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https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ja...sv1plustaskbar

Jak Knight, a writer, comedian and actor known for his work on Black-ish and Big Mouth, has died. He was 28.

The Bust Down star's friends and fellow comedians shared an outpouring of tributes after his family announced that he died Thursday night in Los Angeles, according to Variety. A cause of death was not given.

A rep for Knight did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

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A Boy and His Dog, good movie. RIP!

Wasn't he in the Mask of Zorro?

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Wasn't he in the Mask of Zorro?

And a zillion other movies and television shows.

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https://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryder-de...hssrp_catchall

Happy Mondays star Paul Ryder has died, aged 58. The bassist was found dead on Friday (15 July) hours before he was due to play with the band at a festival in Sunderland.

A cause of death is currently unknown. Ryder, who was the younger brother of bandmate Shaun, co-founded the group, whose official Facebook page announced the news.

A statement read: “The Ryder family and Happy Mondays band members are deeply saddened and shocked to say that Paul Ryder passed away this morning.”

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https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/11120...oldenburg-dead

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented him. "It was thrilling to work with Claes, whose odd take on things was delightful, and could completely turn one's mood around," Cooper wrote.

Oldenburg's enduring fascination was to render prosaic objects — a lipstick, for example, or a rubber stamp, or a hamburger, or a cherry perched on the tip of a spoon — in giant scale, and then put that artwork in public spaces. As he told All Things Considered in 2011, " "We like the idea that the sculptures are not all in, say, New York or someplace — that they're scattered around the cities of America and Europe. ... There's a lot of people you're never going to reach. But we have reached, I think, quite a few people, in all parts of the country."

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https://www.hornsociety.org/ihs-peop...vincent-derosa

"It's true that I played in thousands of movies, but that was what we did in those days. It would be impossible today, with the current traffic situation, to play as many sessions in a day - often three and sometimes four - as we did then, when we could get anywhere is Los Angeles in half an hour. One day I got a call. I said I could come by on my lunch hour. The studio was near where I played a morning session, so I walked over at noon. On a stand was music with just two notes. They wanted me to play them strongly, so I did, then asked what else they wanted. That was it! And the recording with those two notes became a great hit!"

"I learned the Mozart and Strauss, but the studio business required something different. The music was always new, never seen before; you played it and they recorded it. You never knew what you were going to get. Fortunately, I didn't have problems with that, so I became a well-known player in commercial work. Alfred Brain said, never practice on the stage, and that's what the business was like."

Vince DeRosa was born in 1920 into a musical family in Kansas City. His father played clarinet and his mother was a singer. The family moved to Chicago, where Vince started horn with P. Delecce, and then later the family moved to Los Angeles. Vince studied briefly with his uncle Vincent DeRubertis (who was on staff as a horn player at Paramount Studios), and the legendary Alfred Brain (uncle of Dennis Brain, and Principal Horn at 20th Century Fox Studios), and started his professional career at the age of seventeen in the horn section at 20th Century Fox. During World War II, he played in an Army recording orchestra based in Santa Ana. After obtaining his release from the Army, Vince decided to try freelance recording in Los Angeles. His first jobs were playing live radio broadcasts, and he was successful at this type of work.

As a young horn player, Vince gained playing experience through numerous freelance opportunities while most of the studio players were restricted by contract to playing in only one studio. Before long, Vince successfully established himself as the "first-call" horn player in the recording industry. Many film composers were attracted to Vince's warm and beautiful tone color and began to write prominent horn solos in their scores. Vince's impact on the business brought along with it a new standard for studio horn parts.

Over six decades, Vince played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in the LA Horn Club, and for Henry Mancini, Alfred Newman, Lalo Schifrin, and John Williams, among many others. He can be heard in motion pictures (such as ET, Days of Wine and Roses, Cowboys, Rocky, Robin Hood), television, and records for hundreds of artists (including Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra).

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https://variety.com/2022/film/news/s...on-1235322550/ Shonka Dukureh, the singer and actor who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” was found dead in her Nashville, Tenn. apartment on Thursday, police confirmed. She was 44. According to a tweet from the Metro Nashville Police Department, no foul play is evident in Dukureh’s death. “Dukureh, a Fisk Univ graduate, was found dead in the bedroom of her Kothe Way apt that she shared with her 2 young children,” the tweet reads. As reported by The Tennessean, Dukureh was found unresponsive on Thursday morning by one of her children, who went to a neighbor for help. A cause of death is not yet known and will be determined by the medical examiner.

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https://deadline.com/2022/07/taurean...82-1235074307/

Taurean Blacque, the Emmy-nominated actor best known for his role as the perennially behatted Detective Neal Washington on NBC’s influential 1980s hit police series Hill Street Blues, died today in Atlanta following a brief illness. He was 82.

His death was announced to Deadline by his family.

A native of Newark, New Jersey, Blacque was born Herbert Middleton Jr. and began his show business career at New York’s famed and influential Negro Ensemble Company, and soon landed guest roles on such TV series as Sanford and Son, What’s Happening, Good Times, The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi, to name a few.

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https://2000ad.com/news/alan-grant-1949-2022/

Everyone at 2000 AD and Rebellion is devastated to hear of the passing of Alan Grant.

Grant was one of his generation’s finest writers, combining a sharp eye for dialogue and political satire with a deep empathy that made his characters seem incredibly human and rounded. Through his work he had a profound and enduring influence on 2000 AD and on the comics industry.

Born in Bristol in 1949, he grew up in Scotland where he was frequently beaten by his teachers for being naturally left-handed and regularly expelled, the injustice of his treatment giving him a powerful distaste for authority which saturated his writing. However, this was leavened by a mischievous and wicked sense of humour that was at times scatalogical and at others soulful.

After working briefly in a bank, Alan answered a newspaper advertisement for ‘trainee journalists’ and, at the age of 18, joined DC Thomson, the Dundee-based publisher and home to the Beano, where he met John Wagner and Pat Mills. Assigned a horoscope column for the Dundee Daily Courier, he and fellow sub-editors John Hodgman and John Wagner would compete to see who could write the most ridiculous predictions. ‘It got worse and worse,’ Grant told the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2008. ‘”Sagittarius, the stars are against you today — it might be safer to stay inside. Do not be surprised if a close family member suffers an accident!”’

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Alan Grant was a super solid writer. I dont think he got the recognition he deserved during the british invasion because writers like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison absorbed all of the spotlight, but Grant was a very capable writer who did good work. Sorry to hear of his passing, he wrote a lot of comics I was into back in the day.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...es-1235185462/

Bob Rafelson, the writer, director, producer and maverick who set the tone for the swinging, psychedelic 1960s with The Monkees, then was a pioneer in one of the most influential eras in the history of independent film, has died. He was 89.

Rafelson, who collaborated with Jack Nicholson on seven features, including the classics Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), died Saturday night of natural causes at his home in Aspen, Colorado, his wife, Gabrielle, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Rafelson earned Oscar nominations for co-writing and producing Five Easy Pieces and then, for an encore, produced Peter Bogdanovich‘s breakthrough hit, The Last Picture Show (1971).

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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62219839

Actor David Warner, who starred in films such as The Omen and Tron, has died at the age of 80 from a cancer-related illness.

His family said they were sharing the news "with an overwhelmingly heavy heart".

Warner was also known for playing Billy Zane's villainous sidekick Spicer Lovejoy in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic.

He recently appeared as naval eccentric Admiral Boom in Mary Poppins Returns.

Warner died on Sunday at Denville Hall, a care home for those in the entertainment industry.

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^Just watched Tron a few weeks ago for its 40th. Always liked Warner. He played multiple Star Trek parts and was good as Jack the Ripper in the underrated sci-fi thriller Time After Time.

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Paul Sorvino, the burly character actor who made a career out of playing forceful types, most notably the coldhearted mobster Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas, has died. He was 83.

Sorvino, the father of Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite), died Monday of natural causes, his wife, Dee Dee, announced. “Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” she said.

During a solid career that spanned a half-century, Sorvino portrayed James Caan’s bookie inThe Gambler (1974), Claire Danes’ pushy father in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet (1996), Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995) and a strung-out heroin addict in The Cooler (2003).

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"Leave It To Beaver" actor Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver in the popular sitcom, died Tuesday at 77.

Dow's manager Frank Bilotta confirmed in an email to USA TODAY Tuesday that the actor died of cancer.

"It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share with you the passing of our beloved Tony this morning," said a statement from Bilotta and Renee James, Dow's management team, posted on Dow's Facebook page Tuesday.

"Tony was a beautiful soul - kind, compassionate, funny and humble. It was truly a joy to just be around him. His gentle voice and unpretentious manner was immediately comforting and you could not help but love him," they added.

"The world has lost an amazing human being, but we are all richer for the memories that he has left us. From the warm reminiscences of Wally Cleaver to those of us fortunate enough to know him personally - thank you Tony. And thank you for the reflections of a simpler time, the laughter, the friendship and for the feeling that you were a big brother to us all," the post said.