Robert Swan, the veteran character actor who appeared in key
roles in the notable sports films Hoosiers, Rudy and The Babe, 
died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer at his home in
Rolling Prairie, Indiana.

Swan also portrayed a Canadian Mountie in Brian De Palma’s
The Untouchables (1987) and a bloodied deputy in Oliver
Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) and was other lawmen in
Who’s That Girl (1987) and Mo’ Money (1992).

Robert Swan in Natural Born Killers.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

    William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023)

   
LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning
director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the
gripping “The French Connection” and the horrifying “The
Exorcist” and struggled in the following decades to match
his early success has died. He was 87.

Friedkin died from heart failure and pneumonia at his home
in Bel Air, Los Angeles.

Friedkin (left) on set of The Exorcist.

Filmed in Portland, Oregon (2003).

“The Kinks” Band members (L-R) John Dalton, John Gosling, Mick Avory, Dave Davies, Ray Davies.

John Gosling (February 6, 1948 – August 4, 2023)

Gosling joined The Kinks in 1970, after a successful audition
of the band’s song "Lol.” "He was replaced by Gordon
Edwards in 1978.

In 1994, Gosling founded The Kast Off Kinks, alongside former
band members Mick Avory, Jim Rodford and John Dalton. He
retired in 2008.

SANDY KOZEL

Harry S. Truman
(May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972)

Devastated: Hardly any buildings in Hiroshima were left
standing after the massive atomic bomb blast.