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See larger This 1959 picture provided by NBC shows actor Pernell Roberts from the 'Bonanza' television show. Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's 'Bonanza' at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on 'Trapper John, M.D.,' has died. He was 81. Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western's cast, died of cancer Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/NBC)

This 1959 picture provided by NBC shows actor Pernell Roberts from the "Bonanza" television show. Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's "Bonanza" at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on "Trapper John, M.D.," has died. He was 81. Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western's cast, died of cancer Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/NBC)

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  • FILE - In this June 8, 2008 file photo, actress Rue McClanahan arrives at the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
  • Dixie Carter
  • Gary Coleman
  • Kathryn Grayson, motion picture soprano, rehearses a song Sept. 3, 1950, that she will sing on the radio in New York. Grayson, whose beauty and lilting soprano voice brightened some of the most popular movie musicals of the 1940s and '50s, died Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010 at age 88 at her home in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin, File)
  • Art Linkletter
  • FILE -- In a March 7, 1982 file photo Grammy Award winner Lena Horne, center, is flanked by record producer Quincy Jones, left, holding his Grammy, and Dan Morgenstern, of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, as she displays her award, and the record that earned it, in New York. Singer Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers as a Hollywood and Broadway star famed for her velvety rendition of 'Stormy Weather,' has died at age 92. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm/file)
  • FILE - This June 22, 2001, file photo shows Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen speaking in Urbandale, Iowa. Olsen died Wednesday night, March 10, 2010, at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 69. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)
  • Actress Helen Wagner, who played mild-mannered Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera 'As the World Turns' for more than a half-century and spoke its first words, has died at age 91.
  • In this June 1, 1992 file photo. actress Lynn Redgrave arrives at the Gershwin Theater in New York for the 46th annual Tony Awards. Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of 'Georgy Girl' and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances, died Sunday, May 2, 2010. She was 67. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, file)
  • In a Thursday, June 22, 2000 photo, U.S. American movie star Dennis Hopper poses on a Harley Davidson motorbike at the ground of the world exposition Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood actor-director whose memorable career included the 1969 smash 'Easy Rider,' died Saturday, May 29, 2010 at his Venice, Calif. home, surrounded by family and friends. He was 74.(AP Photo/ Jan Bauer, File)
  • FILE - This May 5, 2002 file photo shows Robert Culp arriving at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration in New York. Culp, the versatile actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the groundbreaking comedy-adventure TV series 'I Spy' and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,' died Wednesday March 24, 2010. He was 79. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, file)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, Peter Graves poses during dedication ceremonies for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. His movie career spanned classics such as 'Stalag 17' to comedies such as 'Airplane!', but he is best remembered by many as the head of the 'Mission: Impossible' force in the 1960s and 70s. According to a publicist, Graves has died in Los Angeles. He was 83. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
  • Actor Corey Haim died March 10, 2010, at 38.
  • Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died Saturday, Feb. 20, of complications from an infection, his family said. He was 85.
  • Doug Fieger, lead singer of the pop group 'The Knack,' in Detroit on Aug. 29, 1998. Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit 'My Sharona,' has died. He was 57. (AP Photo/Paul Warner)
  • Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., speaks during a meeting May 29, 2009, while attending the 'Showcase for Commerce' trade show in Johnstown, Pa. A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
  • Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Texas, holds a British Enfield rifle in his Capitol Hill office in October 1988. According to a hospital spokesperson, Wilson, 76, died of cardiopulmonary arrest in Lufkin, Texas, Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)
  • This undated photo provided by the Discovery Channel shows Capt. Phil Harris. Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show 'Deadliest Catch', has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night Feb. 9, 2010. He was 53. (AP Photo/Discovery Channel, Blair Bunting) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALES. EDITORIAL USE ONLY
  • In this undated image released by NBC, actress Frances Reid, from the NBC daytime drama, 'Days of our Lives,' is shown. Reid, 95, who played matriarch Alice Horton on NBC's 'Days of Our Lives' for four decades, died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Los Angeles, the network says.
  • Bob Guccione had tried the seminary and spent years trying to make it as an artist before he found the niche that Hugh Hefner left for him in the late 1960s.
  • FILE - In this 1951 file photo, J.D. Salinger, author of 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'Nine Stories', and 'Franny and Zooey' is shown. (AP Photo, file)
  • This 1959 picture provided by NBC shows actor Pernell Roberts from the 'Bonanza' television show. Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's 'Bonanza' at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on 'Trapper John, M.D.,' has died. He was 81. Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western's cast, died of cancer Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/NBC)
  • All My Children star James Mitchell died Jan. 22, 2010
  • In this May, 24, 1950, photo, Jean Simmons, British screen actress, holds the trophy she receives in London after being voted her country's No. 1 film actress of the year in the fifth National Film Award ballot. Simmons, the stunning beauty who sang with Marlon Brando in 'Guys and Dolls' and played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. She was 80. (AP Photo, File)
  • In this 1963, file photo, Milwaukee Braves manager Bobby Bragan is shown. Bragan, the longtime baseball man who managed Braves Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn, died Thursday night, Jan. 21, 2010, at his Fort Worth, Texas, home, his Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation said. He was 92. Bragan was dubbed 'Mr. Baseball' for his decades of dedication to the game. (AP Photo/File)
  • Teddy Pendergrass, right, performs Aug. 1, 2000, at the Good Neighbor Community Outreach Celebration Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000 in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 at age 59. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett/file)
  • Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie 'Love Story,' died of a heart attack on Jan. 19, 2010. He was 72.
  • In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, Casey Johnson arrives at the grand opening of Apple Lounge in West Hollywood, Calif. Spokesman Jesse Derris said Monday Jan. 4, 2010, Johnson was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
  • In a Saturday, Jan. 30, 1983 photo, actor John Forsythe celebrates after accepting the Golden Globe Award for best actor in a dramatic television series. (AP Photo/McClendon, File)
  • Christopher Cazenove
  • Actress Dorothy Provine, best known for her roles as Milton Berle's wife and Ethel Merman's daughter in 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' and the high-kicking flapper in the 1960s TV series 'The Roaring 20s,' has died. She was 75.
  • This picture provided by Magic Sound Productions on November 1984 shows Marvin Isley of the group Isley-Jasper-Isley. Marvin Isley, the bass player who helped give R&B powerhouse the Isley Brothers their distinctive sound, died at a Chicago hospital on Sunday, June 6, 2010, according to a hospital spokesperson. He was 56. (AP Photo/Magic Sound Productions)
  • In this April 21, 2008 file photo, actress Patricia Neal is shown during an interview in Nashville, Tenn. Neal, who won an Oscar in 1964 for 'Hud' and later fought back from crippling strokes, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, at age 84. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
  • FILE - American singer Eddie Fisher is seen at the Savoy in London, England in this Aug. 17, 1954 file photo. Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, died Wednesday night Sept. 22, 2010 of complications from hip surgery at a hospital in Berkeley. He was 85. (AP Photo, File)
  • In this March 23, 1998 file photo, actress Gloria Stuart arrives at the 70th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Stuart was nominated for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in the film 'Titanic.' (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2007 file photo, U.S. director Arthur Penn winks during a photo-call at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin 'Berlinale' in Berlin where he was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement. Penn, director of such film classics as 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Little Big Man,' died Tuesday night Sept. 28, 2010, a day after his 88th birthday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
  • 'Last Comic Standing' judge, Greg Giraldo, dies after drug overdose at age 44.
  • Tony Curtis
  • Solomon Burke, the king of rock and soul - a title that Burke has embraced ever since a Baltimore disc jockey is said to have hung it on him in 1964 - poses in his red velvet throne in his Los Angeles home in this April 21, 2005 file photo. Burke has died at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Airport police spokesman Robert van Kapel confirmed the death of the singer Sunday Oct. 10, 2010. He was 70. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2007 file photo, Jerry Mathers, Barbara Billingsley, and Tony Dow, cast of 'Leave It To Beaver', pose for a photo as they are reunited in Santa Monica, Calif., to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show. Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in 'Leave it to Beaver,' has died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. She was 94. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
  • In this Aug. 23, 2003 file photo, actor James MacArthur holds a photo from the late 1940s, of himself as a child with his mother, actress Helen Hayes and Bob Hope, as he arrives for 'The Bob Hope Memorial Tribute' show at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences headquarter in Los Angeles. MacArthur, who played 'Dano' in the original version of television's 'Hawaii Five-0' and was the son of actress Helen Hayes and playwright Charles MacArthur, died on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. He was 72. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)
  • In this undated photo released by CBS, James 'Jimmy' Wall, Captain Kangaroo's neighbor 'Mr. Baxter' on the children's show and longtime stage manager for CBS News, is shown at the Director’s Guild of America and N.Y. Headquarters in New York. Wall died at his New York City home on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 after a short illness. He was 92. (AP Photo/CBS, Mark Mahaney)
  • This July 26, 1994, file photo shows Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson smiling as he looks out from the dugout prior to the start of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, in Detroit. Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousands Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. Anderson family's said in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, they appreciate the support and kindness that friends and fans have shown throughout the Hall of Famer's career and retirement. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)
  • In this April 9, 2006 file photo, Actress Jill Clayburgh arrives to the opening night of the play 'Festen,' on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, in New York. Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career stretched through the decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a divorcee exploring her sexuality in the 1978 film 'An Unmarried Woman,' died Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. She was 66. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)
  • In this April 9, 2006 file photo, Actress Jill Clayburgh arrives to the opening night of the play 'Festen,' on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, in New York. Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career stretched through the decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a divorcee exploring her sexuality in the 1978 film 'An Unmarried Woman,' died Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. She was 66. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)
  • In this March 27, 1957, photo, Dino De Laurentiis holds the Oscars awarded to him and Carlo Ponti for the best foreign language film, 'La Strada,' at the Academy Awards presentations in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Calif. De Laurentiis, a film impresario and producer of 'Serpico,' 'Barbarella' and 'Death Wish,' died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 91. (AP Photo, File)
  • FILE - This 1988 publicity file photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows actor Leslie Nielsen, left, with actress Priscilla Presley in the fim 'The Naked Gun'. The Canadian-born Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in 'Airplane!' and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in 'The Naked Gun' comedies, has died. He was 84. His agent John S. Kelly said the actor died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, at a hospital near his home in Florida where he was being treated for pneumonia. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Steven Schapiro, File)
  • FILE - In this 1990 file photo released by Orion Pictures Corp., American film director Irvin Kershner is seen during the making of 'Robocop II.' The agent for Kershner says the director of the 'Star Wars' sequel 'The Empire Strikes Back' has died at age 87. Agent Derek Maki says in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, that Kershner died during the weekend, but no further details are available. (AP Photo/Orion Pictures Corp., File) NO SALES
  • FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2010 file photo, Elizabeth Edwards arrives at the 'Stand Up To Cancer' television event at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif. A family friend on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 said Edwards has died after a battle with cancer. She was 61. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
  • IN this March, 1959, file photo, Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller is shown at spring training baseball. Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname 'Rapid Robert' and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the Indians, has died Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. He was 92.
  • Neva Patterson, who played Cary Grant’s fiancee in the 1957 classic “An Affair to Remember,” has died. She was 90.
  • Actor Steve Landesberg died Dec. 20, 2010. He was 65.
  • FILE - In this Feb. 19, 1990 file photo, actor Tom Bosley, poses during an interview in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith, file)
  • In a July 30, 2010 photo Teena Marie sings as she performs at Paul Brown Stadiumin Cincinnati. Marie, the sel-proclaimed 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' was found dead in her Pasadena, Calif., home Sunday Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photyo/The Enquirer/ Joseph Fuqua II)
  • Pop singer Bobby Farrell
  • Jazz great Billy Taylor

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