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William Hurt. William McChord Hurt[ 1][ 2] (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. He is widely known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various awards including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor . Hurt studied at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in ...
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best ...
Lists of deaths by year. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in August 2024) and then linked here.
Chadwick Aaron Boseman ( / ˈboʊzmən /; [ 5] November 29, 1976 [ a] – August 28, 2020) was an American actor, known for portraying African-American historical figures and the fictional African superhero Black Panther. During his two-decade career, Boseman received accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award ...
Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( / ˈboʊɡɑːrt / BOH-gart; [ 1] December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor colloquially nicknamed Bogie. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. [ 2] In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of ...
Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Emmy Awards . Arkin performed in the sketch comedy group The Second City ...
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).
For his role in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), he earned his second Primetime Emmy Award. Murray reprised his original Ghostbusters role of Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). In 2016, Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.