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SON OF FAMOUS ACTOR HAS DIED AT AGE 77

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Mickey Rooney Jr. (July 3, 1945 – July 16, 2022)


Rooney was an actor and the eldest son of the actor
Mickey Rooney.

He operated the Rooney Entertainment Group, a film and television production company. Mickey Rooney Jr. was a born-again Christian
who had an evangelical ministry in
Hemet, California.

After appearing as a "Mouseketeer" in the Mickey Mouse Club in
1955 along with his brother Tim, he played his first film role in 1967
in Hot Rods to Hell
.


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Mickey Rooney
(September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014)

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ACTION FILM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1988

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On July 15, 1988, Die Hard, an action film starring Bruce Willis as wisecracking New York City cop John McClane, opened in theaters
across the U.S.  A huge box-office hit, the film established Willis
as a movie star and spawned three sequels. Die Hard also became Hollywood shorthand for describing the plot of other actions films,
as in “Speed is Die Hard on a bus.”

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Walter Bruce Willis turned 67 in March.

On March 30, 2022, Willis’s family announced that
he was retiring as he had been diagnosed with
aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the area
of the brain that controls language expression and
comprehension.


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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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Actor Harrison Ford is the recipient of various accolades, including
the
AFI Life Achievement Award and the Cecil B. DeMille Award, in 
addition to nominations for an
Academy Award and four Golden
Globe Awards
. He has been a leading man in films of several
genres. Ford is 80 years old today.

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CULTURAL ICON IS 66 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known
for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most
popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as
an American cultural icon. Hanks’s films have grossed more than
$4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America.

Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in a series of
comedy films which received positive media attention, such as
Splash (1984), Bachelor Party (1984), and Big (1988) He won two consecutive
Academy Awards
for Best Actor for starring as a gay
lawyer suffering from
AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title
character
in Forrest Gump (1994).

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The Money Pit (1986)

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Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on 
five films including: Saving Private Ryan (above) (1998.

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Hanks in Apollo 13 (1995).

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Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)

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COMIC ACTOR LARRY STORCH HAS DIED

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Lawrence Samuel Storch (January 8, 1923 – July 8, 2022)

Larry Storch, the manic actor who starred as the bumbling sidekick Corporal Randolph Agarn on the 1960s ABC sitcom F Troop, has
died. He was 99.

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