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BRUCE DERN IS 78 TODAY

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Bruce MacLeish Dern 

Dern has appeared in more than 80 feature films, and received Academy
Award
nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1978 film Coming
Home
and Best Actor for the 2013 film Nebraska.

Before fame, Bruce Dern was heavily involved in track as a long distance
runner while in high school.

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1972

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1925

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                 A 17 year old Tony Curtis in the U.S. Navy

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Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)  (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)

Actor Tony Curtis had a film career that spanned six decades, but had his
greatest popularity was during the 1950s and early 1960s. He appeared in
more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light
comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made many television
appearances. He married actress Janet Leigh in 1951, and their daughter
is actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

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ACTRESS BEVERLY LONG IS DEAD AT 81

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Beverly Long (April 18, 1933 – May 8, 2014)

Beverly Long, one of the last surviving cast members of the 1955 James
Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause, died May 8 in Los Angeles after a
short hospital stay. Long also had a lead role in the 1958 film “The Green-
Eyed Blond”, appeared in Paramount’s As Young as We Are (1958) and
was seen on Robert Young’s CBS sitcom Father Knows Best.”

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Long, second from the right, in a scene from “Rebel Without A Cause”

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EFREM ZIMBALIST JR. HAS DIED AT 95

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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (November 30, 1918 – May 2, 2014)

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.,best remembered for his role in the long-running
ABC television series "77 Sunset Strip" (1958-1964) and even the
longer running ABC-TV hit "The F.B.I.(1965-1974)," died Friday at 
his home in California of natural causes

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ACTOR BOB HOSKINS HAS DIED AT 71

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Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr.  (October 26, 1942 – April 29, 2014)

LONDON (AP) – British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir
drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died. A  
family statement released Wednesday by publicist Clair Dobbs said Hoskins died
in a hospital after a bout of pneumonia. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease in 2012.

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