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11 May 1963 – 2009 Natasha Richardson, 45, (Skiing Accident, Head Injury), English actress. Gothic (1986) * A Month in the Country * Patty Hearst * The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film) * Zelda * Nell * The Parent Trap * Cabaret (Tony Award) * Maid in Manhattan * The White Countess * Wild Child (2008)

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11 May 1911 – 1985 Phil Silvers, 74, US actor, comedian, dancer Cover Girl (1944) * Summer Stock * Phil Silvers Show * Top Banana * It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum * Carry On Follow That Camel * Buona Sera Mrs Campbell * Boatniks * Cheap Detective (1978)

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10 May 1922 – 92 Nancy Walker, (b. Anna Swoyer), 69, US actress, singer Best Foot Forward (1943) * Girl Crazy * Lucky Me * The Mary Tyler Moore Show * The World's Greatest Athlete * McMillan & Wife * Rhoda * Murder by Death 🤣 * Can't Stop the Music (director) * Columbo * True Colors (1990-92)

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10 May 1899–1987 Fred Astaire, (b. Austerlitz), 88, US dancer, choreographer, actor, singer Top Hat (1935) * Swing Time * Shall We Dance * Easter Parade * Royal Wedding * Band Wagon * Funny Face * Silk Stockings * On the Beach * Finian's Rainbow * Towering Inferno (OscarNom) * That's Dancing (1985)

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10 May 1894 – 1979 Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. Oscars: Do Not Forsake Me (w. Ned Washington) High Noon (1952) * The High and Mighty * The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Some Oscar nominations Mr Smith Goes to Washington * Champion * The Alamo * Town Without Pity * The Guns of Navarone

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After his real-estate business fell on hard times Fred #Trump revived his firm in #WW2 building government financed, Federal Housing Administration, for #USA naval personnel on the East Coast. After the war he continued to rely on government backed schemes #VEDay80 #DOGE prospect.org/economy/trum...

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"In the final season of #Andor an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media. Meanwhile, those who do have the backbone to speak out against these genocidal acts are met with violent suppression." #Gaza #Palestine theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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True story of 'Alexander Holmes', the most senior surviving crew member of a US Cruise Liner sunk by a rogue #WW2 mine, who was made 'Captain' by survivors and later brought to trial for murder for his brutal regime to save as many people as possible." #TyronePower en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

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9 May 1946 – Candice Bergen, 79, US model, actress. The Group (1966) * The Sand Pebbles * Soldier Blue * Carnal Knowledge * Starting Over (OscarNom) * Gandhi * Murphy Brown * Sex and the City * Miss Congeniality * Boston Legal * Bride Wars * Let Them All Talk * The Book Club (2018-23)

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9 May 1940 – James L. Brooks, 85, US filmmaker. TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show * Rhoda * Lou Grant * Taxi * The Tracy Ullman Show * The Simpsons Terms of Endearment (1984, Three Oscars) * Broadcast News (OscarNom) * Jerry Maguire (OscarNom) * As Good as it Gets (OscarNom) * Spanglish (2004)

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9 May 1936 – 2023 Glenda Jackson, 87, English actress. Marat/Sade (1966) * Women in Love (Oscar) * The Music Lovers * Sunday Bloody Sunday (OscarNom) * Elizabeth R * Mary, Queen of Scots * A Touch of Class (Oscar) * Hedda (OscarNom) * The Incredible Sarah * Stevie * House Calls

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9 May 1936 – 2019 Albert Finney, 82, English actor. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961) * Tom Jones (Oscar) * Two For the Road * Scrooge * Annie * Gumshoe * Murder on the Orient Express (OscarNom) * Wolfen * Shoot the Moon * The Dresser * Under the Volcano (OscarNom) * Orphans * The Image

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9 May 1934 – Alan Bennett, 91, English screenwriter, playwright, novelist. Beyond the Fringe (1963 Tony Award) * A Private Function * Prick Up Your Ears * Talking Heads * The Madness of King George (OscarNom) * The Lady in the Van (play + film) * The History Boys (Tony Award) * Allelujah! (2022)

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9 May 1930 – 2001 Joan Sims, 71, English actress. The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) * Carry On Admiral * The Naked Truth * Carry Films (from 1959 to 1978) * Mr Topaze * The Big Job * Till Death Us Do Part * The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins * As Time Goes By * Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)

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9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943 Sophie Scholl, 21, (Execution for treason by Guillotine), German University of Munich Student, and #WW2 anti-fascist activist. The White Rose. www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/n... “An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.”

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9 May 1912 – 63 Pedro Armendáriz Hastings, 51, (Cancer), Mexican-US actor Las Abandonadas (1945) Enamorada * The Pearl * John Ford's The Fugitive + Fort Apache + 3 Godfathers Tulsa * We Were Strangers * Rosauro Castro * El Rebozo de Soledad * The Big Boodle * Manuela * From Russia with Love (1963)

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9 May 1860 – 1937 James Matthew J. M. Barrie, 77, Scottish novelist, playwright. #GOSH Before his death, he gifted the rights to his 1904 Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, in perpetuity, which continues to benefit from them today. www.gosh.org/about-us/pet...

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9 May 1800 – 1959 John Brown, 59, (Execution by hanging treason) US anti-slavery activist, freedom fighter "I mingle my blood with the blood of my children and with the millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments." www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

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8 May 1926 – Sir David Attenborough, age 99, English broadcaster, filmmaker, biologist, natural historian, writer. TV Executive (as controller of BBC2 1965–1969, including commissioning Monty Python's Flying Circus) "The future of the natural world, on which we all depend, is in our hands." 🤔 😳😱🌍🌎

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8 May 1913 – 1976 Sid James, (b. Solomon Cohen), 62, (Heart Attack), South African-British actor. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) House Across the Lake * Belles of St Trinian's * Hell Drivers * Another Time, Another Place * Carry On Films (1960-74) The Big Job * Bless This House (1971-76 + 1972 film)

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8 May 1945 – #WW2 German Instrument of Unconditional Surrender was signed at Berlin-Karlshorst 22:43 CET taking effect 23:01 CET. ‘We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing; but let us not forget for a moment, the toil and efforts that lie ahead.’ #VEDay80 www.iwm.org.uk/history/what...

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5 May 1914 – 58 #TyronePower, 44, US actor. #WW2 pilot. "I've been asked if I believe WW2 is the last war? Let me answer: Do you think that human beings are any better after it, I'm not sure?" Now we have 'faith', but if it means a blind acceptance, then I think I am a man without faith."

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#Trump 'says he will hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs as he ramps up trade disputes with nations around the world, authorising the #USA to start the process to impose the levy because America's movie industry was dying "a very fast death".' #MAGA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"See the way we rolled over Denmark, Norway, Belgium, France. One after the other - like a steam roller. We had to restore our place in the world. We were considered weak, but now everyone respects us - because they are afraid of us." "I'll tell my wife when she needs her new #EU medicine?" #MAGA

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7 May 1923 – 1985 Anne Baxter, 62 (Stroke), US actress. Frank Lloyd Wright (grandfather) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) * Five Graves to Cairo * The Razor's Edge (Oscar) * All About Eve (OscarNom) #Hitchcock I Confess * The Blue Gardenia * The Ten Commandments * Batman * Columbo * Hotel (1983-86)

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7 May 1917 – 2000 David Tomlinson, 83, English actor. #WW2 RAF flight instructor. Pimpernel Smith (1941) * So Long at the Fair * Carry On Admiral * Up the Creek * Tom Jones * Mary Poppins * City Under the Sea * The Love Bug * Bedknobs and Broomsticks * The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1981)

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7 May 1901 – 1961 Frank 'Gary' Cooper, 60, (Cancer), US stuntman, actor. The Plainsman (1936) Mr Deeds Goes to Town (OscarNom) Meet John Doe * Ball of Fire * Sergeant York (Oscar) * Pride of the Yankees (OscarNom) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944 OscarNom) High Noon (1952 Oscar) Man of the West (1958)

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7 May 1885 – 1969 George "Gabby" Hayes, 83, US vaudevillian, actor. Film debut 1929: Hop-Along Cassidy films (1935) * Mr. Deeds Goes to Town * The Plainsman * The Arizona Kid (Roy Rogers + Trigger) * Dark Command * Tall in the Saddle * Trail Street * Return of the Bad Men * The Cariboo Trail (1950)

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6 May 1961 – George Clooney, 64, US actor. ER (1994–99) * From Dusk till Dawn * Out of Sight * O Brother, Where Art Thou? * Ocean's films * Syriana (Oscar) Good Night, and Good Luck (+ director) Michael Clayton * Up in the Air * The Descendants * Burn After Reading * Gravity * Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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6 May 1915 – 1985 George Orson Welles, 70, US actor, filmmaker. Director/Actor: Citizen Kane (1941) * The Magnificent Ambersons * The Stranger * The Lady from Shanghai * Othello * Touch of Evil * Chimes at Midnight (1966) Actor: Jane Eyre (1943) * The Third Man (1949) * Voyage of the Damned (1976)

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6 May 1913 – 1993 Stewart Granger, (b. James Stewart), 80, English-US actor. The Man in Grey (1943) * Waterloo Road * Blanche Fury * Young Bess * US: King Solomon's Mines * The Prisoner of Zenda * Salome * Beau Brummell * Green Fire * Bhowani Junction * North to Alaska * Murder, She Wrote (1985)

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6 May 1902 – 57 Max Ophüls, (b. Oppenheimer), 54, (Heart Disease), German-US filmmaker. Liebelei (1933 French) * There's No Tomorrow (1939) US: Letter from an Unknown Woman * Caught * The Reckless Moment * La Ronde * Le Plaisir (OscarNom) * The Earrings of Madame de.... * Lola Montès (1955)

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5 May 1957 – Richard Grant Esterhuysen, 68, Swazi-UK actor. Withnail and I (1987) Henry & June * Hudson Hawk * Bram Stoker's Dracula * Age of Innocence * Portrait of a Lady * Gosford Park * Dig * Game of Thrones * Can You Ever Forgive Me? (OscarNom) A Series of Unfortunate Events * Suspect (2022)

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5 May 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, 81, Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 actor. I, Claudius (1976) * Shōgun * The Living Daylights * Noble House * Murder She Wrote * Indiana Jones Film series (1989-23) * The Lost World * Glory Daze * Sliders * Lord of the Rings (Gimli/Gloin) * The Medallion * One Night with the King (2006)

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5 May 1940 – Lance Henriksen, 85, US actor. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) * Close Encounters of the Third Kind * The Omen II * Piranha II * The Right Stuff * The Terminator * Aliens * Pumpkinhead * Johnny Handsome * The Quick and the Dead * Millennium * Scream 3 * Appaloosa * Into the Badlands (2015-17)

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5 May 1915 – 98 Alice Faye, (b. Leppert), 83, US actress, singer. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) * In Old Chicago * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Tin Pan Alley * Week-End in Havana * Hello, Frisco, Hello (sang 'You'll Never Know', Oscar Best Song) * #FilmNoir Fallen Angel * State Fair (1962)

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5 May 1914 – 1958 Tyrone Power, 44, (Heart Attack), US actor, WW2 pilot. Tom Brown of Culver (1932) * Lloyd's of London (1936 first lead role) * In Old Chicago * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Jesse James * Rose of Washington Square * The Rains Came * Johnny Apollo * The Mark of Zorro * Blood and Sand

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4 May 1929 – 93 Audrey Hepburn, (b. Ruston), 63, (Cancer), Belgian-Dutch-UK actress, dancer, humanitarian. Gigi (Broadway 1951-52) Film: The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) The Young Wives' Tale * Secret People (+ ballet sequence) - - Hollywood: Roman Holiday (1953 Oscar) * Ondine (Broadway, Tony Award)

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4 May 1929 – 1993 Audrey Hepburn, (b. Ruston), 63, (Cancer), Belgian-Dutch-British actress, humanitarian. Ondine (Broadway: Tony Award) * Roman Holiday (1952 Oscar) * Sabrina (1953 OscarNom) * The Nun's Story (1958 OscarNom) * Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 OscarNom) * Wait Until Dark (1968 OscarNom)

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4 May 1903 – 1984 Luther Adler, 81, US blacklisted actor. Cornered (1945) * The Wake of the Red Witch * House of Strangers * D.O.A. * The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (as Hitler) * Hoodlum Empire * M (1951) - Blacklisted - The Brotherhood (1968) * Voyage of the Damned * Absence of Malice (1981)

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