R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers or Sports related) 2024

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TikToker Teresa Smith Dead at 48 After Cancer Battle

The R&B and gospel artist—who covered Billie Eilish's song "What Was I Made For?" in one of her most popular videos—frequently posted her music on TikTok

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Actress Ilene Graff's Husband, Composer Ben Lanzarone Dead at 85

a composer behind music in hit shows like "The Love Boat" and "Happy Days"

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Cancer still sucks. RIP to all who have passed.

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Porn star Kagney Linn Karter dead from suicide aged 36

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Strictly Come Dancing's Robin Windsor dies aged 44

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PORKY'S' STAR TONY GANIOS
DEAD AT 64 ...
Heart Attack After Surgery

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44 is so young. So is 64 and Porky's is a movie I have not thought of in a couple years. RIP

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Judi Pulver, “Dancing on the Moon” Singer and Longtime Hollywood Reporter Sales Exec, Dies at 77
After opening for Mott the Hoople on tour, she spent 27 years at THR, then closed her career at Variety.

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The Office star Ewen MacIntosh has died aged 50



He was Keith

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Paul D'Amato, an American actor best known for his appearance as the lead antagonist in the hockey film Slap Shot, passed away at the age of 75.

Paul D'Amato was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 2, 1949. D'Amato began working as a stagehand at the age of 14. When he was 21, he changed his career path to acting. He attended Emerson College, where he appeared in school productions and also played on the school ice hockey team. In 1974, he moved to Montpelier, Vermont, and acted in a local theatre ensemble. He played one of the three prisoners in a 1975 stage production of the Jean Genet play, Deathwatch, for which his performance was reviewed as "outstanding".

D'Amato's combination of acting and ice hockey experience put him in contention for a role in the 1977 film Slap Shot, in which he played the main antagonist. He has appeared in films including The Deadliest Season (1977 TV film), The Deer Hunter (1978), Firepower (1979), and Heaven's Gate. His appearance in Slap Shot served as the basis for artist John Byrne's rendition of the comic book character Wolverine.

D'Amato also had a stage career, appearing in a Vermont production of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre in 1980. In the 1980s, D'Amato was typically cast as a thug or henchman; in a 1983 pilot for the TV series Murder Ink, his character assaulted a character played by Ellen Barkin, and in the 1987 film Suspect, he "held a razor to Cher's throat... and stabbed [Dennis Quaid]". In the 1990s and 2000s' D'Amato appeared as different characters in multiple episodes of Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.[2] In 1996, he performed in an off-Broadway revival of the play, Requiem for a Heavyweight.

D'Amato continued to make public appearances in the 2010s, mostly evoking his appearance in Slap Shot. In November 2010, D'Amato dropped the ceremonial first puck at a hockey game between the Danbury Whalers and the Broome County Barons. In July 2012, he came out for an ice skating event to raise funds for Hope Lodge in Worcester. In August 2017, he participated in a reunion of members of the Slap Shot cast in Winnipeg for a golf tournament commemorating the 40th anniversary of the film. By 2019, he was working as a boot-fitter in a Vermont ski shop, which facilitated his skiing hobby.