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popular name: Andy Griffith

date_of_death: July 3, 2012

age: 86

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, southern gospel singer, and writer[2] whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characters with a folksy-friendly personality, and his gruff but friendly voice, Griffith was a Tony Award nominee for two roles, and gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) and No Time for Sergeants (1958) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead roles of Andy Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968) and Ben Matlock in the legal drama Matlock (1986–1995).

popular name: Marie Trintignant

date_of_death: August 1, 2003

age: 41

cause_of_death: Homicide - domestic violence

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Marie Trintignant was a French film and stage actress born into a well known film industry parents as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer and screenwriter. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her shortened 36-year career. She had already made five films before appearing with Patrick Dewaere in her first critical success, Série Noire (1979) at the age of 17. The next milestone in her career was with the Claude Chabrol in his Une Affaire de Femmes (The Story Of Women, 1988) in which she played a young prostitute, Lulu, in wartime Vichy France. After her narrow survival after a serious car accident in 1990, Trintignant hardly allowed the pace of her work to slacken off and during the next decade starred in 21 films, among them Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers On The Bridge, 1991), Betty (1992, again with Chabrol) and Cible Émouvante (Wild Target, 1993) with Jean Rochefort and Guillaume Depardieu. She was a victim of domestic violence when she was murdered by her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat. Upon her death, she was laid to rest at Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris France.

popular name: Allan Sherman

date_of_death: November 20, 1973

age: 48

cause_of_death: Respiratory failure

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Allan Sherman was an American musician, satirist, actor and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960s. In the fall of 1962, if an album sold 10,000 copies, Warner Bros. Records considered it a success. Then Allan Sherman released My Son The Folk Singer, an album of Jewish themed parody songs that sold close to 400,000 copies in three weeks on the way to over one million sales. Among the single recordings that helped to push his annual income beyond $500,000 at the height of his popularity were “Crazy Downtown,” and “Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh,” which described the horrors of a summer camp and won for Mr. Sherman a Grammy Award in 1963 for the best comic performance. But just as quickly as his star rose, Mr. Sherman's saw his popularity vanish post JFK and with the rise of Beatlemania. Audiences lost their desire for his particular form of comedy and the British Invasion dominated the airwaves. In his final years, Sherman's alcoholism and weight gain caused severe deterioration of his health; he later developed diabetes and struggled with lung disease. In 1966, his wife Dee filed for divorce and received full custody of their son and daughter. Sherman lived on unemployment benefits for a time and moved into the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for a short time to lose weight. He died while entertaining his friends during the night of November 20, 1973, at his West Hollywood home.