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popular name: John Agar

date_of_death: April 7, 2002

age: 81

cause_of_death: Emphysema

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: John Agar was an American film and television actor best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Insecure in his acting ability (with just cause, critics would say) John Agar was often the tall, handsome and static male hero, a secondary male lead to such charismatic actors as John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas. In his later career he was the star of dozens of B movies such as Tarantula!, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Revenge of the Creature, Flesh and the Spur and Hand of Death. Agar's career suffered in the wake of his divorce, but he developed a niche playing leading men in low-budget science fiction, Western, and horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s. John Wayne gave him several supporting roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In later years he worked extensively in television before his passing in 2002.

popular name: Alice Faye

date_of_death: May 9, 1998

age: 83

cause_of_death: Stomach cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Although may be a little forgotten after all these years, Alice Faye was one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career in the 1940s. Ms. Faye's warm, husky contralto and demure sexuality in ''Tin Pan Alley,'' ''Hello, Frisco, Hello'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' made her one of Hollywood's top 10 moneymaking stars in 1938 and 1939. Under contract to 20th Century Fox for a little over a decade, during which she made 32 movies, Ms. Faye walked out in 1945 after Darryl Zanuck, the studio's leader, chopped up her scenes in ''Fallen Angel'' to highlight the performance of a younger Fox star, Linda Darnell. While an accomplished actress with such film hits as In Old Chicago, Rose of Washington Square and Lillian Russell, she was also a talented singer. Irving Berlin was once quoted as saying that he would choose Faye over any other singer to introduce his songs, and George Gershwin and Cole Porter called her the "best female singer in Hollywood in 1937". During her years as a musical superstar (from the 1930s to the early 1940s), Alice Faye managed to introduce 23 songs to the Hit Parade and was the first female crooner and equivalent to Bing Crosby. In May 1941, she married bandleader Phil Harris. Their marriage, one of the most successful in Hollywood, became a plotline in the hit radio comedy, The Jack Benny Program, where for 16 years Harris was a regular cast member. in 1946. The Harrises' gently tart comedy sketches made them the show's stars. By 1948 the show became a strictly situation comedy with a music interlude each from husband and wife and was renamed The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.

popular name: Jack Lemmon

date_of_death: June 27, 2001

age: 76

cause_of_death: Bladder cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Born the only child of a wealthy Boston family (his father was president of a baking company) Jack Lemmon was an American actor and musician who, after naval service and graduation from Harvard, headed for New York and fame - with just $300 in his pocket. In his extensive career he starred in over 60 films, received 8 Academy Award nominations, and won twice for his roles in 'Mister Roberts' and 'Save the Tiger'.