(FOX NEWS) – "Knots Landing" actress Lar Park Lincoln has
died.

Her daughter, Piper Lincoln, confirmed to Fox News Digital
that her mother lost her battle with breast cancer on Tuesday.

Piper shared that the elder Lincoln was surrounded by loved
ones at the time of her death and will always be remembered
as a "great mother and a great actress."

Her dedication to the craft extended to her writing. In 2008,
she wrote the book "Get Started, Not Scammed," as she
offered guidance to actors looking to break into the
entertainment industry.

The primetime television soap opera aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993.

Oscar-winning actor known for playing intense, often violent
characters in "The Godfather," "Dog Day Afternoon" and
"Serpico" is 85 today.

Pacino has won and been nominated for many awards during
his acting career, including nine Oscar nominations. He won
a Best Actor award for “Scent of a Woman” in 1992.

1992

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988)

Roy Orbison was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for
his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures,
and dark, emotional ballads.

Orbison’s music is mostly in the rock music genre and his
most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late
1980s.

William Theodore Kotcheff ( April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025)

A movie and TV legend whose six-decade career included leading
the first installments of two hit movie franchises in the 1980s has
died.

Ted Kotcheff, an accomplished movie and television producer and director died of heart failure on Wednesday, April 10, in Mexico  
just three days after his birthday.

1982

On April 21, 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway
and Gray, demonstrated their “Panopticon,” the first movie
projector developed in the United States.

Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States
for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films
could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not
projected to a large audience.

Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them
develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a
screen in order to attract larger audiences.