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Showbiz legend Don Lane has died, aged 75. His manager Jayne Ambrose said Lane passed away this morning. He had been living in a nursing home in Melbourne and was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Along with Graham Kennedy and Bert Newton, he will be remembered as part of a trio of legendary TV stars from [...] Gordon Boyd, one of the stars of Australian TV in the ’60s and ’70s, has died. He was 86. During his heyday, Boyd hosted the nations’s top talent show, Showcase, a precursor to Australian Idol. He also fronted the dating show, The Marriage Game between 1966 and 1972. He also had guest roles in The [...] Barry Letts, producer of Doctor Who through one of its most fondly-remembered periods with Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor from 1970 to 1974, has died at the age of eighty-four. Previously an actor, Letts moved behind the camera in the 1960s, finding work as a director on several programmes for BBC television. He first [...] Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with Dirty Dancing and then broke them with Ghost, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” [...] MOLLIE Sugden, the television actor who played the cat-obsessed Betty Slocombe in Are You Being Served?, has died age 86. Sugden, born in 1922 in Keighley, West Yorkshire, became a household name after appearing in brightly-coloured wigs as the social-climbing matriarch in the comedy series between 1972 and 1975. Her famous “pussy” lines became a [...] Karl Malden has died at age 97. He was born in Chicago, Mladen George Sekulovich, the son of Serbian immigrant laborers, March 22, 1912, and raised in Gary, Ind. He changed his name in the late 1930s. Malden was known for his distinctive nose and roles opposite Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and [...] Farrah Fawcett, who soared to fame in the 1970′s on television’s Charlie’s Angels has died aged 62, following her very public battle with cancer. She died at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. As well as Ryan O’Neil & family, her “Charlie’s Angels” co-stars, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson rallied to her side, both themselves breast cancer [...] |
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