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Paul Bogart dies at 92; Emmy-winning TV director

2012-04-18 00:00:00

Paul Bogart, an Emmy Award-winning director who launched his career during the days of live television in New York and later was a prolific director on the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," has died. He was 92. Bogart died of age-related...

PASSINGS: Sid Melton, Leonard Stone, Liz Anderson, Thomas McNeeley Jr., George Rountree

2011-11-04 00:00:00

Sid Melton Character actor in dozens of TV, film projects Sid Melton, 94, a character actor perhaps best known for his roles in the hit television shows "Green Acres" and "The Danny Thomas Show," died of pneumonia Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph...

Pop culture: A better way to sell the perks of aging to young people

2011-03-09 16:34:46

Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom 'Barney Miller'

2010-12-21 00:00:00

Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom " Barney Miller," has died. He was believed to be 74. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Steve Landesberg: In the Dec. 21 LATExtra section,...

Edwin Newman dies at 91; NBC news reporter and commentator

2010-09-16 00:00:00

Edwin Newman, known to several generations of television viewers as the dry-witted NBC reporter and commentator who covered coronations and assassinations and wrote two bestselling books on Americans' mangling of the English language, has died. He was 91....

Rue McClanahan dies at 76; star of the hit TV series 'The Golden Girls'

2010-06-04 00:00:00

Rue McClanahan, an actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sassy, man-crazy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. McClanahan died early Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of...

'Golden Girls' leading lady Rue McClanahan dies at 76

2010-06-03 16:33:37

THE SCENIAC: Rue McClanahan - 'Golden' with the gays

2007-05-04 12:48:03

Scientific tests would surely reveal that it is humanly impossible not to love "The Golden Girls"--the '80s era show about four older women who share a home in Miami--and for a certain type of gay man it is practically a prerequisite. So it should come...

Actors, actresses and entertainers

2008-12-28 00:00:00

Actors, actresses and entertainers Maila Nurmi, 85; actress created the character Vampira as hostess of late-night TV horror show (Jan. 10) Jack Eagle, 81; a comedian and actor who played Brother Dominic in a Xerox ad during the 1977 Super Bowl (Jan....

Bea Arthur dies at 86; star of 'Golden Girls' and 'Maude'

2009-04-26 00:00:00

Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom "Maude" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden Girls," died Saturday. She was 86. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: The obituary of...

Catching a new wave

2004-06-10 00:00:00

Forty years ago, when he was all of 23, Miller Fong sketched a chair on an envelope and mailed it to his father in Hong Kong, where the family manufactured rattan and wicker furniture for its Los Angeles company, Tropi-Cal. The finished product —...

Writers' Rejection of Pact May Further Slow Industry

1988-06-24 00:00:00

By a wide margin, members of the Writers Guild of America voted to reject a producers' contract offer and continue their 16-week-old strike against the motion picture and television industry, the union reported Thursday. Of 3,722 votes cast, 2,789, or...

The veteran actor taught at UC Riverside before leaving to pursue a career on stage, film and TV. He appeared in "The Sting " and "Love and Death" on the big screen and "Rhoda" and "The Golden Girls" on TV. He was 86. Full obituary Notable deaths of 2010 Notable film and television deaths of 2010

2010-09-14 12:04:27

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Harold Gould , a versatile actor who appeared in movies such as 'The Sting ' and 'Patch Adams' and TV shows like 'Rhoda' and 'The Golden Girls' died on September 11, 2010 of prostate cancer .

2010-09-14 10:00:09

Rue McClanahan, top, with Bea Arthur, left, Estelle Getty and Betty White, won an Emmy for her role as Blanche Devereaux, a sassy Southern belle on the hit series "The Golden Girls," which ran from 1985 to 1992. She also played Bea Arthur's best friend in the TV series "Maude" in the early 1970s.

2010-09-02 12:03:28

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