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Actor Gary Coleman Dies
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Actor Gary Coleman (1968-2010) was best known as the wise-cracking kid on Diff'rent Strokes, and was frequently cast in roles for his short stature. His genre appearances include...

Short story author George M. Ewing dies
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George M. Ewing (1946-2010) wrote several stories that appeared in Asimov's, as well as a book for scroungers...

Writer/director/actor David E. Durston dies
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David E. Durston (1921-2010) started as an actor, but moved into writing and directing, and created the cult horror classic I Drink Your Blood...

Script supervisor Robert Gary dies
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Film and television script supervisor Robert Gary (1920-2010) worked on four Star Trek series...

Artist Frank Frazetta Dies
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Artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) defined the sword and sorcery genre...

Actor Allen Swift Dies
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Voice actor Allen Swift (1924-2010) appeared in more than 30,000 television and radio commercials, voiced Howdy Doody and Mighty Mouse...

Actress Lynn Redgrave Dies
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Acting icon Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010) was nominated for Golden Globes, Oscars, BAFTA Awards, Tonys, and more. She was awarded an OBE, and appeared in...

Actor Michael Pataki Dies
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Character actor Michael Pataki (1938-2010) was an original Klingon, and had a long career spanning genres and decades...

German filmmaker Werner Schroeter dies
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German filmmaker and stage director Werner Schroeter (1945-2010) was a major force in the New German Cinema of the 1970s, won a slew of film festival awards, and created films such as...

Editor/publisher/writer George H. Scithers dies
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Editor/publisher/writer George H. Scithers (1929-2010) was the founding editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, the editor of Amazing Stories and of Weird Tales, the winner of four Hugos, two World Fantasy Awards...

Film editor Dede Allen dies
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Film editor Dede Allen (1923-2010) earned three Oscar nominations, and worked on The Addams Family, The Wiz, and Slaughterhouse-Five...

British actor James Aubrey dies
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British actor James Aubrey (1947-2010) found his greatest success with his first role, as Ralph in Lord of the Flies...

Munchkin Meinhardt Raabe Dies
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Meinhardt Raabe (1915-2010) appeared in only one film, as the coroner Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz...

Actress Dixie Carter Dies
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Actress Dixie Carter (1939-2010) starred in Designing Women, earned an Emmy nomination for guesting on Desperate Housewives, and appeared in...

Artist John Schoenherr Dies
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Artist John Schoenherr (1935-2010) won a Hugo, Caldecott, and Newbery, and illustrated classics by Frank Herbert and Anne McCaffrey...

Actor John Forsythe Dies
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Actor John Forsythe (1918-2010) won two Golden Globes as Blake Carrington on Dynasty, was the unseen Charlie on Charlie's Angels...

Comic artist Dick Giordano dies
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Comics artist and editor Dick Giordano (1932-2010) had a hand in Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, and crediting authors and artists...

Actor Robert Culp Dies
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Actor Robert Culp (1930-2010) starred in I Spy (for which he lost three Emmys to costar Bill Cosby), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and The Greatest American Hero...

Actor Fess Parker Dies
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Actor Fess Parker (1924-2010) was best known as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone...

Actor Peter Graves Dies
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Actor Peter Graves (1926-2010) was best known as the leader of the team on Mission: Impossible, but was also able to spoof himself in the Airplane! movies. His many genre appearances include...

Actor Corey Haim Dies
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Actor Corey Haim (1971-2010) came to fame in the late 1980s with his starring role in The Lost Boys, and was a three-time Saturn Award nominee...

Actress Nan Martin Dies
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Actress Nan Martin (1927-2010) was known for playing strong women and mothers, including Freddy Krueger's, and Counselor Deanna Troi's almost-mother-in-law...

British author David Storr Unwin, aka David Severn, dies
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British author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010) was a son of Allen & Unwin's Sir Stanley Unwin, and found his own fame as the children's author David Severn...

Artist Robert McCall Dies
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Artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) painted the future for NASA, the US Air Force, the US Postal Service, and films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Star Trek: The Motion Picture...

Actor Andrew Koenig Dies
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Actor Andrew Koenig (1968-2010) was found dead today, apparently of suicide. He was a supporting actor in Growing Pains, and the son of actor Walter Koenig...
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