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Australian film, TV actor Michael Pate dies at 88
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australian actor Michael Pate, who appeared in more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV shows in the 1950s and 60s, has died of respiratory failure at age 88, health officials said Tuesday.
Pate died late Monday at Gosford Hospital on the central coast of New South Wales after being admitted with pneumonia.
Born in Sydney in 1920, Pate began his career as a writer and broadcaster for Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, before moving to the United States.
He spent almost 20 years there, guest starring in various Westerns and a number of popular TV shows including "Batman," "Mission: Impossible," "Get Smart" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
ABC quoted an earlier interview with Pate in which he said he had worked with "some marvelous people," including Marlon Brando, David Niven, John Wayne and Randolph Scott.
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Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies at the age of 71
Sep 2, 1:47 PM (ET)
By JOHN GEROME
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.
Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday morning.
Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and actor.
As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses,""When You're Hot, You're Hot,""East Bound and Down," and "The Bird."
In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds, "Gator""Hot Stuff" and "High-Ballin'."
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Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies
Sep 2, 1:50 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, "In a world where..."
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Ike Pappas, who broadcast Oswald death, dead at 75
Sep 2, 12:01 PM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75.
Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said.
Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "You have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out.
"Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!"
Pappas was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australian actor Michael Pate, who appeared in more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV shows in the 1950s and 60s, has died of respiratory failure at age 88, health officials said Tuesday.
Pate died late Monday at Gosford Hospital on the central coast of New South Wales after being admitted with pneumonia.
Born in Sydney in 1920, Pate began his career as a writer and broadcaster for Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, before moving to the United States.
He spent almost 20 years there, guest starring in various Westerns and a number of popular TV shows including "Batman," "Mission: Impossible," "Get Smart" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
ABC quoted an earlier interview with Pate in which he said he had worked with "some marvelous people," including Marlon Brando, David Niven, John Wayne and Randolph Scott.
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Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies at the age of 71
Sep 2, 1:47 PM (ET)
By JOHN GEROME
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.
Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday morning.
Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and actor.
As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses,""When You're Hot, You're Hot,""East Bound and Down," and "The Bird."
In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds, "Gator""Hot Stuff" and "High-Ballin'."
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Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies
Sep 2, 1:50 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, "In a world where..."
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Ike Pappas, who broadcast Oswald death, dead at 75
Sep 2, 12:01 PM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75.
Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said.
Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "You have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out.
"Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!"
Pappas was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987.
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He was 65. Spokesman David Wright says the Wright died after a battle with cancer.
