Entertainment industry obituaries

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Lipton was the head writer of 171 episodes of Another World, 111 episodes of The Best Of Everything, 404 episodes of The Doctors, 422 episodes of Return To Peyton Place and five Bob Hope television specials.

James Lipton, creator and host of Inside The Actors Studio, dies at 93
Before he hosted the long-running Bravo series, Lipton played the Lone Ranger's nephew on radio and wrote TV scripts and Broadway lyrics.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-studio-909382

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Nevins appeared in five episodes of Barnaby Jones (each time as a different character), six episodes of JAG and nine episodes of Melrose Place. She appeared in dozens of other tv shows including ER, Coach, Columbo, CHiPs, Hotel, Dallas, Police Story, Designing Women, Picket Fences, Lou Grant, The Rockford Files, 7th Heaven and One Day At A Time.

Claudette Nevins, Melrose Place actress and star of Broadway's Plaza Suite, dies at 82

https://people.com/tv/claudette-nevins-dead-at-82/

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Alfred McCoy Tyner was the last surviving member of the legendary John Coltrane Quartet, which also included double bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Joe Jones. Tyner also recorded with Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Stanley Turrentine and others. As a solo artist and as a bandleader, Tyner released 67 studio albums and seven live albums. Among his best-known songs are Atlantis, The Greeting, Fly With The Wind, Monk's Blues, Passion Dance and You Taught My Heart To Sing.

McCoy Tyner, groundbreaking pianist of 20th century jazz, dies at 81

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/81294...azz-dies-at-81

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Carl Adolf von Sydow appeared in more than 150 movies and tv shows, beginning with the 1949 Swedish film Bara En Mor (Only A Mother) and including Awakenings, Judge Dredd, Flash Gordon, Conan The Barbarian, The Seventh Seal and A Kiss Before Dying. In 1985, he played the apostle Peter in the Quo Vadis mini-series and King John of Portugal in the Christopher Columbus mini-series.

Max von Sydow, Game Of Thrones and The Exorcist actor, dies at 90

https://www.etonline.com/max-von-syd...d-at-90-142764

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The nine men (including Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Laurence Luckinbill) who starred in the off-Broadway production of The Boys In The Band reprised their roles for the 1970 movie adaptation. In 2002, Crowley wrote a sequel, The Men From The Boys. He also produced 68 episodes (1980-83) of the Hart To Hart television series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers.

Mart Crowley, The Boys In The Band playwright, dies at 84
When it opened in 1968, the play broke new ground in its depiction of gay characters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/a...wley-dead.html

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Coppola conducted the music for The Godfather Part III (1990) and Dracula (1992). He – Coppola, not Dracula – was the younger brother of flutist/pianist/composer Carmine Coppola, the uncle of Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire and the grand-uncle of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman.

Antonio Coppola, opera conductor in filmmaking clan, dies at 102
A seemingly ageless composer and maestro, he completed Puccini's unfinished Turandot, wrote the opera Sacco & Vanzetti and led a concert of his music at 100.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/a...pola-dead.html

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Olsen was the bass player for the Music Machine, whose biggest hit, Talk Talk, reached #15 on the Hot 100 in January 1967. He produced albums for Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Joe Walsh, Journey, Heart, Santana, Whitesnake, the Animals, the Grateful Dead and many other artists.

Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne and Scorpions producer Keith Olsen has died

https://www.loudersound.com/news/fle...ith-olsen-dead

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Nikolas Landon "Lorenzo" Brino played Sam Camden in 139 episodes of 7th Heaven, The WB's 1996-2007 series about a minister, his wife and their seven children. Brino was a quadruplet. His brother Zachary and sister Myrinda appeared (uncredited) in a few episodes.

Lorenzo Brino, 7th Heaven actor, dies at 21 in car accident

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lor...es-1203534928/

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Whitman appeared in 116 movies and tv-movies including Brigadoon, Johnny Trouble, Barbed Wire (with Gene Autry), Hound Dog Man (with Fabian), When Worlds Collide, Run For The Roses, The Mark, The Comancheros, The Longest Day and Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

Actor Stuart Whitman dies at 92

https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/17/actor...-dead-dies-92/

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Waggoner appeared in three episodes of Fantasy Island, three episodes of Murder She Wrote and two episodes of Happy Days. He played a different character in each of those eight episodes. He appeared in 60 other movies and television series including Love Me Deadly, Maude, Gunsmoke, Mork & Mindy, Lost In Space and Charlie's Angels.

Lyle Waggoner, The Carol Burnett Show and Wonder Woman star, dies at 84

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lyl...an-1203537006/