ALL THINGS: We Hardly Knew Ye?

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Joe Cocker has died at 70

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Oscar Double-Winner Luise Rainer Was 104

Hollywood actress Luise Rainer, who won back-to-back Oscars in the 1930s, has died at the age of 104. Until her death, she was the oldest living Oscar winner. Rainer died of pneumonia Tuesday at her London home, according to daughter Francesca.

Rainer won her twin best actress Oscars for 1936 biopic “The Great Ziegfeld,” drawing the nod despite a fairly small role as impresario Florenz Ziegfeld’s first wife, and 1937’s “The Good Earth,” an adaptation of the novel by Pearl S. Buck in which the heavily, if charmingly, accented Austrian-German actress played a humble Chinese peasant.

The high expectations generated by her Oscar achievements did not, however lead to much further success in Hollywood. Some say the death of her producer at MGM, Irving Thalberg, as well as bad advice from her husband, the playwright Clifford Odets, contributed to the precipitous decline in her career.
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Richard Graydon, Stuntman for James Bond Films, Dies at 92
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British stuntman Richard Graydon, who performed in 10 James Bond films, died Dec. 22 at 92, The Telegraph reported in an obituary.

His first screen credit was in 1952, as one of Robin Hood's "merrie men" in the Disney film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men.

His stunt career started in 1963 with From Russia With Love, according to The Telegraph. It was followed by Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965). Graydon became a staple in Bond films for decades, adding seven more to his movie roster: A View to a Kill, Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.

Graydon's work occasionally required performing death-defying feats, like getting shot out of a cannon in Octopussy's circus, sliding down a chain to an aerial tram dangling over an abyss in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and fighting Jaws atop an aerial tram hundreds of feet above Rio de Janeiro for Moonraker, according to The Telegraph.

Over the course of his career, Graydon performed or coordinated stunts in dozens of other films, including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Batman, Willow, Pathfinder, Pirates, Ladyhawke, A Passage to India, Ordeal by Innocence, Champions, Raiders of the Lost Ark, International Velvet, Star Wars: Episode IV, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Royal Flash, Don’t Look Now, Where Eagles Dare and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Christine Cavanaugh, 51, Was The Voice Of Babe , “Chuckie” On “Rugrats” And Other Popular Cartoon Characters

Her acting career started in 1988, with her big break in 1991 when she used her amazing talent to bring Goslyn Duck from Dark Wing Duck to life. She did too many things in her career to list including TV and movie appearances. Some of her major career accomplishments includes her voice as Chuckie (Rugrats 1991-2003), Marty Sherman (The Critic 1994-1995), Oblina (Ahhhhh Real Monsters 1994-1997), Babe (Babe 1995), and Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory 1996-2003).
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Kurosawa’s cinematographer Takao Saito has died at age 85

Akira Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator, cinematographer Takao Saito passed away on December 6 of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He was 85.

Born in Kyoto on 5 March 1929, Saito joined Toho studios in 1946. His paths crossed with Kurosawa’s immediately, as he started working on One Wonderful Sunday, released in 1947, as his first assignment. The young cameraman became an indispensable Kurosawa regular from Ikiru (1952) onwards, from then on working on all of Kurosawa’s films, except for Dersu Uzala, which the director shot in the Soviet Union with a local crew. Saito also worked with other directors, although his main body of work can be said to have been with Kurosawa.
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Rest in Peace: David Ryall
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Word of another highly regarded actor’s passing arrived today as we mourn the death of David Ryall, most well known as Elphias Doge in 2010’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, but who also appeared in the original 1989 British TV-movie “The Woman in Black.” He was 79.

Other horror projects in which Ryall was featured include The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse and the TV series “Crooked House” and “Witchcraft.” His other film roles included parts in 2004’s Around the World in 80 Days; 1990’s Truly, Madly, Deeply; and 1980’s The Elephant Man.

Per BBC News, the actor passed away on Christmas Day 2014. The cause of death was not given, but his daughter Charlie, also an actress, said via Twitter: “Please take a moment to remember his huge five-decade-spanning career outside of the more well-known TV & film. Not just Harry Potter.” She added, “Not that I don’t love Harry Potter. I do, I do. But there’s so much more.”
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Donna Douglas, best known for her role as the tomboy, critter-loving Elly May Clampett on the 1960s fish-out-of-water CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, died on New Year’s Day, according to WAFB Channel 9 in Louisiana, which cited family members. She was 81.
 
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