The ALL DEAD Club

TREAT WILLIAMS DEAD AT 71 After Motorcycle Accident

Treat Williams, whose career accomplishments include "Hair" and "Everwood" has died as the result of a motorcycle accident.

Williams' agent, Barry McPherson, tells People, "He was killed this afternoon. He was making a left or a right [and] a car cut him off. I'm just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented."

Williams' career spanned decades, with appearances on "Blue Bloods" as recent as this year. He appeared in nearly 100 episodes of "Everwood" in the early 2000s as Dr. Andrew Brown ... and played Berger in "Hair" in 1979.

Williams was a three-time Golden Globe nominee, for his work on "Hair," "Prince of the City" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." He also received a Best Actor Emmy nomination for his work in "The Late Shift" in 1996.

He is survived by wife Pam Van Sant and their two kids, Gill and Ellie.

^ I remember him from the Phantom Movie with Billy Zane & the movie Deep Rising.

Cormac McCarthy Dies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Of ‘No Country For Old Men,’ ‘The Road’ & ‘Blood Meridian’ Was 89

McCarthy is best known for books such as Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West; The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and No Country For Old Men, which was adapted into the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning film.

His other published works include The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of Dark, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses – which won the National Book Award – The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country were adapted for film by Billy Bob Thornton, John Hillcoat and Joel and Ethan Coen, respectively.

McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal that No Country for Old Men was originally a screenplay, but failed to gain traction in that form. “In fact, they said, ‘That will never work.’ Years later I got it out and turned it into a novel,” he recalled. The author later attended the Academy Awards with the Coens in 2008 where their take on the book won Best Adapted Screenplay. The Coens’ No Country won four Academy Awards total that year, including Best Picture.

Deadline last month exclusively reported that Hillcoat is set to direct Blood Meridian for New Regency. The sprawling novel is widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. Published in 1985, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is an epic tale of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion which brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of a 14-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. A central figure in the book is the enormous, pale, hairless Judge Holden, whom McCarthy described as a “grotesque patchwork of up-river Kurtz and Milton’s Satan.”

Literary critic Harold Bloom was among the book’s first proponents, calling it “sublime” and “worthy of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” William Dalrymple – and many others – have held Blood Meridian up as “the great American novel.” The New York Times and Bloom both described McCarthy’s prose in the book as “Faulknerian.” In fact, his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, won the William Faulkner Foundation Award. However, Blood Meridian’s sprawling, unorthodox nature led many to consider it unfilmable.

Among those who have attempted to adapt the book are Ridley Scott, William Monahan and James Franco. An adaptation of McCarthy’s Child of God was later directed by Franco and starred Tim Blake Nelson. Scott ended up directing McCarthy’s The Counselor in 2013, which was shot from McCarthy’s first original screenplay for the big screen.

The author and his son, John, are executive producers on the planned adaptation of Blood Meridian.

Notoriously press-shy, McCarthy granted few interviews. In 1992 he told The New York Times, “Of all the subjects I’m interested in, it would be extremely difficult to find one I wasn’t. Writing is way, way down at the bottom of the list.”

Oprah Winfrey chose McCarthy’s The Road as the April 2007 selection for her massively-popular Book Club. As a result, McCarthy agreed to his first television interview. In the conversation, which aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show, McCarthy told Winfrey that he did not know any writers and much prefers the company of scientists. He also spoke about how his son inspired the post apocalyptic father-son journey depicted in The Road.

McCarthy later adapted his play The Sunset Limited into a screenplay for Tommy Lee Jones to direct and exec produce. Jones starred in the 2011 HBO project, opposite Samuel L. Jackson.

John Romita Sr Dies: Legendary Marvel Artist, Co-Creator Of Mary Jane Watson & Wolverine, Was 93

Iconic comic book artist John Romita Sr, known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating such characters as Mary Jane Watson, Wolverine and the Punisher, has died. His son and fellow comic book artist, John Romita Jr, announced the news on social media saying his father passed away peacefully in his sleep on Monday June 12. He was 93.

Romita Sr was born in Brooklyn and began his comic book career in 1949 with Timely Comics (the precursor to Marvel Comics), meeting Stan Lee before being drafted into the army. In the 1950s he worked at rival DC Comics and in 1965 joined Marvel, initially drawing Daredevil comics. In 1966, he took over for Steve Ditko on The Amazing Spider-Man which was then Marvel’s second-biggest seller. “I was sort of counting the days until I could get back on Daredevil,” Romita Sr told Alter Ego in 2001.

“I really felt it was obvious that I couldn’t do Spider-Man as well as I could do Daredevil. I was amazed when Stan gave me Spider-Man to do. I felt he was desperate. So I did the book to help him out, hoping all the while that it would be temporary.” Ultimately, he co-created the character of Peter Parker’s love interest Mary Jane Watson and in 1973 was promoted to Art Director at Marvel.

His other contributions include designing or helping to design the Punisher, Wolverine, Luke Cage and Bullseye. He was also behind Monica Rambeau’s Captain Marvel debut in 1982. He went into semi-retirement in 1996.

In a 2002 interview, he said one of his greatest regrets was being born a bit too late to be part of the first generation of professional cartoonists. “I always felt that I became a follower of necessity. Because they had already done the ground rules. And I became a guy who was just following everybody else’s lead. I think I would have been more of a pioneer and more of a person in my own right rather than a follower. I think it stamped me forever. No matter what success I’ve had, I’ve always considered myself a guy who can improve on somebody else’s concepts. A writer and another artist can create something, and I can make it better… I don’t consider myself a creator. I’ve created a lot of stuff. But I don’t consider myself a real creator in a Jack Kirby sense. But I’ve always had the ability to improve on other people’s stories, other people’s characters. And I think that’s what’s made me a living for 50 years.”

His son, Romita Jr is also a respected, longtime Marvel artist known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man and Kickass.

Blackie Onassis Dies: Urge Overkill Drummer Played On Song Featured In ‘Pulp Fiction’

Blackie Onassis, the Urge Overkill drummer who played on the remake of “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” that was featured in Pulp Fiction and on the band’s 1993 hit “Sister Havana,” has died. His bandmates confirmed the news Wednesday but gave no details including his age or cause or date of death.

Born John Rowan, Onassis joined Chicago-based alt-rock trio Urge Overkill in the early 1990s and played with the group as they opened for Nirvana’s Nevermind tour in late 1991, which led to the band being signed by Geffen Records. Alongside singer-guitarist Nash Kato and Eddie “King” Roeser, he drummed and sang on three of the group’s ’90s albums: The Supersonic Storybook (1991), Saturation (1993) and Exit the Dragon (1995).

The latter two Geffen Records sets only dented the Billboard 200, but “Sister Havana” — a single from Saturation — reached the Top 10 of the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock tallies. Watch the rollicking song’s official video below.

But the group’s would come with their remake of a Top 10 Neil Diamond hit from 1967. Quentin Tarantino featured Urge Overkill’s take on “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” in his Palme d’Or-winning 1994 classic Pulp Fiction. The track played as Mia (Uma Thurman) sang and danced to it before overdosing by snorting heroin she found in Vincent’s (John Travolta) jacket.

The song was the lone single release from the film’s eclectic soundtrack, peaking at No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helping fuel the album to No. 21. The Pulp Fiction disc eventually was certified triple-platinum for sales of 3 million units. “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” reached the Top 25 in a few European countries including Iceland, where it hit No. 1.

Roeser left the group after the release of Exit the Dragon, leaving Urge Overkill as a duo. Around that time, Onassis was arrested for heroin possession, but the charges eventually were dropped.

The band took an extended break, and Kato released a solo disc in 2000 that featured about half of its songs co-penned with Onassis. Roeser returned in 2004, and Urge Overkill went on without Onassis.

Glenda Jackson Dies: Double Oscar-Winning British Actress Was 87

Jackson was perhaps best known for her two Oscar-winning performances in Ken Russell’s 1970’s pic Women in Love, a D. H. Lawrence adaptation, where she starred alongside Alan Bates and Oliver Reed and 1973’s A Touch of Class. Jackson also won a BAFTA Best Actress gong for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).

Jackson was born in 1936 in North West England. She studied at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and made her stage debut in a 1966 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Marat/Sade. Across her stage career, she received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for performances in classical productions such as Antony and Cleopatra (1979). She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women in 2018.

In 2016, she played King Lear in an acclaimed production mounted at London’s Old Vic. She played the role on Broadway in 2019.

Jackson’s onscreen credits are wide and distinct. Alongside her award-winning big screen turns in A Touch of Class and Women in Love, Jackson also had an extensive TV career. She played Queen Elizabeth I in the 1971 BBC series Elizabeth R. She received two Emmy noms for her performance. In 2019, she starred as a woman with dementia in the BBC drama Elizabeth Is Missing, for which she picked up a TV BAFTA.

In the early ’90s, Jackson left acting to take up a career in British politics. She entered the House of Commons after she was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election. The constituency was later re-named Hampstead and Kilburn. She served as a Junior Transport Minister from 1997 to 1999 in Tony Blair’s New Labour government. Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election and returned to acting.

In The Great Escaper, which will be her last onscreen performance, Jackson stars alongside Michael Caine in the story about British veteran Bernard Jordan’s escape from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.

In a statement this afternoon, Caine said: “Glenda was one of our greatest movie actresses. It was a privilege to work with her on The Great Escaper recently, our second film together. It was as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I shall miss her.”

Oliver Parker, the film’s director added: “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the news of Glenda’s passing. It was the privilege of a lifetime to work with her. She had such fierce intelligence, such passion, and fearlessness. It is hard to believe that it was less than a month ago that we screened the finished film for her and Michael – she was as feisty and vibrant as ever and we will treasure the memory of that emotional and happy day.”

Homer Jones Dies: NFL Star Wide Receiver Considered The Originator Of ‘The Spike’ After Touchdowns Was 82

Homer Jones, an electrifying wide receiver for the New York Giants who still holds the NFL record for career yards per reception at 22.3 yards, died Wednesday in Texas from lung cancer. He was 82.

Jones was the first player to “spike” the football after a touchdown. He reportedly did so after NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle threatened fines to players who threw the football into the stands.

Jones played college football and ran track at Texas Southern University and was drafted as the 278th pick in 1963 by the Houston Oilers. He was cut after a knee injury, but was picked up by the New York Giants. He went on to play seven years in the NFL, with the bulk of it with the Giants from 1964-69. Jones retired in 1971 after a season with the Cleveland Browns.

Teaming with New York Giants quarterback Fran Tarkenton, Jones became a fearsome weapon.

Jones had a career season in 1967, catching 49 passes for 1,209 yards and an average of 24.7 yards per reception. He also led the league in receiving touchdowns with 13 and was second in the league in combined rushing and receiving yards from scrimmage. Jones went to his first Pro Bowl that year and was named second-team All-Pro.

Brett Hadley Dies: ‘Young & The Restless’ Alum Was 92

Brett Hadley, best known for his longtime role as Genoa City police detective Carl Williams on The Young and the Restless, died Wednesday, according to Soap Opera Digest and his longtime friend, photographer Mary Ann Halpin, who shared the news on Facebook. Hadley was 92. A cause of death was not revealed.

Born on September 25, 1930, in Louisville, KY, Hadley studied drama at the University of New Mexico. He began working in television in the early 1970s, with guest roles on numerous series including Room 222, The F.B.I., Ironside, Lucas Tanner, The Waltons and Kojak, as well as a major recurring role on Marcus Welby, M.D.

However, it was his role as no-nonsense Genoa City police detective Carl Williams on The Young and the Restless for which he is best remembered. Hadley joined the daytime soap in 1980 and played the role until 1991, when Carl became an off-screen unseen character who was “always in the other room” or “had just gone to work.” Hadley re-emerged in 1998 when it was revealed that Carl had been beaten nearly to death and had amnesia. He had taken on a new life as Jim Bradley, having never remembered being Carl Williams or his wife Mary (Carolyn Conwell) and his family. His final appearance in Y&R was in 1999.

Hadley’s other notable credits include features The Mad Bomber, Funny Lady and Next of Kin. He most recently starred in Anthony Lawrence’s comedy short Dreamcatchers in 2015.

Big Pokey Dies: Houston Rapper Collapses On Stage At 45

Veteran Houston rapper Big Pokey (aka Melvin Powell) died Saturday night shortly after collapsing on stage during a Beaumont, Texas performance. He was 45 and the cause of death has not been determined.

Video from the performance shows Big Pokey gasping in mid-lyric, then falling on his back. A nurse in the crowd administered CPR, and shortly thereafter, he was taken to a hospital just after midnight. He died shortly after.

Big Pokey was seen as a founder of the Houston rap scene with the group Screw up Click. His 1999 solo debut, “The Hardest Pit in the Litter,” brought him to greater attention. He since released numerous albums and collaborations, with his last work 2021’s “Sensei.”

Paxton Whitehead Dies: Stage Actor Recurring Co-star On ‘Mad About You’ Was 85

Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snooty professor who takes an instant disliking to Rodney Dangerfield’s crude self-made man in 1986’s Back To School, died June 16 at a hospital in Arlington, VA. He was 85.

Tony-nominated for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot, Paxton, born in English village of East Malling, made his Broadway debut in a short-lived of Ronald Millar’s The Affair. His next Broadway show – Beyond the Fringe in 1962 – was a milestone for a new wave of British comedy, popularizing the work of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore with American audiences.

Subsequent Broadway credits include 1970’s Candida; There’s One in Every Marriage (1972); Chemin de Fer (1973); Habeas Corpus (1975); The Crucifer of Blood (1978), in which he played Sherlock Holmes opposite Glenn Close; Camelot (1980); Noises Off (1983); Run for Your Wife (1989); Artist Descending a Staircase (1989); Lettice and Lovage (1990) starring Maggie Smith; A Little Hotel on the Side (1992); My Fair Lady starring Richard Chamberlain and Melissa Errico (1993); Absurd Person Singular (2005); The Importance of Being Earnest (2011); and, most recently, the 2018 production of Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer.

Whitehead began a ten-year run in 1967 as artistic director of Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada. He also performed in a West End production of Heartbreak House, and early in his career was signed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A familiar face on television for decades, Whitehead made appearances in Magnum, P.I., Hart to Hart, The A-Team, Silver Spoons, Caroline in the City, Ellen, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Frasier, two episodes of Friends as Rachel’s department store boss, and, beginning in 1992, Mad About You, in which he had the recurring role of the comically snobbish neighbor Hal Conway. He also recurred in 1995’s Simon.

Film credits included 1987’s Baby Boom starring Diane Keaton; 1986’s Jumpin’ Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg and, perhaps most memorably, the 1986 Dangerfield vehicle Back to School. In the latter, Dangerfield, then at the peak of his movie popularity, played the crass but wealthy self-made businessman who, well into middle-age, decides to go to college. His enrollment is opposed by Whitehead’s pompous business school professor Dr. Barbay.

Teresa Taylor Dies: Butthole Surfers Drummer And Memorable ‘Slacker’ Actor Was 60

Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died Sunday of lung disease, her former bandmates announced. She was 60.

Taylor, who sometimes used the stage name Teresa Nervosa, “passed away peacefully this weekend after a long battle with lung disease,” the Butthole Surfers tweeted today. “She will live in our hearts forever. RIP, dear friend.”

Born in Arlington, Texas, Taylor played drums in her high school marching band alongside fellow percussionist King Coffey. After joining the San Antonio-based rock band, Coffey recruited his friend Taylor to join. The two drummers would perform in unison, often standing up, giving the band its early signature sound and visual style.

Taylor left the band in 1989 after experiencing seizures caused by a brain aneurysm. She underwent brain surgery in 1993. The group went to have an infectious No. 1 modern rock hit with “Pepper” in 1996, and she returned for some tour dates in 2009.

Aside from her drumming career, Taylor is remembered for an attention-getting performance in Richard Linklater’s breakthrough film Slacker, portraying a character credited as Pap Smear Pusher who tries to sell a jar containing what she claims is a pap smear belonging to Madonna. Taylor’s character, dressed in a black T-shirt, sunglasses and ball cap, was featured on the movie’s poster and home video packaging.

In a 2006 oral history of the movie published on the Salon website, Taylor recalled feeling very unsure of what would be her sole major film performance.

Frederic Forrest Dies: Oscar-Nominated Actor In ‘Apocalypse Now’ And ‘The Rose’ Was 86

Director Francis Ford Coppola, who worked with him on Apocalypse Now and other films, issued a statement.

“Freddie Forrest was a sweet, much beloved person, a wonderful actor and a good friend. His loss is heartbreaking to me.”

Midler and Forrest starred in the The Rose (1979), with Forrest portraying her limousine-driver-turned-love-interest, Huston Dyer.

The role earned Forrest Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

Also in 1979, he starred as Jay “Chef” Hicks in the Francis Ford Coppola classic Apocalypse Now, working alongside Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando.

Born on Dec. 23, 1936, in Waxahachie, Texas, Forrest earned a minor in theater arts and a major in radio and television studies at Texas Christian University.

He then headed to New York, where he studied under Sanford Meisner, an accomplished actor and teacher. Forrest later became a part of the Actors Studio, mentored by theater director and actor Lee Strasberg, while working as a page at NBC Studios.

He performed in such Off-Broadway productions as “Viet Rock,” “Silhouettes” and “Futz!” before moving to Los Angeles. He won a role in When Legends Die (1972), earning a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.

He followed with small roles in The Conversation (1974), also directed by Coppola.

His last on-screen appearance was in All The King’s Men in 2006.

He was married to Nancy Ann Whittaker from 1960 to 1963 and​ actress Marilu Henner ​from 1980 to 1983.

Soap star Nicolas Coster dead at 89

The screen legend, who was best known for playing Lionel Lockridge on the former NBC daytime soap, passed away at a Florida hospital on Monday, his daughter Dinneen confirmed on social media.

The soap star appeared on the hit show until its cancellation in January 1993, though he did have a hiatus of just over two years due to a lack of a storyline for his alter ego.

Prolific right to the end, with his final appearances including Better Things, American Crime Story and Feds, Coster famously starred in an episode of Wonder Woman as the villain Silas Lockhart and played Haftel in Star Trek.

Coster also portrayed Eduardo Grimaldi on the soap As The World Turns from 1993 until 1995.

And he played kidnapper Steve Andrews on another soap, All My Children.

His first-ever soap role was in Young Doctor Malone in the 60s.

Coster’s major credits include Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T. J. Hooker, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

He was once married to actress-and-model Candace Hilligoss, 87, with whom he had two children, before divorcing in 1981.

Star of Warlock Julian Sands dies

U.K. actor Julian Sands confirmed dead after remains in California mountains ID'd

British 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 five months after he disappeared while hiking, authorities said Tuesday.

An investigation confirmed that it was Sands whose remains hikers found on Sunday in wilderness near Mount Baldy, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said. The 65-year-old actor was a longtime avid hiker who lived in Los Angeles and was reported missing on Jan. 13 after setting out for the peak, which rises more than 3,048 metres east of the city.

Crews aided by drones and helicopters had searched for Sands several times but were severely hampered by wintry conditions that lasted through spring. There was no sign of Sands until the hikers came upon his remains.

It has not yet been determined how he died, authorities said.

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.

After studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Sands embarked on a career in stage and film, playing small parts in films including Oxford Blues and The Killing Fields. He landed the starring role of George Emerson, who falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter's Lucy Honeychurch, while on holiday in Tuscany, in the 1985 British romance A Room With a View.

The film from director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for best film, and was nominated for eight Oscars, winning three.

In the wake of its success, Sands moved to the United States to pursue a career in Hollywood.

He played the title role in the 1989 horror fantasy Warlock and its sequel. In the 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia, with Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, Sands played an entomologist specializing in spiders.

The following year, he appeared in Canadian director David Cronenberg's surreal adaptation of the William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch in 1991.

In 1993, Sands starred in the thriller Boxing Helena, a movie that drew major media attention during production when Madonna and Kim Basinger each accepted the title role before backing out. The part went to Twin Peaks actor Sherilyn Fenn. The film flopped.

Author Anne Rice championed Sands to play the titular Lestat in the much-hyped 1994 Hollywood adaptation of her novel Interview With the Vampire, but the role went to Tom Cruise.
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In 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, Sands played an abusive Latvian pimp alongside Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film was nominated for four Oscars, with Cage winning best actor.

After Leaving Las Vegas, the quality of the films Sands was cast in, and the size of his roles, began declining. He worked steadily, appearing in director Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel and director Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera.

He also appeared as a guest star or in recurring roles on TV series, including 24, Medici, Smallville, Dexter, Gotham and Elementary. His final film was 2022's The Ghosts of Monday.

Sands was born in Yorkshire, the middle child of five brothers raised by a single mother. He had three children of his own.

He had been married since 1990 to journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, with whom he had two adult daughters, Imogen Morley Sands and Natalya Morley Sands. His eldest child was son Henry Sands, whom he had with his first wife, journalist Sarah Harvey.

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Alan Arkin Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ & ‘Argo’ Actor Was 89

In addition to his Oscar-winning film work, Arkin won a Tony Award for acting in Enter Laughing) and was Tony-nominated for directing The Sunshine Boys. He also was nominated for a half-dozen Emmy Awards spanning 53 years, most recently for starring opposite Michael Douglas in the Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method in both 2019 and 2020. He left the show after its second season.

His other Emmy nominations were for lead actor in a limited series or movie for his role as Harry Rowen in The Pentagon Papers in 2003, a guest shot on Chicago Hope in 1997, supporting actor in the 1987 miniseries Escape from Sobibor and for ABC Stage 67 in 1967.

Arkin was born on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants parents from Russia and Germany. He made his first big-screen appearance as an uncredited singer in Fred Sears’ Calypso Heat Wave (1957). Arkin made his Broadway debut in the 1961 musical From the Second City. He next starred as David Kolowitz in the Broadway comedy Enter Laughing, for which he won the Tony. It ran for a year at Henry Miller’s Theatre in 1963-64.

Arkin earned his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Actor category for his first substantial onscreen role, in Norman Jewison’s 1966 Cold War comedy The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming. He was nominated again in 1968 for his role as a mute in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Robert Ellis Miller.

He finally won an Academy Award in 2006 for what was described at the time as a comeback performance in the cult teen comedy Little Miss Sunshine, starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette and a young Paul Dano. He followed that with an Oscar-nominated performance in Ben Affleck’s Best Picture winner Argo.

Arkin clocked more than 100 feature film credits across his decades-long career. Notable pics include the 2017 Going in Style remake, Million Dollar Arm, The Muppets, Get Smart, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, So I Married an Ax Murderer, North, GlenGarry Glen Ross, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Slums of Beverly Hills, Catch-22, Edward Scissorhands, Freebie and the Bean, The In-Laws, Slums of Beverly Hills and Wait Until Dark, where he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn. He also voice Wild Knuckles in last year’s toon sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru, which was his last screen credit.

He also enjoyed a significant Broadway career, both as an actor and director. Alongside his 1963 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor/Play for Enter Laughing, he was Tony-nominated in 1973 for his direction of the original production of Neil Simon’s classic The Sunshine Boys, starring Jack Albertson and Sam Levene. Other Broadway acting credits include 1961’s From the Second City and 1964’s Luv. He directed Hail Scrawdyke! in 1966, Molly in ’73, and, most recently, Taller Than a Dwarf in 2000.

Along with his sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony — all of whom are actors — Arkin is survived by his third wife Suzanne Newlander Arkin, whom he married in 1999.

Darren Drozdov Dies: WWE Wrestler Paralyzed In Ring Accident Was 54

Drozdov was an NFL noseguard for three seasons, playing with the New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos. During that time, he picked up the nickname “Puke” for his penchant for vomiting on the field. He carried that name over initially when he started his wrestling career. He later switched to the more socially acceptable “Droz.”

He began on the independent wrestling circuit before reaching the then WWF (later the WWE) in 1998.

On October 5, 1999, Drozdov was wrestling D’Lo Brown at a SmackDown taping at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. In the match, he landed on his head and factured two neck vertebrae.

He eventually recovered some movement in his arms and upper body, but remained in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The match never aired on television.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson paid tribute to Droz on his social media page. “We wrestled on a lot of cards together. Such an awesome dude.”

“Great personality and great wrestling talent,” he added. “We always talked about football and fishing. Sending love, strength, mana and light to his family. RIP brother.”

Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez Dies: Actor-Grandson Of Robert De Niro Was 19

Rodriguez appeared with his mother in the 2018 film A Star Is Born, in which they played mother and son Paulette Stone and Leo Stone. The two also appeared as mother-son characters in Cabaret Maxime (2018) and The Collection (2005).