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popular name: Jean-Claude Brialy

date_of_death: May 30, 2007

age: 74

cause_of_death: Cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: For most cinéphiles outside his native France, Jean-Claude Brialy was mainly associated with the Nouvelle Vague, in which he was a principal actor. But at home he went on to become one of the most prominent figures in the arts, prolific in films, on television and in the theatre; a brilliant raconteur with the air of a boulevardier, he was also one of the few French stars to be openly gay. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961) and Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970). Upon his death, he was laid to rest at Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, France.

popular name: Jackie Coogan

date_of_death: March 1, 1984

age: 69

cause_of_death: Heart failure

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Jackie Coogan was an actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him the first child star in the history of Hollywood. The son of a vaudevillian and an actress, Coogan appeared in his first film, Skinner’s Baby (1916), when he was 18 months old. Charlie Chaplin later noticed him in a stage act and featured him, aged 6, in The Kid, which gave him immediate international fame and led to roles in such films as Peck’s Bad Boy (1921), My Boy (1921), Trouble (1922), Oliver Twist (1922), Daddy (1923), Circus Days (1923), Long Live the King (1923), A Boy of Flanders (1924), Little Robinson Crusoe (1924), Old Clothes (1925), The Bugle Call (1927), Tom Sawyer (1930), and Huckleberry Finn (1931). In 1923–24 he was making $22,000 a week and earning 60 percent of the profits from his pictures. It was estimated that he was paid $4 million dollars before the age of 21 (valued at approximately $50 million in 2024). Upon turning 21, when he inquired about his trust fund and found out that all but $100,000 was left as his mother and step-father used all his money for a lavish lifestyle. During World War II Coogan served in the U.S. Army Air Force. At the end of enlistment, Jackie went on to appears in dozens and dozens of television and movie appearances including Ozzie and Harriett, Cowboy G-Men, Peter Gunn, McKeever and the Colonel, Perry Mason, The Red Skelton Hour and, of course, as the iconic Uncle Fester in the Addams Family television series.

popular name: Ozzie Nelson

date_of_death: June 3, 1975

age: 69

cause_of_death: Liver cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Oswald Nelson big band leader, actor, director, and producer. But he is most well known as the patient, loving father Ozzie Nelson with his lovely wife Harriet in once of America's most beloved TV shows. For 14 years, from 1952 to 1966, ”The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” was a television staple, an American icon, which may have preceded ”Seinfeld” as the first show that was really about nothing. (The Nelsons made an extraordinary 435 episodes; by contrast, there are 180 episodes of ”Seinfeld.”). Unlike ”Leave It to Beaver,” which ran six years, and ”Father Knows Best,” which lasted nine, ”Ozzie and Harriet” may have endured far longer because the Nelson family blurred the line between fiction and reality. The show actually began on radio in 1944, with Ozzie and Harriet playing themselves and actors portraying the boys. Their real sons joined the show in 1949, and the whole family made the transition to television.