. 15, 2023. She was 82. Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966's campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,†despite having a grand total of three lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public.
David Crosby
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David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, died Jan. 18, 2023, at age 81. While he only wrote a handful of widely known songs, the witty and ever opinionated Crosby was on the front lines of the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ’70s — whether triumphing with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young on stage at Woodstock, testifying on behalf of a hirsute generation in his anthem “Almost Cut My Hair†or mourning the assassination of Robert Kennedy in “Long Time Gone.â€
Lance Reddick
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Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,†"Fringe†and the "John Wick†franchise, died March 17, 2023. He was 60. Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall, taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series “The Wire,†where his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.
Richard Belzer
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Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and “Law & Order: SVU,†died Feb. 19, 2023. He was 78. For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on “30 Rock†and “Arrested Development†— Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide†and last played him in 2016 on “Law & Order: SVU.â€
Cindy Williams
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Cindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the beloved sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died Jan. 25, 2023. She was 75. Williams played the straitlaced Shirley Feeney to Marshall's more libertine Laverne DeFazio on the show about a pair of blue-collar roommates who toiled on the assembly line of a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s and 1960s.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father’s legacy, died Jan. 12, 2023. She was 54. Presley shared her father's brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown†and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died May 1, 2023. He was 84. One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain†and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Jeff Beck
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Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 78. Beck was among the rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ’60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. Beck won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — once with the Yardbirds in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2009.
Bobby Caldwell
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Bobby Caldwell, a soulful R&B singer and songwriter who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won't Do for Love†and a voice and musical style adored by generations of his fellow artists, died March 14, 2023. He was 71. The smooth soul jam “What You Won't Do for Love†went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on what was then called the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.
Gary Rossington
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Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died March 5, 2023, at age 71. According to Rolling Stone, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of opposing player Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins gathered that afternoon at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.â€
Wayne Shorter
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Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, died March 2, 2023. He was 89.
Jerry Springer
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Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died April 27, 2023, at age 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show†was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.
Robert Blake
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Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died March 9, 2023, at age 89. Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, "Baretta," never recovered from the long ordeal which began with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Studio City restaurant on May 4, 2001. The story of their strange marriage, the child it produced and its violent end was a Hollywood tragedy played out in court. Blake portrayed real-life murderer Perry Smith in the movie of Truman Capote's true crime best seller "In Cold Blood."
Willis Reed
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Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died March 21, 2023. He was 80.
Michael Lerner
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Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,†the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights†and an angry publishing executive in “Elf†died April 8, 2023. He was 81.
Tom Sizemore
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Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan†actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died March3, 2023, at age 61. Sizemore became a star with acclaimed appearances in “Natural Born Killers†and the cult-classic crime thriller “Heat.â€
Charles Kimbrough
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Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,†died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 86. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown" between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.
Chaim Topol
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Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,†died March 8, 2023, at age 87. A recipient of two Golden Globe awards and nominee for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award, Topol long has ranked among Israel’s most decorated actors.
Len Goodman
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Len Goodman, a long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars†and “Strictly Come Dancing" who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the Atlantic, died April 22, 2023. He was 78.
Tim McCarver
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Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Feb. 16, 2023. He was 81.
Billy Packer
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Billy Packer (left), an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Jan. 26, 2023. He was 82. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008. He received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Analyst in 1993.Â
Barry Humphries
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Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died April 22, 2023. He was 89.
Burt Bacharach
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Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and dozens of other hits, died Feb. 8, 2023. The Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning composer was 94. Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful of others rivaled his genius for instantly catchy songs that remained performed, played and hummed long after they were written. He had a run of top 10 hits from the 1950s into the 21st century, and his music was heard everywhere from movie soundtracks and radios to home stereo systems and iPods, whether “Alfie†and “I Say a Little Prayer†or “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again†and “This Guy’s in Love with You.â€
Stella Stevens
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Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,†died Feb. 17, 2023. She was 84. She was a prolific actor in television and film up through the 1990s, officially retiring in 2010.
Annie Wersching
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Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series “24" and providing the voice for Tess in the video game “The Last of Us,†died Jan. 29, 2023. She was 45. Her first credit was in “Star Trek: Enterprise,†and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of “24,†“Bosch," “The Vampire Diaries,†Marvel's “Runaways,†“The Rookie" and, most recently, the second season of “Star Trek: Picard†as the Borg Queen.Â
Dave Hollis
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Dave Hollis, who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 47. Hollis worked for Disney for 17 years and had been head of distribution for the company for seven years when he left in 2018 to join his wife's venture. The parents of four moved from Los Angeles to the Austin area, collaborated on livestreams, podcasts and organized life-affirming conferences. In their podcast, “Rise Together,†they focused on marriage.
David Jude Jolicoeur
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David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 54. De La Soul’s debut studio album “3 Feet High and Rising,†produced by Prince Paul, was released in 1989 by Tommy Boy Records and praised for being a more light-hearted and positive counterpart to more charged rap offerings. De La Soul signaled the beginning of alternative hip-hop.Â
Barrett Strong
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Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)†and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,†“War†and “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone,†died Jan. 29, 2023. He was 81.Â
Lloyd Morrisett
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Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children's education TV series “Sesame Street,†which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, died Jan. 15, 2023. He was 93.Â
Robbie Knievel
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Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father — including at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later — died Jan. 13, 2023. He was 60.
Gina Lollobrigida
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Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world†after the title of one of her movies, died Jan. 16, 2023. She was 95. Besides “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman†in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,†with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;†“Beat the Devil,†a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.â€
Lynette Hardaway ("Diamond")
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Lynette Hardaway, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, died Jan. 9, 2023. She was 51. Hardaway (pictured at left), known by the moniker “Diamond,†carved out a unique role as a Black woman who loudly backed Trump and right-wing policies.
Adam Rich
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Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s little brother†on “Eight is Enough,†died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 54. Rich had a limited acting career after starring at age 8 as Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981.
Bobby Hull
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Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull, who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. Hull was 84. The two-time MVP was one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, leading the league in goals seven times. Nicknamed “The Golden Jet†for his speed and blond hair, he posted 13 consecutive seasons with 30 goals or more from 1959-72.
Charles White
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Charles White, the Southern California tailback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979, died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 64. A two-time All-American and Los Angeles native, White won a national title in 1978 before claiming the Heisman in the following season, when he captained the Trojans and led the nation in yards rushing.
Jerry Richardson
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Jerry Richardson, the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, died March 1, 2023. He was 86.
Sister André
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Lucile Randon, a French nun known as Sister André and believed to be the world's oldest person, died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118. She was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.
Tatjana Patitz
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Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael's “Freedom! '90†music video, died at age 56.
Russell Banks
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Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction†and “The Sweet Hereafter†in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 82.
Cardinal George Pell
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Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia on child sex abuse charges before his convictions were overturned, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81.
Ken Block
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Ken Block, a motorsports icon known for his stunt driving and for co-founding the action sports apparel brand DC Shoes, died Jan. 2, 2023, in a snowmobiling accident near his home in Utah. Block rose to fame as a rally car driver and in 2005 was awarded Rally America's Rookie of the Year honors.
Walter Cunningham
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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Jan. 3, 2023. He was 90. Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.
Anton Walkes
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Professional soccer player Anton Walkes died Jan. 18, 2023, from injuries he sustained in a boat crash off the coast of Miami. He was 25. Walkes began his career with English Premier League club Tottenham and also played for Portsmouth before signing with Atlanta United in MLS. He joined Charlotte for the club’s debut MLS season in 2022.
Pat Schroeder
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Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died March 13, 2023. She was 82. Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government. She was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver.
Seymour Stein
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Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died April 2, 2023, at age 80. Stein helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005.
Klaus Teuber
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Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, died April 1, 2023. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.
Ginnie Newhart
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Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart†series, died April 23, 2023. She was 82.
Vida Blue
![Vida Blue](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=200%2C150 200w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=225%2C168 225w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=400%2C299 400w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=540%2C404 540w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=640%2C479 640w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=750%2C561 750w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=990%2C741 990w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=1035%2C774 1035w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C898 1200w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=1333%2C997 1333w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=1476%2C1104 1476w, https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/morganton.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/f5/0f5e47b9-8535-57df-922c-01dbda1b0722/645a460e4d477.image.jpg?resize=1664%2C1245 2008w)
Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died May 6, 2023. He was 73.
Martin Amis
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British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, died May 20, 2023. He was 73. Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. Among his best-known works were “Money,†a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information†and “London Fields,†along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience."
Doyle Brunson
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Doyle Brunson, one of the most influential poker players of all time and a two-time world champion, died May 14, 2023. He was 89. Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker and also known as “Texas Dolly,†won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments — second only to Phil Hellmuth's 16. He also captured world championships in 1976 and 1977 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.
Hodding Carter III
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Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, died May 11, 2023. He was 88.
Jacklyn Zeman
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Jacklyn Zeman, who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,†died May 10, 2023. She was 70. Zeman joined “General Hospital†in 1977 as Barbara Jean, who went by Bobbie, and was the feisty younger sister of Anthony Geary’s Luke Spencer.
Jim Brown
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, died May 18, 2023. He was 87. One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday†and “The Dirty Dozen.†When he finished playing, Brown became a prominent leader in the Black power movement during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Tina Turner
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Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," died May 24, 2023, at 83. Few stars traveled so far — she was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich — and overcame so much. Her trademarks included a growling contralto that might smolder or explode, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021 ) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
Ray Stevenson
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Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,†an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor†films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,†died May 21, 2023. He was 58. He made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.†In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur†as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone." Though “Punisher†was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three "Thor†films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent†trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation†and “The Transporter: Refueled.â€
John Beasley
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John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood†and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died May 30, 2023. He was 79. Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film “Rudy†and a retired preacher in 1997's “The Apostle,†co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
Cynthia Weil
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Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and dozens of other hits, died June 1, 2023, at age 82.
Astrud Gilberto
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Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema†made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, died June 5, 2023, at age 83.
The Iron Sheik
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The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died June 7, 2023. He was 81. During his pro wrestling career, he donned curled boots and used the “Camel Clutch†as his finishing move during individual and tag team clashes in which he played the role of an anti-American heel for the WWF, which later became the WWE.
Pat Robertson
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Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, died June 8, 2023. He was 93. For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his “700 Club†television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.
Tori Bowie
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U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died May 2, 2023, from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4x100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
Ted Kaczynski
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Theodore “Ted†Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died June 10, 2023. He was 81. Branded the “Unabomber†by the FBI, Kaczynski died by suicide at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.
Treat Williams
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Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood†and the movie “Hair,†died June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont. He was 71. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical “Hair.â€
Silvio Berlusconi
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Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died June 12, 2023. He was 86. A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.
Daniel Ellsberg
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Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, died June 16, 2023. He was 92.
Sheldon Harnick
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Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Fiorello!" and "The Apple Tree," died June 23, 2023. He was 99.
John Goodenough
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John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, died June 25, 2023, at age 100.
Christine King Farris
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Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died June 29, 2023. She was 95. For decades after her brother's assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris' activism — and grief — was often behind the scenes.
Julian Sands
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Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and '90s including “A Room With a View†and “Leaving Las Vegas,†was found dead on a Southern California mountain in June 2023, five months after he disappeared while hiking. He was 65. Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.
Alan Arkin
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Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for "Little Miss Sunshine," has died. He was 89. A member of Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit "Little Miss Sunshine.â€