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popular name: Lisa Robin Kelly

date_of_death: August 15, 2013

age: 43

cause_of_death: Oral ingestion - multiple drug intoxication

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Lisa Robin Kelly was a talented Hollywood actress best known as the flirty character Laurie Forman on the television sitcom "That '70s Show". Kelly was a cheerleader in high school who graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a bachelors degree in Fine Arts. Upon moving to Hollywood after graduation, Kelly began landing screen parts during the early 1990s, notably featured on "Murphy Brown", "Married with Children", "The X-Files", and "Charmed" among other series, and making a rare movie appearance in the low-budget horror sequel "Amityville: Dollhouse" in 1996 and "Jawbreaker". In 1998, she found her signature part as the vapid and promiscuous Laurie on "That '70s Show," a role that she held fairly steadily until drinking problems got in the way of her performances in the middle of the 3rd season. Kelly took a year off and came back for 4 episodes in the 5th seasons only to be removed and replaced. Kelly's post-"That '70s Show" was apparently a troubled one, with her alcoholism leading to a downward spiral that ended in her death in August 2013 while staying at a substance abuse treatment facility. She was laid to rest at Forest Lawn East Cemetery in Matthews, North Carolina.

popular name: Irving Lazar

date_of_death: December 30, 1993

age: 86

cause_of_death: Complications stemming from diabetes and kidney failure

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Irving "Swifty" Lazar was the legendary Hollywood talent agent whose image as a dapper, elfin deal-maker with Coke-bottle glasses and bald dome made him a caricaturist's dream represent some of the greatest talent in Hollywood including Humphrey Bogart, Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Faye Dunaway, Richard M. Nixon, Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, and John Huston (to name a few). Mr. Lazar, who wore trademark oversize dark eyeglasses, called himself the Prince of Pitch (he hated "Swifty") who won record fees for his clients when such mega-deals were unheard of including the sale of Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood" for $500,000, the musical "Camelot" for $1.4 million and he sold Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple" when it was only a five-sentence summary. He also started the tradition for annual Oscar-night parties with his own private annual Oscar-night dinner party at Spago.

popular name: Burt Reynolds

date_of_death: September 6, 2018

age: 82

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Burt Reynolds was an American actor and director, considered a sex symbol and icon of 1970s American popular culture. The wryly appealing Hollywood heartthrob carried on a long love affair with moviegoers even though his performances were often more memorable than the films that contained them. A self-mocking charmer with laugh-crinkled dark eyes, a rakish mustache and a hairy chest that he often bared onscreen, Mr. Reynolds did not always win the respect of critics. But for many years he was ranked among the top 10 movie draws worldwide, and from 1978 through 1982 he ruled the box office as few, if any, stars had done before. Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in television series such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966) and Dan August (1970–1971). Although Reynolds had leading roles in such films as Navajo Joe (1966) and 100 Rifles (1969), his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played the leading role – often a lovable rogue – in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Semi-Tough (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978), Starting Over (1979), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Sharky's Machine (1981), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he directed himself. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Looking back in 2015, Mr. Reynolds expressed regret over the roles he didn’t get and the chances he didn’t take. It was not until he was almost 40, he wrote ruefully, that he decided he “wanted to be respected as an actor and began to think I might be good if I really worked at it.” His best performance, he added, might well be “still ahead of me.” “I may not be the best actor in the world,” he concluded, “but I’m the best Burt Reynolds in the world.”