Richard D. Zanuck

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Film producer Richard D. Zanuck, who won the best
picture Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" and was involved in such blockbuster
films as "Jaws" and "The Sting" after his father, Hollywood mogul Darryl F.
Zanuck, fired him from 20th Century Fox, died of a heart attack at his
Beverly Hills home Friday.

Richard  Zanuck, right, with Steven Spielberg on the set of Jaws

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Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota) is 61
today. She is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television
series Charlie’s Angels, hired prior to its second season in 1977 to replace
the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained with the show until its
cancellation in 1981.

High School yearbook, 1965

Sylvester Stallone (Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone) is known for his
macho action roles in films such as boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John
Rambo. Stallone was voted into boxing’s Hall of Fame in 2010.

Rambo: First Blood, 1982

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            Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982)

Actor Warren Oates was best known for his roles in several films directed
by Sam Peckinpah including The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the
Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). He starred in numerous films during the
early 1970s which have since achieved cult status including The Hired
Hand (1971), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Race with the Devil
(1975). Oates also portrayed Sergeant Hulka in Stripes (1981).

Gunsmoke episode, "Circus Trick" from 1965

Warren Oates in Stripes

    Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith (June 1, 1926–July 3, 2012) 

Andy Griffith was a television icon, best known as the sage town
sheriff in the ’60s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and as a defense
attorney on 1980s-’90s drama Matlock. He died today in Roanoke
Island, N.C.

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