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Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank / b l æ ŋ k /; [2] [3] May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) [4] was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. . During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy ...
The cause of death was a heart attack. 1997: English actor Anthony Wheeler died by strangulation while playing Judas Iscariot at a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar in Chalkidiki, Greece. He hanged himself after failing to attach the rope to a safety harness that would have kept pressure from his neck, though he had successfully performed ...
Beatrice Benaderet was born on April 4, 1906, [1] [2] [3] [note 1] in New York City. [4] [6] [7] Her mother, Margaret (née O'Keefe), was Irish American, [8] [9] and her father, Samuel David Benaderet, [10] a Sephardic Jewish emigrant from what is now Turkey, [11] was a tobacconist who relocated the family from New York City to San Francisco in 1915 after his participation in the Panama ...
June Foray (born June Lucille Forer; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, Grammi Gummi from Disney's ...
Upon his death, Benny's family donated his personal, professional and business papers, as well as a collection of his television shows, to UCLA. The university established the Jack Benny Award for Comedy in his honor in 1977 to recognize outstanding people in the field of comedy. Johnny Carson was the first award recipient. [35]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Michel Blanc, the French actor known for the “Les Bronzés” films and crime drama “Monsieur Hire,” has died. He was 72. Blanc died early Friday morning after suffering a heart attack the ...
Gregory Lewis Burson (June 29, 1949 – July 22, 2008) was an American voice actor. He was best known for being one of the many successors to voice actors Daws Butler (who was also Burson's mentor) and Mel Blanc following their deaths in 1988 and 1989 respectively.