Sutton appeared in several plays including Our Town, The Last Madam and A Raisin In The Sun and in more than 80 movies and TV-movies including Ray, Glory Road, American Violet, Eve's Bayou, Monster's Ball, Steel Magnolias, The Big Easy, The Pelican Brief and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Carol Sutton, 'mesmerizing' New Orleans actress for half century, dies at 76
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_l...50522b808.html
Charley Pride had 60 top-40 country hits, 52 top tens and 29 number ones including Amazing Love, More To Me, Night Games, Then Who Am I, Mountain Of Love, You're My Jamaica, A Shoulder To Cry On, I'm Just Me, It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer, Wonder Could I Live There Anymore, Kiss An Angel Good Mornin' and Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone. Here he is in 2014, singing a medley of some of his hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZAlHSC0Egg
Country music legend Charley Pride dead at 86 from COVID-19 complications
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news...from-covid-19/
Le Carré (real name: David Cornwell) wrote 25 novels. Ten of them, including The Russia House, The Looking Glass War, The Little Drummer Girl and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, were adapted as motion pictures.
John le Carré, best-selling author of cold war thrillers, dies at 89
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/b...arre-dead.html
Bulloch played – but did not voice – Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, appeared in seven episodes of Doctor Who and played Philip Cooper in 203 episodes of the 1965-69 BBC television soap opera The Newcomers.
Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett, dead at 75
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny...vea-story.html
Carl Mann released 15 singles between 1957 and 1976. His only hits were rockabilly versions of Nat "King" Cole songs. Mona Lisa reached #25 on the Hot 100 in August 1959 and Pretend peaked at #57 three months later.
Rockabilly great, Mona Lisa hitmaker Carl Mann dead at 78
https://www.commercialappeal.com/sto...ic/3935073001/
Here are his two hits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4I4qhGKag
Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominee, also appeared in several episodes of Boardwalk Empire, NCIS: New Orleans and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Rebecca Luker, star of Show Boat, The Music Man and Mary Poppins on Broadway, dies at 59
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...way-dies-at-59
Mississippi Queen reached #21 on the Hot 100 in July 1970. Among Mountain's other well-known songs are Never In My Life, Nantucket Sleighride, For Yasgur's Farm and The Animal Trainer & The Toad.
Leslie West, Mountain guitarist and voice behind hit Mississippi Queen, dies at 75
https://people.com/music/leslie-west-dead-at-75/
The rap/hip-hop trio Whodini formed in 1982 in Brooklyn. Their hits include Friends, One Love, Big Mouth and Freaks Come Out At Night.
Whodini co-founder John 'Ecstasy' Fletcher dead at 56
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-dead-1107571/
Rice released 12 solo albums, seven albums with his band The Tony Rice Unit and six albums as a member of The Bluegrass Album Band. He also played guitar on albums by David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Béla Fleck, J.D. Crowe, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many others.
Bluegrass great Tony Rice dead at 69
https://tasteofcountry.com/tony-rice-dead-dies/
Manzanero wrote more than 600 songs including Adoro, Felicidad, Esperaré, Te Extraño, Esta Tarde Vi Llover (which, with English lyrics, became Yesterday I Heard The Rain) and Somos Novios (which, with English lyrics, became It's Impossible, a 1970 hit for Perry Como). Manzanero was honored with a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
Armando Manzanero, legendary Mexican singer and composer, dead at 85
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/enter...ntl/index.html
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