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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904

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Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein) (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964)

Character actor who played roles in Casablanca (1942) and The Maltese
Falcon (1941). At age 17, he began his acting career on stage, working
with famous artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner.

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VETERAN ACTOR IS DEAD AT 98

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Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

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Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014)

Wallach died on Tuesday, June 24, in New York from natural causes.

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JUNE LOCKHART IS 89 TODAY

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Actress June Lockhart played a motherly figure on the CBS television
series Lassie from 1954 to 1973 and Lost in Space on CBS from 1965
to 1968.

She originally started in theater and made her film debut in A Christmas
Carol
opposite of her actor parents.

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June Lockhart on the set of Lost in Space

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PHIL HARRIS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY

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  Wonga Phillip "Phil" Harris (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995)

Harris was a singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor, and comedian. He
was successful as an orchestra leader, but is remembered today for his
recordings as a vocalist, and his voice work in animation, one being Baloo
in Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). Phil Harris was also a pioneer in radio 
situation comedy, first with Jack Benny, and then in a series in which he co- 
starred with his wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years. 

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Phil Harris and Alice Faye

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FILM RELEASED 25 YEARS AGO TODAY

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Michael Keaton

Batman, a 1989 film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jon
Peters, is the first installment of the Warner Bros.initial Batman
film series
 and was a critical and financial success, earning over
$400 million in box office totals.

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