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Michael Nyqvist has passed away at age 56 from lung cancer.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/micha ... 202479889/

Oh, didn't know it was Lung cancer, bugger. Out of curiosity, was he a smoker? I don't expect anyone to answer that...

He was very good as the villain from John Wick.

George A Romero died today of lung cancer. He was 77.

Just found out - Martin Landau passed away yesterday at 89 years old.

Aw man, Romero and Landau in the same day. Sad news.

Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park, has passed away at 41.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... on-suicide

Really? Suicide it seems. Why does this happen fairly regularly? Drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse or a combo. Sadness

Actor/playwright Sam Shepard passed away on July 27 from Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was 73 years old.

Sadly, I don't remember him from very many movies. I know he played Julia Roberts' lover/teacher in The Pelican Brief, but that's about it.

Also just heard that veteran character actor John Heard passed away this month. He was 72.

He played the dad in "Home Alone", and, like Sam Shepard, was also in "The Pelican Brief" (and, ironically, both of their characters were assassinated in that film).


And:

French actress Jeanne Moreau passed away at the age of 89. Sorry, Chien.

June Foray, who voiced such animated characters as Granny (Looney Tunes), Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Aunt May Parker (Spidey & Friends), Jokey Smurf, Granny again (Tiny Toons), passed away at 99 years old.

Deborah Watling, an English actress who was on Doctor Who in the 1960's (playing the 2nd Doctor's companion Victoria) died on July 21 at 69.

Jerry Lewis has passed away at the age of 91. He died peacefully.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news ... 91-w486027

The original Predator was and is one of my favorite action flicks of all time, so I was saddened by the death of Sonny Landham, who folks will remember as Billy, the big Indian from that movie (and also as a baddie in 48 HRS.)

Who can forget his immortal line from that movie... "We're all gonna die."

Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and credited director of Poltergeist, passed away at 74.

Richard Anderson, well-known to anyone who watched American TV in the 70s, most notably as Oscar Goldman on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, passed away on August 31 at the age of 91.

Harry Dean Stanton has passed away at 91.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/harry ... 202560703/

Hugh Hefner has passed away.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/hugh-he ... ge-91.html