Richard Edmund Williams (March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019)
LONDON (AP) — Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work
on the bouncing cartoon bunny in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) helped
blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. His
daughter, Natasha Sutton Williams, said the Oscar-winning artist died from
cancer at his home in Bristol, England on Friday.
Dustin Lee Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is a renowned method actor who won the Academy
Award for Best Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Rain Man
in 1988. He had his breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock in the
1967 classic The Graduate and also played leading roles in the films
Midnight Cowboy (1969), Tootsie (1982) and Outbreak (1996).
MIKE GRACIA
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also
appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New
York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut
in 1935, and his career grew after his Academy Award–
nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of
Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck‘s novel
about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the
Dust Bowl.
1939
1957
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)
Born in Tacoma, Washington.
Singer and actor.Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings,
and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. In 1948, American polls
declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson
and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his records
filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded
radio music. Bing Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way.
Bing Crosby (right) gives Bob Hope (left) a golf lesson.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, which
prevented the planned moon landing.
Artists painting showing the explosion on board Apollo 13.
