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popular name: Cameron Mitchell

date_of_death: July 6, 1994

age: 75

cause_of_death: Lung cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Burly, tough-guy leading man and character actor famous as the hard-drinking, hardworking Buck Cannon on the TV series "High Chaparral." Mitchell began acting on Broadway in the late 1930s before signing a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appearing in such films as Cass Timberlane (1945) and Homecoming (1948). After playing many character roles and occasional leads in B action films and Westerns, Mitchell began to make some headway after playing Happy, one of Willy Loman's (Fredric March) sons in a film adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" (1951). A breakthrough into big-budget, big-star films came when he was one of the three male consorts paired up with Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953). Prominent leads--as in "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955), opposite Doris Day and James Cagney--continued for a number of years. Throughout the 1960s, he appeared in spaghetti Westerns and Italian films―including several collaborations with director Mario Bava―then on U.S. television. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he appeared in numerous exploitation and horror films and television shows including The Toolbox Murders, Slaughter and The Tomb.

popular name: Kevin Coughlin

date_of_death: January 19, 1976 ·

age: 30

cause_of_death: Struck by automobile

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Kevin Coughlin was an American actor who made his debut on television on “The Children's Hour” in 1950. His television debut in a series was on his seventh birthday, on December 12, 1952, on the memorable show "Mama", where he would stay as a regular for four years. In 1956 Kevin starred in his first film, the highly controversial drama "Storm Center". Kevin went on to appear in a number of TV dramas, of which only "A Trip to Czardis" and "The Ballad of Huckleberry Finn" can be seen at the Museum of Television and Radio. After starring in two more films, the hilarious "Happy Anniversary" and the bold classic "The Defiant Ones", his career seemed to fizzle. There are few roles in the early sixties. His motion picture credits include “Wild in the Streets,” “Gay Deceivers,” “The Defiant Ones” and “Young Runaways.” and he appeared on Broadway in Carson McCullers's “The Square Root of Wonderful,” Oscar Hammerstein's “The King and I,” and Nathaniel Benchley's comedy “The Frogs of Spring.” Sadly, in the early morning hours of January 10, 1976, as Kevin was cleaning his windshield on Ventura Boulevard 1500 feet North of Whitsett, he was hit by a speeding car. Suffering from broken legs and a broken hip, Kevin lingered for 10 days at the hospital before passing away due to bronchial pneumonia, never regaining consciousness. He was laid to rest at Gate of Heaven Cemetery Hawthorne, New York.

popular name: Jason Robards

date_of_death: December 26, 2000

age: 78

cause_of_death: Lung cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Recognized around the world as the definitive interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill throughout his long and esteemed career, Jason Robards has been hailed as one of this country's finest stage actors and acclaimed for his outstanding work in film and on television. Ellis Rabb, who directed Robards in a 1980s revival of the classic American comedy You Can't Take It with You, put into words what Robards demonstrates every time he steps onto a stage or in front of a camera: "Robards can do anything, from O'Neill to light comedy to Shakespeare, a range we seldom see in this country." After starring in such movies as Philadelphia, Crimson Tide, Melvin and Howard, and Julia, by the end of his career Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is only one of 24 performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. Upon his death, he was laid to rest at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield, CT.