Death Anniversary Thread

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Its 19 years since the death of actor (Manfred) Frederick Jaeger. Born in Berlin, Germany, he moved to Britain, via France, following Hitler's rise to power, becoming a British citizen in 1950. He graduated from the Guildhall Scool of Music and Drama in 1948, making his stage debut a year later. Over the next almost-half-a-century, he appeared in many Stage, Film, Radio and TV productions, often cast as a German officer (his last film appearance was as a German Flying Ace in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). TV credits included both comedy and drama - he appeared in both The Avengers and The New Avengers, and was a handy comedic foil for the likes of Barry Took and Kenny Everett, as well as appearing in sitcoms, such as Keeping Up Appearances, Yes Minster, Some Mothers do 'ave 'em and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. He's particularly remembered in certain circles as Professor Marius, creator of K-9 in Doctor Who, one of three appearances in the show, which also included the equally-memorable Professor Sorenson in the story Planet of Evil.

  

 

He retired from acting in 1996, moving to Mallorca, where he died following a long illness, aged 76.

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Pedro Armendáriz was an actor born in Mexico City and died in Los Angeles 60 years ago at the age of 51, he acted in the film From Russia with Love in the role of Ali Kerim Bey, an ally of 007, his last film and which he never saw. premiere.Armendáriz participated in the film The Conqueror, in 1954, produced by Howard Hughes, with John Wayne as the lead actor. The film was made in the state of Utah, at a time when the US government was conducting nuclear tests near the filming region, in the neighboring state of Nebraska. Of the 220 people involved in the film, 91 deaths from cancer were recorded in a period of 25 years after filming and 46 died as a result of the disease, including John Wayne.

Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hip over time and years later he was diagnosed with the disease in this region. Living in Los Angeles, he learned of his terminally ill condition at the UCLA Medical Center, where he was hospitalized, after filming part of his character in Moscow against 007, which he could not finish and was replaced in some scenes by a stuntman, by the director Terence Young. He acted in the second James Bond film in great pain - he visibly limps in some scenes - to raise funds for his family after his announced death.

On June 18, 1963, before the premiere of the film, which has a dedication to him at the end, rather than await death by wasting away under strong sedatives, Armendáriz shot himself in the head with a pistol he had carried. hidden to the hospital

 

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Norwegian explorer of polar regions Roald Amundsen died on this day 95 years ago, aged 55. Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage on the sloop Gjøa. In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition. He left Norway in June 1910 on the ship Fram and reached Antarctica in January 1911. His party established a camp at the Bay of Whales and a series of supply depots on the barrier before setting out for the pole in October. The party of five, led by Amundsen, became the first to successfully reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911. Following a failed attempt in 1918 to reach the North Pole by traversing the Northeast Passage on the ship Maud, Amundsen began planning for an aerial expedition instead. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

 

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James Gandolfini died on this day 10 years ago, aged 51.

- Gandolfini was the son of an Italian immigrant who bought tires from an auto shop owned by the father of John Travolta. James and John starred in five movies together.

- Gandolfini began his Broadway career in 1985 as Steve Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire.

- Gandolfini would be typecast in mobster roles, particularly in the films True Romance, Terminal Velocity, and the juror.

- His typecasting led to him landing the leading role as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, which ran from 1999 to 2007 and earned him three Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a million dollar salary for each episode in the show's final season, with the last episode ending with

- Gandolfini underwent knee surgery in 2006, which delayed production of The Sopranos by several months.

- Gandolfini died while on vacation in Italy from a heart attack- several factors may have led to this, with the most immediate being heatstroke (he had been outside sightseeing all day during the summer heat) and his last meal (fried foods and eight alcoholic beverages). Others include his prior abuse of cocaine in his youth and the fact that he weighed 300 pounds (136 kilos/21 stone).

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William Golding was an English writer born in Newquay, Cornwall who died 30 years ago in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, author of the 1954 bestseller Lord of the Flies, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2008, he was chosen by The Times magazine as third among the "100 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".

 

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American lyricist Gerry Goffin died on this day 9 years ago, aged 75. He co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the US No. 1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". It was later said of Goffin that his gift was "to find words that expressed what many young people were feeling but we're unable to articulate. Goffin wrote with other composers, including Barry Goldberg and Michael Nasser, with whom he wrote "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" and "Saving All My Love for You", also No. 1 hits. During his career, Goffin wrote over 114 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including eight chart-toppers, and 72 UK hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

 

 

American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s Jean Arthur died on this day 32 years ago, aged 90. Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can't Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart. She also co-starred with Cary Grant in the adventure-drama Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and in the comedy-drama The Talk of the Town (1942). She starred as the lead in the acclaimed and highly successful comedy films The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and A Foreign Affair (1948), the latter of which she starred alongside Marlene Dietrich. Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.

 

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King William IV died on this day 186 years ago, aged 71.

- When William was born, he was third in line to the British throne (after his older brothers George and Frederick).

- William saw combat during the American Revolution, serving in New York. George Washington made a plan to kidnap him to force British surrender; British troops were alerted to this and William received bodyguards. During his reign, he was quoted as calling Washington "the greatest man that ever lived", possibly to flatter the American ambassador (likely Andrew Stevenson).

- William continued to serve in the Royal Navy, and became a rear-admiral in 1790.

- William was pro-slavery, arguing that the quality of life of freed Blacks was worse than enslaved ones, and he openly insulted William Wilberforce.

- Beginning in 1791, William began a relationship with actress Dorothea Jordan. They had ten bastard children together- one of his daughters, Elizabeth Hay, was the 4x-great-grandmother of Prime Minister David Cameron.

- His brother Frederick died in 1827, making him heir apparent; George IV died in 1830 with no legitimate children, and so William became king. William was the oldest British monarch to accede to the throne at the age of 64, a record surpassed in 2022 by Charles III (aged 73).

- William's reign is known for a reform crisis from 1830 to 1832, the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as PM, and allowing a more liberal constitution to take effect in Hanover.

- William died of heart failure not too long after the death of his eldest daughter Sophia, having reigned for seven years. The crown went to his niece Victoria.

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Freddie Tomlins was born in Lambeth, England died 80 years ago aged 23, was a British figure skater, who competed in men's singles. He won a silver medal at world championships and a silver medal at European championships. Tomlins competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics finishing in tenth position.

He served in the Royal Air Force in World War II. He was killed in battle with a Nazi submarine over the English Channel.

Ingvar Rydell died 10 years ago aged 91, he disputed in the 1950 World Cup

 

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American stunt performer, television personality, actor and comedian Ryan Dunn died on this day 12 years ago, aged 34. Dunn rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the CKY crew with his long-time friend Bam Margera, with whom he performed extreme stunts and pranks and recorded them on video, which led to the rise of Jackass. Dunn took part in characteristic stunts that made Jackass famous, and featured in five released films, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D, and Jackass 3.5 He also hosted the TV series Homewrecker and Proving Ground, and he appeared in the feature films Blonde Ambition and Street Dreams as well as in Margera's films Haggard and Minghags. Dunn died in a car crash.

 

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King Edward III died on this day 646 years ago, aged 64.

- Edward became king at the age of 14 when his father, Edward II, was ousted in a coup led by his wife Isabella, and Isabella's lover Roger Mortimer became the de facto ruler of England. Edward would oust Mortimer in 1330 and took complete control.

- In 1332, Edward initiated an invasion of Scotland, unsuccessfully attempting to replace their king (David II) with Edward Balliol.

- In 1337, Edward's cousin Philip VI of France confiscated England's French realms. In retaliation, Edward declared himself the rightful heir to the French throne, initiating the Hundred Years' War (which lasted 116 years in actuality). This war defined the rest of Edward's reign.

- Edward's married Philippa of Hainault when he was 15 years old, and they had nine children (7 sons and 2 daughters). His heir, Edward the Black Prince, died a year before his father, and when Edward died, the crown went to his grandson Richard II- Richard's cousin Henry (IV) considered himself the heir, which began the Wars of the Roses (medieval European royalty was just one big dysfunctional and incestuous family).

- Edward died of a stroke after a fifty-year reign, the second-longest reign of an English monarch at the time (his great-grandfather Henry III reigned 56 years).

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It's 13 years since the death of musician & comedian Chris Sievey, most famous for his alter-ego creation Frank Sidebottom.

 

Sidebottom originated as a 'mascot' for his band The Freshies, famous for their minor hit I'm in Love With The Girl from the Manchester Virgin Megastore Store Checkout Desk.

 

 

He died almost penniless, aged 54, from cancer, and faced a pauper's funeral until crowd-funding raised > £20k to cover the cost.

 

 

The film Frank, with Michael Fassbender in the title role (sort of) tells his story.

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Alen Pamić was a football player born in Maružini, Kanfanar, Yugoslavia and died 10 years ago in Maružini, Kanfanar, Croatia, aged 23, after suffering a cardiac arrest during a game with friends. He had already suffered three breakdowns on the pitch before and refused to give up football

Margret Göbl was a German skater who was born in Nuremberg and died in Essen 10 years ago, competed in pairs events representing West Germany. With Franz Ningel, she was a bronze medalist at the 1962 World Championships, won three medals, one silver and two bronze, at European championships, and was three times German champion.

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Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967 Sukarno died on this day 53 years ago, aged 69. Sukarno was the leader of the Indonesian struggle for independence from the Dutch colonialists. He was a prominent leader of Indonesia's nationalist movement during the colonial period and spent over a decade under Dutch detention until released by the invading Japanese forces in World War II. He led the Indonesian resistance to Dutch re-colonisation efforts via diplomatic and military means until the Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence in 1949. After a chaotic period of parliamentary democracy, Sukarno established an autocratic system called "Guided Democracy" in 1959 that successfully ended the instability and rebellions which were threatening the survival of the diverse and fractious country. In the early 1960s Sukarno embarked on a series of aggressive foreign policies under the rubric of anti-imperialism and personally championed the Non-Aligned Movement. These developments led to increasing friction with the West and closer relations with the USSR. After the events surrounding the 30 September Movement of 1965, the military general Suharto largely took control of the country in a Western-backed military overthrow of the Sukarno-led government. This was followed by repression of real and perceived leftists, including executions of Communist Party members and suspected sympathisers in several massacres with support from the CIA and British intelligence services, resulting in an estimated 500,000 to over 1,000,000 deaths.

 

 

Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969 Tage Erlander died on this day 38 years ago, aged 84. Becoming a member of the World War II coalition government in 1944, Erlander rose unexpectedly to the leadership upon the death of Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson in October 1946, maintaining the position of the Social Democrats as the dominant party in the country. Known for his moderation, pragmatism and self-irony, Erlander often sought approval from the liberal-conservative opposition for his policies, de facto dropping all pretences of wide-scale nationalizations whilst introducing reforms such as universal health insurance, pension additions and a growing public sector, although stopping short of raising tax levels above the average OECD levels all the time. Until the 1960s, income taxes were lower in Sweden than in the United States.

 

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On this day 30 years ago, Patricia Nixon, First Lady of USA between 1969 and 1974, died aged 81. She died before her husband Richard Nixon, who died in April 1994. This  had not occurred in nearly 50 years, since 1944, when former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover died 20 years before her husband, former president Herbert Hoover. She was also the fifth and last First Lady to be older than her husband.

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Fred Astaire died on this day 36 years ago, aged 88.

- Fred's surname at birth was "Austerlitz"; his family changed it to "Astaire" in 1905 due to the connotations with the Battle of Austerlitz (of the Napoleonic Wars).

- Fred and his older sister Adele were both child actors, debuting as a vaudeville act in 1905. They made it to Broadway in 1917, and often starred as dancing partners in the plays. Their act ended with Adele's marriage in 1932.

- From there, Astaire would begin to star in movies, often with Ginger Rogers as his leading lady. Astaire requested that his dance scenes would move the films' plots along, and he also innovated single tracking shots. One of his most notable dances was in 1951's Royal Wedding (a scene that would inspire the iconic music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice"):

Astaire would retire from dancing in films in 1957 when he was 58 (the same age Christopher Walken was in the music video).

- Astaire would move to TV in 1958, hosting several television specials. 1958's An Evening with Fred Astaire earned a total of nine Emmys.

- In 1970, Astaire would provide the voice of the mailman narrator of the Rankin/Bass Christmas special Santa Claus in Comin' to Town:

- Astaire would be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1975 for his role as Harlee Claiborne in The Towering Inferno.

- In his late 70s, Astaire took up skateboarding as a hobby, and broke his wrist one time.

- Posthumously, Astaire was the initial inspiration for the Weezer song "Buddy Holly"- the chorus originally went "Wee-ooo you look just like Ginger Rogers/Oh oh I move just like Fred Astaire". Rogers was still alive at the time of the song's release and became DeathList 1995's third hit.

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Aimon de Savoy, was Count of Savoy, of Aosta and of Maurienne from 1329 to 1343, was born in Chambéry, died in Montmélian, 680 years ago

 

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American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian Judy Garland died on this day 54 years ago, aged 47. Garland began performing as a child with her two older sisters, in a vaudeville group "The Gumm Sisters" and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM. Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli. Other starring roles during this period included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade (1948) and Summer Stock (1950). She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in A Star Is Born (1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Judgement at Nuremberg (1961). In 1950, after 15 years with MGM, the studio released her amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract.

 

 

American comedian, actor, author, and social critic George Carlin died on this day 15 years ago, aged 71. The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977, broadcast as George Carlin at USC. From the late 1980s onwards, his routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Carson's film roles included a taxi driver in Car Wash, Frank Madras in Outrageous Fortune, Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Eddie Detreville in The Prince of Tides, Cardinal Ignatius Glock in Dogma, Hitchhiker in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Architect in Scary Movie 3, and Bart Trinké in Jersey Girl. He also had voice roles as Zugor in Tarzan II, Fillmore in Cars, and as Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station, as well as narrating the American dubs for the Thomas & Friends segments. His final comedy special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death from cardiac failure.

 

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Emperor Vespasian died on this day 1944 years ago, aged 69.

- When he was young (around the year 35 AD), Vespasian was a street cleaner; his work was so half-assed that Emperor Caligula would shove muck from the streets down his toga.

- One of Vespasian's first major military roles was during the Judean Revolt in 66. He reported that he destroyed the ancient Biblical city of Jericho in 68, and took Jewish captives to the Dead Sea to test its legendary buoyancy (a fact later proven due to its extreme salt content).

- Vespasian was the last emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors (before him were Galba, Otho, and Vitellius). He was in Egypt when declared emperor, and was considered a pharaoh by its citizens.

- Vespasian was particularly unpopular in the provinces of Judea (he ordered the descendants of King David "hunted down") and Africa (modern-day Tunisia and Libya; its populace disliked his financial policies and some threw turnips at him during a procession).

- Vespasian would place a tax on urine during his reign.

- Vespasian's most lasting contribution to the world was the Colosseum, which he ordered constructed over the site of Emperor Nero's destroyed palace in 72.

- Vespasian died from either complications from a stomach virus, or dehydration from the resulting diarrhea. His last words were "I think I'm turning into a god... An emperor should die on his feet."

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Theophilus Shepstone was born in Bristol and died aged 76 130 years ago in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, was a British statesman, responsible for the annexation of Transvaal by the United Kingdom in 1877

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American film and television actor Peter Falk died on this day 12 years ago, aged 83. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running NBC series Columbo (1968-1978, 1989-2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973). Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961), and won his first Emmy Award in 1962 for The Dick Powell Theatre. He was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, achieving the feat twice (1961 and 1962). In December 2008 it was reported that Falk has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

 

 

Greek economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1996 Andreas Papandreou died on this day 27 years ago, aged 77. The achievements of his first two governments include the official recognition of the leftist and communist resistance groups of the Greek Resistance against the Axis occupation, the establishment of the National Health System and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), the passage of Law 1264/1982 which secured the right to strike and greatly improved the rights of workers, the constitutional amendment of 1985-1986 which strengthened parliamentarism and reduced the powers of the indirectly-elected president, the conduct of an assertive and independent Greek foreign policy, the expansion in the power of local governments, many progressive reforms in Greek law and the granting of permission to the refugees from the Greek Civil War of Greek ethnicity to return home to Greece. During his tenure as the prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989, the public debt of Greece as a function of gross domestic product almost tripped.

 

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Grover Cleveland died on this day 115 years ago, aged 71.

- Grover was his middle name- his first name was actually Stephen.

- While he was the sheriff of Erie County in New York, Cleveland was the executioner of two criminals.

- Cleveland owned a gun that he named "Death and Destruction".

- Cleveland became the mayor of Buffalo, New York in 1882, and governor of the state in that year's election. Cleveland won the election of 1884 against James G. Blaine, and was the first Democrat elected to the presidency since James Buchanan in 1856.

- In 1886, Cleveland married Frances Folsom at the White House- when he was 49 and she was 21.

- Cleveland had an illegitimate son, Oscar, born in 1874 from an affair with a woman named Maria Halpin.

- Cleveland is the only US president so far to serve nonconsecutive terms, losing to Benjamin Harrison in 1888 and defeating him in the 1892 rematch.

- During his second term, Cleveland was discovered to have mouth cancer. To prevent the media from finding out, his surgery to remove the tumor was done at night while on a boat.

- Cleveland's presidencies are best known for the Panic of 1893 economic depression, the admission of Utah to the union, and his tendency to veto bills (due to the Republican-controlled Congress).

- Cleveland's last photo was taken in March of 1908:

- One of Cleveland's grandchildren was Philippa Foot, known as the creator of the ethical trolley problem.

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Emilio Colombo died 10 years ago in Rome, born in Potenza, he died aged 103, and was Prime Minister of Italy from August 6, 1970 to February 17, 1972, He was President of the European Parliament between 1977 and 1979. from 2003 until his death he was a life senator of the Italian Republic, directly appointed by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. After the death of Giulio Andreotti on 6 May 2013, Colombo became the last surviving member of the Italian Constituent Assembly.

Emilio Colombo – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre (wikipedia.org)

Ernesto Bozzano was born and died in Genoa, he died 80 years ago at the age of 81, he was a professor of philosophy of science at the University of Turin and an Italian spiritist researcher. He stood out as an active contributor to Italian and French literature on paranormal phenomena from the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1940s. He was one of the few Italian researchers named honorary members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) and Institut Métapsychique International (IMI)

Ernesto Bozzano – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre (wikipedia.org)

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American film, television, and stage actor from New York Eli Wallach died on this day 9 years ago, aged 98. Originally trained in stage acting, he garnered over 90 film credits. He and his wife Anne Jackson often appeared together on stage, eventually becoming a notable acting couple in American theater. Wallach initially studied method acting under Sanford Meisner and later became a founding member of the Actors Studio, where he studied under Lee Strawberry. He played a wide variety of roles throughout his career, primarily as a supporting actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Rose Tattoo (1951). For his debut screen performance in Baby Doll (1956), he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Among his other most famous roles are Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Guido in The Misfits (1961) and Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III (1990).

 

 

English state, film, and television actor and comedian David Tomlinson died on this day 23 years ago, aged 83. Tomlinson played Philip Rowe, one of the three British airmen escaping from a German POW camp, in the 1950 British Film The Wooden Horse. Tomlinson played the role of George Banks in the Disney film Mary Poppins (1964). Mary Poppins brought Tomlinson continued work with Disney, appearing in The Love Bug (1968) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). His final acting appearance was in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), which was also the final film of Peter Sellers. Tomlinson retired from acting at the age of 63 to spend more time with his family. However, in 1992, at the age of 75, he appeared on the Wogan talk show along with Tommy Cockles.

 

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On this day 350 years ago, Charles De Batz De Castelmore aka D’Artagnan, died at around 60 years. He was a French musketeer. His heavily fictionalised life account was the basis of Alexandre Dumas famous novel, Les Trois Mousquetaires.

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Lester Maddox died on this day 20 years ago, aged 87.

- Before entering politics, Maddox was a restaurateur who opened the restaurants Lester's Grill and Pickrick Restaurant. Maddox advertised Pickrick using political cartoons featuring chickens in Atlanta newspapers.

- Maddox was a notorious segregationist, stating that he would rather close his restaurant than serve Black customers after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and also overreacted by saying that three Black people who wished to be seated were "invaders".

- Maddox was elected the governor of Georgia in 1966, running on a segregationist platform- he lost the popular vote to Republican Bo Callaway, but won because no candidate received 50% of the vote and it had to be decided by the Georgia legislature. Maddox infamously denied Martin Luther King Jr.'s body to lie in state at the Georgia state capitol during his tenure.

- Maddox was not allowed to serve a consecutive term, and in 1970 successfully won the nomination for Lieutenant Governor. The governor he would serve under was none other than future president Jimmy Carter, and the two often feuded due to political differences.

- Maddox was known for an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, walking off during a debate about segregation with (the late) Jim Brown.

In a subsequent episode, Cavett walked off to the delight of the audience and Maddox himself.

- Maddox was the presidential nominee of George Wallace's American Independent Party, running against the previously mentioned Carter. He received 170,373 votes in total (0.21% of the popular vote).

- In 1977, Maddox started a musical comedy act with a Black musician named Bobby Lee Fears- their group was called "The Governor and The Dishwasher":

- Despite his partnership with an African-American, Maddox would attend a KKK rally in 1987, and his last public speech was at a 2001 conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens (labeled a white supremacist group by the SPLC and ADL).

- Maddox suffered from many ailments in his later years (good), such as heart and intestinal issues which required surgery, as well as prostate cancer.