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Migos Rapper Takeoff Dies In Houston Shooting: He Was 28

Takeoff, a rapper with the Georgia-based hip-hop trio Migos whose string of hits earned them an appearance on a 2016 episode of the TV series Atlanta and two Grammy nominations, was shot and killed at a downtown Houston bowling alley and pool hall early Tuesday morning, local police have confirmed.

According to local news reports, Takeoff, whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, was at the 810 Billiards & Bowling establishment with his uncle and Migos bandmate Quavo (Quavious Keyate Marshall) when the shooting started around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. Police initially confirmed only that the two musicians were among the more than 40 people at the entertainment hall, and that one man had suffered a gunshot wound to the head or neck.

Houston police later confirmed that Takeoff had died at the scene. Two other people suffered apparently non-life-threatening injuries; Quavo was not injured.

Houston’s KTRK described the event as a private party with about 40 to 50 people in attendance was being held until 1 a.m., but that the party carried over until about 2 a.m.

Migos launched its career in in 2008 when the three rappers from Lawrenceville, Georgia — in addition to Takeoff and Quavo, the group included cousin Kiari Kendrell Cephus, who goes by the stage name Offset.

The trio released the single “Versace” in 2013, taken from their mixtape Y.R.N., and followed up with singles “Fight Night” (2014) and “Look at My Dab” (2015). They reached their widest success with four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 entries “Bad and Boujee” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (2016), “MotorSport” with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B (2017), “Stir Fry” (2018) and “Walk It Talk It” featuring Drake (2018).

The trio released its debut album Yung Rich Nation in 2015.

In 2016, the group made an appearance as a fictionalized version of itself in the first-season episode “Go For Broke” of the TV series Atlanta. Several albums followed, though most recently group member Offset had been performing solo material.

Houston police are investigating the shooting.

Patrick Haggerty Dies: First Openly Gay Country Singer Was 78

Lavender Country was the band’s name as well as the title of its debut album. The self-titled 1973 disc is the first known gay-themed album in country music history, according to Journal of Country Music. With tracks like “Come Out Singing” and “Cryin’ These C*cks***ing Tears,” it was funded and released by Gay Community Social Services of Seattle. Just 1,000 copies of the album were pressed for that first release.

The group’s original members were Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, singer and fiddler Eve Morris and guitarist Robert Hammerstrom. The band released just two studio albums, the second being 2022’s Blackberry Rose. Over the years, the membership varied, but Haggerty was always the frontman. The group performed at the first Seattle Pride in 1974 and subsequently at numerous pride and other LGBT events throughout the West. They broke up in 1976.

Lavender Country reunited briefly in 2000 after a prominent article on gay country musicians sparked renewed interest. That same year, the band released a five-song EP, Lavender Country Revisited, which featured rerecordings from the original album and two new compositions.

“Cryin’ These C*cks***ing Tears” was included in the 2012 compilation album Strong Love: Songs of Gay Liberation 1972-1981. The band’s debut album was rereleased on independent label Paradise of Bachelors in 2014, and the band did several reunion shows to support it.

He was also the subject of a 2016 documentary short that showed at SXSW, These C*cksucking Tears, directed by Dan Taberski.

Haggerty told Pitchfork earlier this year: “It’s really quite astonishing, to have come full circle and realize that my anti-fascist work and my art get to be combined into the same me. I get to go out on stage and be a screaming Marxist *****, use all of my artistry and hambonedness to do my life’s work. I get to be exactly who I am.”

Aaron Carter dies at 34. From that pop reality show and brother of Nick Carter.

^^Good catch.

Max Maven Dies: Mentalist And Magical Historian Was 71

Max Maven, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting through his work as a mentalist and magical historian, died at his home in Hollywood on November 1 after a two-year battle with glioblastoma. He was 71 and his death was confirmed by management.

Born Philip Goldstein on December 21, 1950 in Ithaca, NY, he created the character of Max Maven in the mid-‘70s, always dressing in black with a distinctive widow’s peak.

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Max Maven, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting through his work as a mentalist and magical historian, died at his home in Hollywood on November 1 after a two-year battle with glioblastoma. He was 71 and his death was confirmed by management.

Born Philip Goldstein on December 21, 1950 in Ithaca, NY, he created the character of Max Maven in the mid-‘70s, always dressing in black with a distinctive widow’s peak.
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Maven was honored many times over by magical societies around the world, including the Society of American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Most recently, FISM (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques) awarded him a lifetime achievement for his many decades supporting and contributing to the organization’s global growth and success.

In September, Maven was presented with a Masters Fellowship for lifetime achievement from The Academy of Magic Arts at the Magic Castle.

He appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs, including the lead role on Count DeClues’ Mystery Castle for the Fox network and guest-starring parts on Mork & Mindy, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and General Hospital. In 1998, Maven developed and starred in the Canadian series The MAXimum Dimension, an offbeat educational show for younger viewers involving recreational mathematics which aired for 26 episodes on the TVO Network.

Other credits include hosting eight network specials in Japan and creating a pair of specials in Thailand. In 1994 he hosted the 12-part British series Something Strange with Max Maven, a talk show exploring all aspects of the paranormal. The show set a ratings record on HTV and led to a second series the following year, The Max Mystery Show. He was prominently featured on the 1998 PBS documentary The Art of Magic, as well as The Secret World on The Learning Channel and the Masters of Illusion series for the PAX network.

His pioneering work in interactive broadcasting included creating the groundbreaking Max Maven’s Mindgames: The Videotape that Reads Your Mind for MCA. His games were a regular feature on the popular Best of Magic series for the ITV network in England, and his interactive illusions were included on The World’s Greatest Magic, NBC’s highest-rated special of 1994, for which he returned for subsequent editions in 1995 and 1997.

Max Maven’s Book of Fortunetelling was published by Prentice Hall in late 1992. He was a Senior Research Consultant to the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research in Michigan, and on the Board of Advisors of the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where his interactive material was featured in the exhibit Magic: The Science of Illusion that went on to tour museums across North America.

Maven is survived by his sisters, Sara Goldstein Gall and Naomi Goldstein. Gifts in his honor can be made to the Dai Vernon Foundation directed to junior magicians with a focus on grants and scholarships for qualified diversity applicants.

Mimi Parker Dies: Drummer And Vocalist For Slowcore Band Low Was 55

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Mimi Parker, best known as the drummer and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, died Saturday from ovarian cancer. She was 55 and her death was confirmed on the band’s official Twitter page.

“Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but she passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours,” read the post. “Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.”

Parker and husband Alan Sparhawk formed Low in 1993, supervising a rotating cast of musicians. Their debut record “I Could Live in Hope” arrived in 1994, and the band remained indie before moving to Sub Pop in 2004.

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Mimi Parker, best known as the drummer and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, died Saturday from ovarian cancer. She was 55 and her death was confirmed on the band’s official Twitter page.

“Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but she passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours,” read the post. “Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.”

Parker and husband Alan Sparhawk formed Low in 1993, supervising a rotating cast of musicians. Their debut record “I Could Live in Hope” arrived in 1994, and the band remained indie before moving to Sub Pop in 2004.
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Their last record was “Hey What” in 2021, their first as a duo.

Parker talked openly about her cancer treatments in the press. The group planned a 2023 tour, but canceled remaining dates in 2022 as Parker fought her condition.

“There have been difficult days, but your love has sustained us and will continue to lift us through this time,” Sparhawk said in a statement shared via Instagram. “Our hearts go out immediately to others in similar situations but who don’t have as many people sending such love and healing wishes. Find someone who is alone who needs a chat and give them your time and love. With tears, we say thank you and hope to see you soon.”

Low’s and Parker’s legacy includes 13 full-length studio albums.

Parker is survived by her husband and their two children, Hollis and Cyrus.

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Aaron Carter dies at 34. From that pop reality show and brother of Nick Carter.

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They say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead but it is also not good to mock them mercilessly with infinite level sarcasm.

Bill Treacher Dies: Original ‘EastEnders’ Cast Member Was 92

Bill Treacher, who played Arthur Fowler on the BBC’s long-running soap, EastEnders, has died. The actor was 92 and passed away on Saturday night after his health had been “declining for some time,” the family said in a statement.

Treacher was an original cast member of EastEnders set in the fictional London borough of Walford. He appeared in the first episode in 1985 and went on to play Fowler until 1996.

The character of Arthur was a family man who was often down on his luck, but had a special penchant for tending his allotment garden. Arthur was ultimately framed for a crime he did not commit and experienced a mental breakdown in prison, later dying of a brain hemorrhage suffered at his beloved allotment a few days after being released in 1996.

After his character was killed off, Treacher appeared in such series as The Bill and Casualty, as well as films including The Musketeer, Tale of the Mummy and George and the Dragon.

In a statement, the family said, “Bill was a brilliant actor and a wonderful husband and father, plus a very fine human being. He will be hugely missed.”

A post on the official EastEnders Facebook page said, “Bill created a much loved character in Arthur Fowler and, alongside Wendy Richard, they created an iconic family in the Fowlers who still remain at the heart of the show. Bill left EastEnders in 1996 so it is a true testament to both he, and the character that he created in Arthur, that he is still thought of so fondly. Bill will always be remembered for his charm, sense of humor – with a smile that lit up the room – and more importantly as a family man who was devoted to his wife and children. Bill will forever be held in great affection by everyone at EastEnders and all those that loved watching him. Rest in peace Bill and thank you for the memories.”

EastEnders actress Letitia Dean commented, “Bill really was the life and soul of the set, he was an absolute joy to be around and always had a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye. As an actor, Bill was meticulous and he went to great lengths to portray Arthur, from the smallest scenes to the heart breaking stories. Bill was an utter professional, a wonderful man and he will be greatly missed. I’m sending all my love to his family.”

Added, Adam Woodyatt, who portrayed Ian Beale, “So many memories of working with Bill, most of them involving him making us corpse (laugh). He would get this twinkle in his eye, you’d start laughing and he never got the blame. I used to love it when he was trying to remember his lines in rehearsal and he would just blunder and bluster until the correct word came out. My thoughts are with Kate, Jamie and Sophie at this sad time. Rest in peace Bill. I hope there are some roses up there for you to tend.”

Jeff Cook Dies: Co-Founder Of Superstar Country Band Alabama Was 73

Jeff Cook, the Grammy-winning founding guitarist, keyboardist and fiddler of Alabama — one of the most successful country groups of all time, with had 33 No. 1 country hits, including 21 in a row — died Tuesday at his home in Destin, FL, a band rep to the Associated Press. He was 73.

Cook had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.

Born on August 27, 1949, in Fort Payne, AL, Cook co-founded the band as in the early 1970s with his cousins — singer-guitarist Randy Owen and bassist Teddy Gentry — and drummer Bennett Vartanian. The group spent several summers playing in a Myrtle Beach, SC, bar called The Bowery and renamed Alabama in 1977, the group broke through with “My Home’s in Alabama,” which peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1980. That initial success launched the quartet to superstardom: Its next 21 singles all topped that that chart, save for a 1982 Christmas song.

Overall, the group with a Southern rock edge racked up more than 50 Top 10 country singles, including such enduring classics as “Song of the South” and “Jukebox in My Mind,” and 20 platinum albums from 1980-2011. They have sold nearly 50 million albums in the U.S., per the RIAA — which ranks the group as the 31st best-selling act of all time.

Leslie Phillips Dies: ‘Harry Potter’ And ’Carry On’ Actor Was 98

Phillips began acting back in the 1930s and went on to have a glittering stage and screen career, appearing in several of the British Carry On comedies of the 20th century and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films.

He was nominated for a BAFTA and won a British Independent Film Award for his role in Hanif Kurieshi’s Venus in 2006, in which he starred opposite Peter O’Toole, and received the London Critics Circle’s Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film in 2007.

Phillips also appeared with Angelina Jolie in 2001 feature Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Born in 1924, Phillips’ distinctive voice and roles as smooth upper-class British characters would make him famous in the UK and U.S., along with his saucy catchphrases “Ding Dong”, “Heee-llo” and “I Say” from films such as Carry On Teacher, Carry On Columbus and Carry On Nurse.

He made his film debut in 1938 in Lassie from Lancashire and went on to appear in hundreds of theatrical and TV roles, before taking on his role in the Harry Potter films toward the end of his career.

Phillips became an OBE in 1998 and was promoted to CBE in 2008.

Fred Hickman Dies: Sports Anchor For CNN & ESPN Was 66

Fred Hickman, one of CNN’s original on-air personalities as co-host of the network’s Sports Tonight, has died a Kissimmee, Florida, hospital following a battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was confirmed by CNN, which did not provide details.

“Hard to explain the magic of Fred Hickman and Nick Charles on CNN’s Sports Tonight in the 1980s,” tweeted MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “Two incredible broadcasters with beautiful chemistry. The program’s pacing was pitch perfect. Revolutionary.”

In addition to his pioneering work at CNN — he was present on the network’s first day on air, June 1, 1980 — Hickman was the first anchor of New York’s regional YES Network in 2002. In 2004, he moved over to ESPN, where he was a host of SportsCenter through 2008.

Hickman began his TV broadcast career in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, after college. After two years at Springfield’s WICS-TV, he joined CNN.

Hickman’s first gig with the fledgling network was as co-host, with Nick Charles, of the late-night Sports Tonight. He would spend most of the next 21 years with CNN and Turner Sports.

After CNN, Hickman joined YES Network, the regional sports network airing New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets games. As with CNN, YES was just getting started, with Hickman playing an early and central role as lead anchor for several years.

From YES he moved to ESPN, serving as a Sportscenter host and in other capacities from 2004 to 2008. After that, he joined Fox Sports South and Sport South Networks covering the Atlanta Braves through 2011. Most recently, he was an anchor and managing editor at Black News Channel.

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Budd Friedman Dies: The Improv Comedy Club Founder Was 90

Budd Friedman, the founder of The Improv comedy club, has died. Deadline confirmed his death with The Hollywood Improv. He was 90.

Friedman recently had a celebration for his 90th birthday at the Hollywood Improv. We hear there will be tributes to him tonight on-stage at the venue.

Friedman opened up the Improv in New York City in 1963 shortly after quitting his job as an advertising executive with the goal to become a theatrical producer. The coffee house attracted the likes of Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Albert Finney, Christopher Plummer and Jason Robard. Dustin Hoffman and Bette Midler, who were not widely known also performed at the club at the time.

Following the success of the NYC club, Friedman would later open one in L.A. in 1975.

Throughout his lifetime, Friedman had some acting credits like in Star 80 (1983), That’s Adequate (1989), Man on the Moon (1999), Mambo Café (2000), The Boneyard Collection (2008), Funny People (2009) and Louie (2012), to name a few.

After the news of his death, comedians like Whitney Cummings shared their thoughts.

“RIP Budd Friedman, one of the great champions of comedy and comedians. Just a monumental, incredible man. I will never stop performing at the Improv Comedy Clubs,” she tweeted.

Keith Levene Dies: Founding Member Of The Clash And PIL Was 65

Innovative guitarist Keith Levene, a cofounder of The Clash and later with Public Image Ltd., died Friday at 65 of liver cancer at his home in Norfolk, UK. Author/writer Adam Hammond confirmed the death.

“It is with great sadness I report that my close friend and legendary Public Image Limited guitarist Keith Levene passed away on Friday 11th November,” Hammond wrote. “There is no doubt that Keith was one of the most innovative, audacious and influential guitarists of all time.”

Hammond added, “Keith sought to create a new paradigm in music and with willing collaborators John Lydon and Jah Wobble succeeded in doing just that. His guitar work over the nine minutes of ‘ Theme’, the first track on the first PiL album, defined what alternative music should be.As well as helping to make PiL the most important band of the age, Keith also founded The Clash with Mick Jones and had a major influence on their early sound. So much of what we listen to today owes much to Keith’s work, some of it acknowledged, most of it not.”

Hammond concluded: “Our thoughts and love go out to his partner Kate, sister Jill and all of Keith’s family and friends. The world is a darker place without his genius. Mine will be darker without my mate.”

Levene started as a roadie for Yes in the early 1970s, then formed The Clash with Mick Jones in 1976. Together, they persuaded Joe Strummer to join them. Levene appeared at early shows with The Clash and contributed the song “What’s My Name” on the group’s 1977 debut.

But Levene left The Clash before they began recording music. He went on to form Public Image Ltd with John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) after the breakup of the Sex Pistols.

Their first album, Public Image: First Issue, reached No 22 on the charts in 1978, preceded by the single “Public Image,” which reached the Top 10. Their second album, 1979’s Metal Box, is regarded as a post-punk classic. He left PiL in 1983.

He is survived by Kate Ransford, who, with his sister, Jill Bennett, and her husband were with him in his final hours. No information on memorial plans was immediately available.

Robert Clary Dies: Holocaust Survivor & Actor Best Known As Corporal LeBeau On ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ Was 96

Clary was seen by generations on the CBS show, which was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. His Corporal LeBeau was a French POW and a member of an Allied sabotage unit operating inside the camp. Not only did Hogan’s Heroes have a long run from 1965-1971, but it played endlessly thereafter in syndication.

Clary was one of the last two surviving members of the show’s principal cast, the other being Kenneth Washington, who played Sergeant Richard Baker in the show’s final season.

He was also a survivor of the Holocaust. Born in Paris in 1926 as the youngest of 14 children in a Jewish family, he was sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth in Poland in 1942. Clary had sung on the radio before his imprisonment and, after he was transferred to Germany’s notorious Buchenwald camp, he sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday.

“Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that’s why I survived,” he later recalled. “I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with … I don’t know if I would have survived if I really knew that.”

A dozen members of Clary’s family were sent to Auschwitz and died during the war, including his parents. He was liberated from Buchenwald on April 1945 and subsequently learned that three of his siblings had remained in occupied France and survived.

Asked years later in a Television Academy Foundation interview if he brought any of those experiences with him to Hogan’s Heroes Clary answered, “No, because it was completely different. If I wanted to bring [to my] character what it was like it would have been desperate.”

He was also careful to distinguish between the show’s setting and his own experiences as a Jew interned at Nazi concentration camps. “Stalag 13 is not a concentration camp. It’s a POW camp, and that’s a world of difference. You never heard of a prisoner of war being gassed or hanged.”

After the war, Clary returned to singing, and had some success in both France and the United States. He moved stateside in 1949 where he befriended singer Edie Cantor, later marrying Cantor’s daughter Natalie Cantor Metzger.

He began appearing on shows such as The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Martha Raye Show and on Broadway.

After Hogan’s Heroes, Clary appeared on a number of soaps, including Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which traced a fictional plot to blow up the German airship. He played Joseph Späh, a real-life passenger on the airship’s final voyage.

Clary spent his later years touring Canada and the United States and speaking about the Holocaust.

Kymberly Herrin Dies: ‘Ghostbusters’ Actress Who Starred In Popular ZZ Top Video Was 65

Herrin was a model who covered more than a dozen magazines, including twice for Playboy, before being cast in the 1984 music video for ZZ Top’s “Legs.” The clip was a third in an over-the-top trilogy that also included “Gimme All Your Lovin'” and “Sharp Dressed Man” and had made the Texas boogie trio regulars of the then-nascent cable channel. Herrin told an interviewer that she replaced one of three women in the first two videos that the other two “didn’t like.” She was the woman in the bright-red top in “Legs,” which became the band’s biggest hit, reaching the Top 10 in the U.S. and several other countries.

She also appeared in ZZ Top’s 1985 video for “Sleeping Bag” — another Top 10 single — 1987 longform Kiss video Exposed and a David Lee Roth video in the mid-’80s.

Herrin also landed a pair of roles in popular 1984 films: Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters, which featured Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver, among others. Herrin has a brief but memorable role in the latter as was cast as the floating apparition who appeared above a sleeping Ackroyd’s bed and appeared to do more than float.

Born on October 2, 1957, in Lompoc, CA, Herrin also had small roles on the big screen in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Road House (1987) and Moving Violations (1985) and guested on the TV dramas Matt Houston and St. Elsewhere.

Kymberly is survived by her mother, Billie Dodson; her brother, Mark Herrin; along with several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

Jason David Frank, Original 'Power Rangers' Star, Dead at 49

It has been confirmed that longtime Houston Texas resident Jason David Frank died last night. It’s being reported that he committed suicide. His trainer and close friend Mike Bronzoulis here in Houston Texas confirmed the news.

Frank was born in Covina, Calif., and was originally the Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver, in the early 1990s. He then became the White Ranger. He portrayed the character in both television and film adaptations of the popular franchise.

Irene Cara, Oscar-winning singer dies at 63

Irene Cara, the Oscar-winning singer of the title tracks to "Fame" and "Flashdance," has died at age 63, her publicist announced late Friday.

Cara died in her Florida home of an undisclosed cause.

Her publicist confirmed her death to Eyewitness News.

"It is with profound sadness that on behalf of her family I announce the passing of Irene Cara," publicist Judith A. Moose wrote.

Cara was trained in music, dance and acting as a child and appeared on stage and on television, including appearances on PBS and on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," at a young age in the 1970s.

But she rocketed to fame when she was cast in the 1980 musical "Fame." She was initially cast as a dancer but then had the role of Coco Hernandez written for her and she sang the title track.

She was nominated for two Grammys after "Fame," for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Artist.

She then won a Grammy and an Academy Award in 1984 with the title track to "Flashdance," the film starring Jennifer Beals as an aspiring dancer.

She continued on with her dual career in acting and music, appearing in films such as "D.C. Cab" and "City Heat" and various television shows. She also performed in live theater and musicals.

"Irene's family has requested privacy as they process their grief," Moose wrote. "She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films."[/i]

Wilko Johnson Dies: Dr Feelgood Guitarist And ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Was 75

Wilko Johnson, the pub-rock guitarist who played executioner Ser Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones, died Monday. He was 75.

The musician, known for his energetic on-stage persona and influence on the punk rock movement, passed away at home, according to a message on his social media accounts posted today.

Johnson is best known for his long and storied music career but appeared in seasons one and two of HBO’s Game of Thrones, in which he played a mute knight who serves the king.

The talented musician was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2013 and was told he had less than a year to live. He decided against chemotherapy but a year later was declared cancer-free after a major operation to remove a huge tumor.

He is best known as the guitarist for British band Dr Feelgood, whose R&B-influenced pub-rock style relied heavily on Johnson’s choppy guitar stylings, who. They had a number one UK album in 1976, Stupidity, but Johnson left the band a year later. He would go on to join Ian Drury and the Blockheads and release his own material, including a 2014 album with The Who’s Roger Daltrey.

Albert Pyun Dies: Director Of ‘Cyborg‘ And ’Captain America’ Was 69

Pyun’s death was announced on social media by his wife, Cynthia Curnan, who said he died in Las Vegas. He had dementia and multiple sclerosis for years.

Born in Hawaii, Pyun was raised in a military family.

During his four-decade career, Pyun’s films included stars such as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert, and Burt Reynolds. He also worked with Snoop Dogg, Charlie Sheen, Ice-T, Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and Dennis Hopper.

Pyun directed more than 20 feature films in the 1990s, including , Captain America in 1990.