Posts Tagged ‘best-known’

Rag Trade star Miriam Karlin dies

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Actress Miriam Karlin, best known for her role as shop steward Paddy in television sitcom The Rag Trade, dies in London aged 85.

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Grease Star Jeff Conaway Dead at 60

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in Grease and Taxi, died Friday due to complications from pneumonia, his sister told The Los Angeles Times. The 60-year-old actor was found unconscious in his home in California on May 10 and had been in a coma…

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Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown dies

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Actress and comic Janet Brown, who was best known for impersonating former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 87.

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Colditz TV actor Hardwicke dies

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Veteran actor Edward Hardwicke, best known for starring in the BBC drama Colditz and as Dr Watson in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, dies aged 78.

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Opera composer Catan dies aged 62

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Mexican composer Daniel Catan, best known for his operatic adaptation of Italian film Il Postino for the Los Angeles Opera, dies aged 62.

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US playwright Lanford Wilson dies

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, best known for such plays as Burn This and Fifth of July, dies aged 73.

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Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

US singer Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box’s 1989 hit Ride On Time, dies at the age of 64.

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Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

US singer Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box’s 1989 hit Ride On Time, dies at the age of 64.

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Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

US singer Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box’s 1989 hit Ride On Time, dies at the age of 64.

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Disco singer Holloway dies at 64

Batman actor Gough dies aged 94

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Michael Gough, best known for playing Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred, in Tim Burton and Joel Schmaucher’s Batman films dies, aged 94.

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Batman actor Gough dies aged 94

Batman actor Gough dies aged 94

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Michael Gough, best known for playing Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred, in Tim Burton and Joel Schmaucher’s Batman films dies, aged 94.

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Batman actor Gough dies aged 94

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Michael Gough, best known for playing Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred, in Tim Burton and Joel Schmaucher’s Batman films dies, aged 94.

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D.C.’s pot pioneers: Seeking a piece of the medical marijuana action

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Montgomery Blair Sibley might be best known as the lawyer who defended the “D.C. madam ,” the infamous escort service owner who claimed to attend to the needs of Washington’s elite.

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D.C.’s pot pioneers: Seeking a piece of the medical marijuana action

Doctor Who’s Brigadier dies at 81

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Veteran actor Nicholas Courtney, best known for playing Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on Doctor Who, dies at the age of 81.

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Jazz pianist Shearing dies at 91

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Anglo-American jazz pianist Sir George Shearing, best known for his song Lullaby of Birdland, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 91.

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