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#3361 · January 4, 2025, 12:19 pm
4 January 2024. David Soul died (aged 80). He’s best known for playing detective “Hutch” in the popular TV detective series, Starsky & Hutch. He also had 2 UK No.1 pop hits in 1977 with Don’t Give Up On Us and Silver Lady.
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#3362 · January 5, 2025, 1:12 pm
5 January 1931. Robert Duvall, was born in San Diego, California, USA. He’s one of the best film actors, best known for playing, Tom Hagen in The Godfather, and Godfather II. He turned down the role in Godfather III. His list of other acclaimed films is extensive.
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#3363 · January 5, 2025, 1:13 pm
5 January 1946. Diane Keaton was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She appeared in the Godfather trilogy, but the films that most shaped her comedy acting career were with Woody Allen, most notably, Annie Hall, which won her the Best Actress Oscar.
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#3364 · January 5, 2025, 1:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1956 actress and singer ("Mon Homme"), at one time the highest-paid female entertainer in the world, Mistinguett died in Bougival, France, aged 82. Cimetière Enghien-les-Bains, Île-de-France, France thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/05/day
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#3365 · January 6, 2025, 2:06 pm
6 January 1955. Arthur Bostrom was born in Rugby. He’s best known for playing the British undercover agent, Officer Crabtree, in the BBC TV sitcom, 'Allo 'Allo! Crabtree’s humour is derived from his inability to pronounce French words correctly.
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#3366 · January 6, 2025, 2:06 pm
6 January 1955. Comedy actor Rowan Atkinson was born in Consett, County Durham. He starred in Not The Nine O’Clock News, then Blackadder (pictured) and Mr Bean. He’s regarded as one of the most original British comic talents.
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#3367 · January 6, 2025, 2:06 pm
6 January 1960. TV chef Nigella Lawson was born in London. She’s has been called the “Queen of Food Porn”. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the Conservative Chancellor. Her mother’s family owned the huge, J. Lyons and Company food and catering business.
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#3368 · January 6, 2025, 2:07 pm
6 January 1990. Scottish actor Ian Charleson died of AIDS (aged 40). He was best known for his role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He also played Reverend Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi.
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#3369 · January 6, 2025, 2:07 pm
6 January 2012. TV presenter Bob Holness died (aged 83). He’s best known as presenter of Blockbusters. He did not, however, play the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty’s hit Baker Street. This was a tongue in cheek urban myth created by the broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie.
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#3370 · January 6, 2025, 2:08 pm
6 January 2022. Sidney Poitier died (aged 94). In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field, becoming the 1st black male to win the award. At the time of his death, he was also the oldest living Best Actor Academy Award winner.
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#3371 · January 7, 2025, 1:44 pm
7 January 1964. Nicholas Cage was born in Long Beach, California, USA. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas. Other films include: Peggy Sue Got Married, Con Air, Ghost Rider, Book of Secrets, and Adaptation.
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#3372 · January 7, 2025, 1:45 pm
7 January 1988. British actor Trevor Howard died (aged 74). Two of his best known films were, Brief Encounter (pictured), and The Third Man. He appeared in a very long list of other films, including: Mutiny on The Bounty, Ryan’s Daughter, Von Ryan’s Express, and Gandhi.
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#3373 · January 7, 2025, 1:46 pm
7 January 1995. Popular comedian Larry Grayson died (aged 71). He’s best remembered for hosting the BBC1 series The Generation Game and for many catch phrases, including: “Shut That Door.”
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#3374 · January 7, 2025, 1:46 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2015 actor (The Time Machine, Giant, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Birds, Darker than Amber, The Train Robbers, Inglourious Basterds), Rod Taylor died from a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, aged 81. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/07/day
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#3375 · January 7, 2025, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2021 film director (Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, Nell, James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Enigma, Amazing Grace, Gorky Park) Michael Apted died at his home in Los Angeles aged 79. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/07/day
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#3376 · January 8, 2025, 1:15 pm
8 January 1990. Terry-Thomas (Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens), died (aged 80). He most often portrayed disreputable members of the English upper class in films, especially cads, toffs and bounders using his distinctive posh voice even though he was far from posh.
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#3377 · January 8, 2025, 1:16 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2007, actress (Salome, Where She Danced; The Ten Commandments; McLintock!; The Munsters), dancer, and singer Yvonne De Carlo died of heart failure in Los Angeles at the age of 84. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#3378 · January 8, 2025, 1:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2020, actor (SNL), screen/TV writer (The Graduate, Get Smart), director (Heaven Can Wait) Buck Henry died of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 89. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#3379 · January 9, 2025, 1:57 pm
9 January 1995. Peter Cook died (aged 57). He was a key figure in anti-establishment satire boom in the early 1960s, starring in Beyond the Fringe, founding The Establishment Club, co-founding Private Eye, and being part of the comedy duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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#3380 · January 9, 2025, 3:26 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2019 actress (Medium Cool, High Plains Drifter, Where Have All The People Gone?, The Last Temptation of Christ, Honkytonk Man, Animal House) Verna Bloom died in Bar Harbor, Maine, from complications of dementia aged 80. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/09/day
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