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Emmy award-winning news anchor Denise D'Ascenzo died Saturday at her Connecticut home. She was 61 and no cause of death was disclosed by the TV outlet, which announced her passing. D'Ascenzo joined television outlet WFSB-TV in 1986 and "through the years has been a steady and reassuring presence on the anchor desk,"…

Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993’s Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died from complications of pneumonia. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy as Lead Actor In A Drama Series for his role as Martin ‘Kaz…

Robert Walker Jr., best known for a classic early Star Trek episode and as the son of Hollywood stars Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, died Thursday in Malibu, according to family members. He was 79. The New York native portrayed the twitchy, callow title character in “Charlie X,” the second episode of Star Trek’s…

Veteran actress and Will & Grace breakout star and fan-favorite Shelley Morrison died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 83. Morrison’s publicist Lori DeWaal told the Associated Press that Morrison died from heart failure after a brief illness. The actress’s career spans 50 years but is best…

Stage director Marion McClinton, who staged for Broadway two of August Wilson’s plays and Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow, died yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 65. The New York Times reports that McClinton died of kidney failure. With credits in both Off Broadway and regional theater, McClinton directed the Broadway…

John Simon, whose biting, sometimes personal New York Magazine theater reviews drew devoted readers and withering criticism of their own, died yesterday at a hospital in Valhalla, New York. He was 94. Simon’s death was announced on the Facebook page of his wife, Patricia Hoag Simon. “My husband John Simon died last…

Restaurant and nightclub entrepreneur Harry Morton, who owned the Pink Taco eateries and the famed Viper Room nightclub, has died at age 38. He was found unresponsive by his younger brother, Matthew, in his Beverly Hills home Saturday afternoon. No cause of death has been determined. An autopsy will be performed to…

Michael J. Pollard, whose long list of acting credits stretches back to the late 1950s but likely will is best remembered for his Oscar-nominated, star-making turn as the dimwitted but lovable sidekick C.W. Moss in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, has died. He was 80. His death was announced on Facebook today by filmmaker Rob…

Jane Galloway Heitz, a veteran actress in film and television, has died. She was 78 and the cause of death was not disclosed. Heitz had a variety of roles during her career. Many cited her work as the character Lillian Adler in the Fox musical dramedy Glee, though she only appeared twice — in the pilot and as an image…

MGM Studios executive Tomas Davison died Saturday in Miami, just over a year after taking the position of Senior Vice President, International Television Distribution Latin America and U.S. Hispanic. He was 43. A cause of death is pending. Davison “made a great impact during his short time at the studio,” MGM said in…

Lawrence G. Paull, a production designer and art director whose work on the science fiction classic Blade Runner earned him an Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA Award, died Sunday in La Jolla, Calif. He was 81. No cause of death was given. Paull had a long history in Hollywood, designing for such films as Robert…

Niall Tóibín, whose long career as an actor and comedian saw him in roles ranging from Tom Cruise’s father to a moonshine maker in the controversial film Poitin, has died. He succumbed at age 89 in Dublin earlier today after battling an undisclosed long illness. Tóibín kept working until last year, appearing in the…