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popular name: Françoise Dorléac

date_of_death: June 26, 1967

age: 25

cause_of_death: Single car crash

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Françoise Dorléac was a beloved French actress whose father was Maurice Dorleac, a stage and screen actor and her mother, Renee Deneuve, re-voiced Hollywood movies (including Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz). However most American's would know her as the older sister of Catherine Deneuve. Francoise Dorleac made her first stage appearance at age 10 and debuted on film in a short, Mesonges, in 1957. Supporting herself as a model for Dior, she studied acting at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique. From 1960 – 1967 she appeared in 16 films including Philippe de Broca’s That Man from Rio (1964) co-starring Jean-Paul BelmondoIn Europe, Francois Truffaut’s The Soft Skin (1964) and Roger Vadim’s remake of La Ronde (1964) with Jane Fonda and Anna Karina. At the time Francoise was so popular she would be likened to Garbo and Dietrich. In the U.S. Look magazine would feature a June 1965 spread on "The Sister Stars of France," spotlighting 'sweet' Catherine and 'soignee' Francoise. In the final years of her very short life, Françoise Dorléac co-starred in the films "Billion Dollar Brain", "Genghis Khan" with Omar Sharif and James Mason, and "Where the Spies Are", a spy spoof with David Niven. Decades after her passing, a reporter would ask Catherine Deneuve what the low point of her life so far had been. She would pause and softly speak of the death of Françoise. She remembered her sister as a fine actress, a beautiful woman and "my closest friend."

popular name: Richard Frank

date_of_death: August 27, 1995

age: 42

cause_of_death: Complications from AIDS

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Richard Frank was an American actor and a graduate of The Julliard School in New York City. He was perhaps best known as Father Vogler in the 1984 academy award winning movie Amadeus. Frank had numerous guest appearances in television shows including Remington Steele, Cagney and Lacey, Night Court, Valarie and the Larry Sanders Show along with a regular role in the sitcom Anything but Love. By 1993, Frank had gone public with his affliction with AIDS and to preserve his health he elected to move to the director's chair in 1995. That year, an episode of Mad About You he directed was slated to be the first of many such jobs for the actor, but ultimately it became his final work in show business. He was laid to rest at Sharon Memorial Park in Sharon, Massachusetts.

popular name: John Heard

date_of_death: July 21, 2017

age: 71

cause_of_death: Cardiac arrest due to atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: John Heard engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television and theatre from the mid-1970s onwards. With well over 200 films and TV appearances he received two Obie Awards and an Emmy nomination for his work on the Sopranos. But, in his own words, John went from being "a young leading man to being just kind of a hack actor" with his one regret that he didn't go after bigger parts. Nonetheless, we still have memories of John opposite Tom Hanks in Big, his role in Home Alone and, of course, his role as George in the movie that combines the best of sharks and tornadoes - Sharknado!