Singer Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff) began her career as a big
band singer in 1939. Her popularity began to rise after her first hit single, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945.
Day has since retired from acting and performing, but has continued her
work in animal rights causes and animal welfare. She currently lives in
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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Actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds had her first leading role in
Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Other successful films include Tammy and the
Bachelor (1957), in which her version of “Tammy” reached the number
one spot on the music charts; and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964).
Reynolds married singer Eddie Fisher in 1955. They had two children,
a daughter Carrie and a son Todd. She continues to perform on stage,
television and film to this day.
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Richard Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013)
LONDON (AP) – Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played
the boy wizard’s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the “Harry Potter” movies,
has died.
Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier
of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry,
central England.
He paid tribute to Griffiths as “a remarkable man and one of our greatest
and best-loved actors.”
Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles — the hero’s grudging Muggle
guardian in the “Harry Potter” series, and flamboyant Uncle Monty in 1980s
cult classic “Withnail and I.”
“I was proud to say I knew him,” said “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe.
Leonard Simon Nimoy is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Spock
in the original Star Trek series (1966–1969). He began acting at age
8 in local theater productions, despite his parents’ reservations.
