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H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who became a seemingly perennial third-party presidential candidate of the 1990s, died this morning after a five-month struggle with leukemia. He was 89. "In business and in life, Ross was a man of integrity and action,” said James Fuller, a representative for the Perot family, in…

Robert E. Bradford, a film and television producer, and the husband of novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, died July 2 in New York's Weill Cornell Hospital after suffering a stroke at the couple’s Manhattan home the week prior. A spokesperson for the family confirmed his death. Bradford was 92. The couple celebrated…

Billy Drago, a character actor whose best-known roles were as Hollywood villains, has died. He passed on Monday, June 24 in Los Angeles, according to his publicity firm. No cause of death was given. Born William Eugene Burrows Jr., Drago appeared in more than 100 film and television roles. His most well-known roles…

William F. Brown, whose libretto for Broadway’s The Wiz earned him a Tony Award nomination, died yesterday in Westport, CT, according to his wife and collaborator Tina Tippit. Brown was 91. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 16, 1928, Brown attended Princeton University, wrote for Look Magazine, served a year in…

Leah Chase, who taught the nation about Creole food at her Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans and was a celebrity chef who appeared in numerous TV shows and  film documentaries, has died. She passed Saturday at her son’s home near her New Orleans restaurant. Chase and her husband, Edgar “Dooky’ Chase, had the…

UPDATE, with additional details Leon Redbone, the trombone-voiced singer-songwriter whose eccentric, nostalgic Americana style of music found at least a temporarily frequent home on early episodes of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, died today. He was 69. His death was confirmed by his family in a whimsically worded…

Kahli Small, who worked on the films Bohemian Rhapsody and Milk, died on Sunday. She was 53. She began her career with Focus Features, joining in 2003 as a production executive who contributed to the creation of the films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Milk and Eastern Promises, among 20 films. She spent her…

Evelyn "Brandy" Foster, who managed the childhood career of daughter Jodie Foster, died May 13  in her Los Angeles home from complications related to dementia. She was 90 years old. Her death was confirmed by Jennifer Allen, publicist for Jodie Foster. Born Evelyn Almond and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Foster had…

Doris Day, whose career spanned radio, film, TV and, perhaps most famously, the beloved sweetly innocent “sex comedies” of the 1960s, most notably with co-star and friend Rock Hudson, died today. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by The Doris Day Animal Foundation. Day’s Foundation attributed the death to pneumonia…

Pua Magasiva, who played the Red Ranger on "Power Rangers Ninja Storm," was found dead Saturday in New Zealand. Police arriving at a Wellington, New Zealand residence early on Saturday founder Magasive unresponsive, according to a <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12229976"…

Dave Bova, whose hair, wig and makeup designs for productions including Be More Chill and 2017’s Sunset Boulevard and M. Butterfly brought a distinctive visual panache to Broadway over the last five years, died yesterday in New York. He was 41. Details of his death have not been disclosed, but colleagues, friends and…

Broadway producer Terry Allen Kramer, whose credits include Kinky Boots, the 2017 Bette Midler Tony-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, died May 2 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan. She was 85 and had been struggling with pneumonia since last month. Her death…