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Charles Fuller, the groundbreaking playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his enduring drama A Soldier’s Play, died Monday of natural causes in Toronto. He was 83. His death was announced to the Associated Press by his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller. “It has been my greatest honour to…

Refresh for updates… Superstar Dolly Parton and Crystal Gayle, the sister of Loretta Lynn who launched her own country music career with the hit 1977 song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” are among those paying tribute to Lynn today. “So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loretta,” Parton wrote…

Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who groundbreaking songs dealt candidly with poverty, women’s struggles and, in the great song "Coal Miner's Daughter" her own life, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. She was 90. Her death was announced by her family. In a statement, Lynn's…

Joan Hotchkis, a veteran actor, writer, screenwriter and playwright, known for The Odd Couple and Legacy, died on September 27 in Los Angeles. She was 95. Her daughter Paula Chambers said Hotchkis death was due to congestive heart failure. RELATED: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo…

Carl Samrock, a former VP National Publicity for Warner Bros Pictures and home video executive who also was a photojournalist for The New York Times, died October 1 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. His wife of 44 years, Carol Andelman Samrock, confirmed the news. Samrock joined Warners in 1982…

Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American actress who took the Oscars stage in 1973 to decline Marlon Brando’s award for The Godfather, died Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said. She was 75. “Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined…

Hollywood powerbrokers past and present officially said goodbye to one of their own Sunday. Bert Fields, who died August 8 at the age of 93, was celebrated today by clients, family and colleagues at a memorial service in Santa Monica. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Estrich and Michael Ovitz…

Madame Sylvia Wu, whose Chinese restaurant in Santa Monica served generations of Southern Californians and many celebrities, died Sept. 29, her family confirmed. She was 106. In her later years, Wu stayed in the West side’s mind with cookbooks, television shows, and charity work, particularly at the…

Antonio Inoki, whose most famous moment on the world stage was an unorthodox exhibition match against boxing champion Muhammad Ali that aimed to settle which sport could beat the other, died Friday in Japan. He was 79 and no cause of death was released. Inoki was considered a combat sports…

Coolio, the Compton-raised rapper with the trademark braids who won a Grammy in 1996 for his No. 1 smash “Gangsta’s Paradise” from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer-starring film Dangerous Minds, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, his manager Jarez Posey told Deadline. He was 59. No cause of death has been…

UPDATED with more details: Robert Cormier, a TV and film actor whose credits include playing Finn Cotter on the long-running Canadian series Heartland as well as the Netflix horror series Slasher: Solstice died September 23. He was 33. His family said Cormier died in “a tragic accident” in Toronto. They did not…

Jim Post, who with then-wife Cathy under the band name Friend & Lover scored a Top 10 hit in 1968 with the enduring hippie anthem “Reach Out of the Darkness,” died of congestive heart failure Sept. 14 in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 82. His death was announced to The New York Times by former wife and children’s book author…