R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers or Sports related) 2023

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Yikes. I do not know what is worse. Dying from falling down the stairs or being tortured then murdered. The latter sounds worse but the first is such a bad way to go in its own way.

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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

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Glenda Jackson, Whose 2018 Broadway Return Was a Theatrical Event, Dies at 87

Jackson was an Oscar and Tony Award winner, as well as a member of the British parliament for two decades.

Glenda Jackson, an Oscar- and- Tony-winning actor who segued into a two-decade career as a member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, has died at the age of 87 after a brief illness. Jackson worked until the end of her life, recently completing filming of The Great Escaper, in which she costarred alongside Michael Caine.

After a 30-year absence, Jackson returned to Broadway in 2018 in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women. Hailed by audiences and critics as one of the theatrical events of that season, Jackson (who starred opposite Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill) won every possible award she was eligible for, including the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League. The production broke the Golden Theatre’s house record five times.

Jackson’s subsequent Broadway appearance (her last) — as King Lear in Sam Gold’s experimental production of the Shakespearean tragedy — was less well received, closing after just 76 performances. Still, her performance was impressive, never once sagging in stamina over the course of three-and-a-half hours. “Her level of technique is wholly unparalleled in terms of diction, lucidity, and clarity of speech,” we wrote in our review.

Jackson won a par of Oscars over the course of her career, first for Women in Love in 1970 and then for A Touch of Class in 1973. She received a pair of Emmys for the BBC film Elizabeth R, in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. Other films include Marat/Sade, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Hedda, as well as the television film The Patricia Neal Story, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

She made her Broadway debut in 1965 in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, and went on to star in Rose (1981), Strange Interlude (1985), and Macbeth (1988), receiving a Tony Award nomination for each performance. She also appeared as Martha in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf opposite John Lithgow, Cynthia Nixon, and Brian Kerwin at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.

Alongside her acting career, Jackson spent 23 years in British politics, running on the Labour Party ticket and representing Hampstead and Highgate as an MP. She stopped running for office in 2011 after a narrow win the year before and retired from her position in 2015. She famously decried the policies of Margaret Thatcher in a fiery speech following her death in 2013.

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Carol Higgins Clark, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 66

She had a modest career as an actress but was best known for following in the footsteps of her mother, the best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark.

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RIP Carol.

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Beloved star of Discovery Channel's Flying Wild Alaska dies in small plane crash above state: Experienced hunting and fishing guide was 68

Bush pilot Jim Tweto, the star of Discovery Channel´s 'Flying Wild Alaska', was killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after takeoff Friday.

Tweto's family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the television series a decade ago.

He and passenger Shane Reynolds of Orofino, Idaho, died Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, roughly 125 miles east of Nome, , Alaska State Troopers said

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Houston rapper Big Pokey dead at 48 after collapsing during a Texas show

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Paxton Whitehead death: Prolific stage actor and Friends guest star dies, aged 85

Actor, who performed on stage opposite Glenn Close and Maggie Smith, appeared in numerous 1990s sitcoms

The actor had numerous guest appearances in hit comedies from the 1990s, including Friends, Frasier, Ellen, 3rd Rock from the Sun and The Drew Carey Show.

But it was the recurring role of Hal Conway in Mad About You for which he was best known by TV viewers. He played the wife of Judy Geeson’s Maggie in nine episodes.

Whitehead, who was born in 1937, died on 16 June, and the news was announced by his son Charles.

The actor, who was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, trained at London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art when he was 17, before embarking on an illustrious acting career that saw him perform on stage and screen.

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Angela Thorne, actor best known for To The Manor Born, dies aged 84

Thorne played Marjory Frobisher in the sitcom from 1979 to 1981 and voiced the queen in The BFG

Thorne played Marjory Frobisher in To the Manor Born opposite the actors Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles from 1979 to 1981 and appeared in a string of long-running shows including Midsomer Murders.

She was nominated for an Olivier award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis? when she turned her hand to the stage.

Her sons Rupert and Laurence Penry-Jones followed her into acting, the former performing in shows including Spooks, Silk and Whitechapel and the latter in Waking the Dead and Doctors.

A statement from Rupert Penry-Jones said: “The actress Angela Thorne died peacefully at her home on the 16th of June. She was 84 years old.

“She was the beloved wife of Peter Penry-Jones, and is survived by her two sons Rupert and Laurie Penry-Jones and her grandchildren, Florence, Peter, Giorgio and Delilah. We will all miss her very much.”

Thorne trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on a scholarship and later performed in repertory seasons.

Her on-screen credits included the 1980s BBC One sitcom Three Up, Two Down, the police drama series Heartbeat and the drama series Elizabeth R, which starred the late Glenda Jackson.

She voiced the Queen of England in the animated 1989 film adaptation of The BFG.

In 2013, she appeared in a stage adaptation of Alexander Mackendrick’s 1955 black comedy The Ladykillers alongside Ralf Little, Simon Day and John Gordon Sinclair.

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Larry Myers Jr. dead at 49: My 600-Lb. Life star known as Mr. Buttermilk Biscuits passes away from 'heart attack' just days after his birthday