"were worried they were losing an entire generation. They hoped that by letting Springsteen in, they could improve their sentiment among East Germans. However, this strategy of ""one step backwards, two steps forwards"" backfired and the concert only made East Germans hungrier for more of the freedoms that Springsteen epitomized. While John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan delivered their famous speeches from the safety of West Berlin, Springsteen's speaking out against the Wall in the middle of East Berlin added to the euphoria. On 31 December 1989, American TV actor and pop music singer David Hasselhoff was the headlining performer"
"Los Angeles. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Cornel Wilde has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1635 Vine Street. Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s, he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his"
"and was replaced by Albert Finney. Trey Wilson Donald Yearnsley ""Trey"" Wilson III (January 21, 1948 – January 16, 1989) was an American character actor known for playing rural, authoritarian type characters, most notably in comedies such as ""Raising Arizona"" and ""Bull Durham"". During his career, Wilson appeared in numerous stage productions and 30 films or television shows, including guest roles on """" and ""The Equalizer"". On stage, he appeared in ""The Front Page"" at Lincoln Center and on Broadway, he appeared with Sandy Duncan in ""Peter Pan"". He also appeared in Pat Benatar's music video ""Love Is a Battlefield"","
"a second investigation. CW president Mark Pedowitz stated that Knepper's exit from the series was already planned before the accusers came forward. Knepper personally announced his promotion in a video released at Comic Con; but did not partake in promotional interviews for his role following the allegations, nor did he attend the Season Four wrap party. On February 28, 2018, Bertram's lawyers announced she was filing a defamation lawsuit against Knepper in the wake of his denials. She is seeking damages in a jury trial. Robert Knepper Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known"
"was no longer in demand in the years following World War II. He became increasingly depressed in the mid-1940s, as he was unable to secure work in Hollywood, and committed suicide by gunshot in 1947. Herman Bing Herman Bing (March 30, 1889 – January 9, 1947) was a German-American character actor. He acted in more than 120 films and many of his parts were uncredited. Herman Bing was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. He was son of the opera singer Max Bing (1865-1919) and Frieda Seckback (1869-1939), and brother of actor Gustav Bing (1893-1967), Clara Bing (1895-1976), Rudolf Bing (1902-1997) and"
"of which were destroyed in a 1978 fire at his Malibu home. He and his wife, Rae, had three daughters. Brand died from emphysema at Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, California, on April 16, 1992 at age 71. After a private funeral service he was cremated, and his remains were interred in a niche of the Morning Glory Room at East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento. Neville Brand Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American actor. His most memorable film roles were in ""Stalag 17"" (1953), ""Riot in Cell Block 11"" (1954), and ""Birdman"
"disease he feared but never knew he had."" Most of Lahr's scenes had already been shot. Norman Lear told the New York Times that ""through judicious editing we will be able to shoot the rest of the film so that his wonderful performance will remain intact."" The producers used test footage of Lahr, plus an uncredited voice double and a body double, burlesque actor Joey Faye, to complete Lahr's role. Bert Lahr Irving Lahrheim (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) stage name Bert Lahr, was an American actor of stage and screen, vaudevillian and comedian. Lahr is best known"
"Blvd. In 2005, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who ""for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television"", especially in such classic films as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Pollyanna"""
"appear overly menacing. Rudolph Anders Rudolph Anders (December 17, 1895 in Waldkirch, Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany – March 27, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, US) was a German character actor who came to the United States after the rise of Hitler, and appeared in numerous American films in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. During the 1940s, he used the stage name of Robert O. Davis. His German-accented English confined him largely to ""accent roles"", and during World War II to villain parts, although not leading roles as his small build, wide eyes, soft voice and naturally quiet demeanor did not"
"Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s, he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's ""A Song to Remember"". In the 1950s, he moved to writing, producing and directing films, and still continued his career as an"
"Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who ""for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television"", especially in such classic films as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Pollyanna"" (1960), and ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961). Malden also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as ""Baby Doll"" (1956), ""The Hanging Tree"" (1959), ""How the West Was"
"400 pieces of art to the museum, including works by Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. As screenwriter: As associate producer: Michael Blankfort Michael Seymour Blankfort (December 10, 1907 – July 13, 1982) was an American screenwriter, author and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of ""Broken Arrow (1950)"". He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles. The Writers Guild of America, West, in its 1991 restoration of credit for the ""Broken Arrow"" screenplay to Maltz, expressed ""a strong statement of appreciation for the"
"to stomach cancer. He would be replaced in ""The Front Page""'s cast by Adolphe Menjou. Wolheim is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA. Louis Wolheim Louis Robert Wolheim (March 28, 1880 – February 18, 1931) was an American actor, of both stage and screen, whose rough physical appearance relegated him to roles mostly of thugs or villains in the movies, but whose talent allowed him to flourish on stage. His career was mostly contained during the silent era of the film industry, due to his untimely death at the age of 50 in 1931. Born in New York"
"on golden showers and coprophilia. Gillis died on February 19, 2010 in New York City from melanoma, which was diagnosed four or five months earlier. In an audio interview given to ""The Rialto Report"" shortly before his death, Gillis stated that in the 1970s he'd wanted his ashes to be scattered in Times Square, but years later he changed his mind, stating that a ""cleaned up"" Times Square would contaminate his ashes. Jamie Gillis Jamie Gillis (April 20, 1943 – February 19, 2010) was an American pornographic actor, director and member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Gillis was born"
"at the age of 80, according to his manager John A. Anderson. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a German-American stage, film, and television actor and singer/musician. Born in Cologne, Rhine Province, Germany, Klemperer and his family fled Germany in 1935. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began his professional acting career on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer appeared in several films and numerous guest starring roles during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, he won the"
"cartoonists. In particular, several Warner Bros. cartoons used a caricature of Lorre's face with an impression by Mel Blanc, including ""Hollywood Steps Out"", ""Birth of a Notion"", ""Hair-Raising Hare"" and ""Racketeer Rabbit"" among others. Actor Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted in 1963 to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to ""Peter Lorie"", but his petition was rejected by the courts. After Lorre's death, however, he referred to himself as Lorre's son. Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor. He"
"""Single Beds and Double Standards"", Reid's story is recalled by those silent film survivors who worked with him: Gloria Swanson, Karl Brown, Henry Hathaway, and stuntman Bob Rose. In 2007, a biography ""Wallace Reid: Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol"" by author E. J. Fleming appeared, the first since his mother's personal recollections after Reid's death. In 2018, a biography of Reid was the subject of Karina Longworth's Podcast ""You Must Remember This"". Wallace Reid William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film referred to as ""the screen's most"
"extensive 35mm production materials relating to the 1971 anti-war film ""Johnny Got His Gun"". Dalton Trumbo James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including ""Roman Holiday"", ""Exodus"", ""Spartacus"", and ""Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"". One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He, along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other industry professionals, was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. His"
"much time together outdoors, including fishing and hunting, a common hobby of Williams. West died in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2017, following a brief battle with leukemia. After his death, West's former ""Batman"" co-star and longtime friend, Burt Ward, released a statement; ""This is a terribly unexpected loss of my lifelong friend, I will forever miss him. There are several fine actors who have portrayed Batman in films. In my eyes, there was only one real Batman that is and always will be Adam West. He was truly the Bright Knight."" """" actor Kevin Conroy (who performed alongside"
"Burt Ward Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr. , July 6, 1945) is an American actor and activist best known for his portrayal of Robin, the sidekick of Batman (played by Adam West), in the television series ""Batman"" (1966–1968), its theatrical feature film, the 1977 Saturday Morning animated series ""The New Adventures of Batman"", ""Legends of the Superheroes"" (1979), and two animated feature films, """" (2016) and ""Batman vs. Two-Face"" (2017). Ward was born Bert John Gervis Jr., on July 6, 1945, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Bert Sr., was the owner of a traveling ice show called"
"Victor Kilian Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Victor Kilian began his career in entertainment at the age of eighteen by joining a vaudeville company. In the mid-1920s he began to perform in Broadway plays and by the end of the decade had made his debut in motion pictures. For the next two decades he made a good living as a character actor in secondary or minor roles in films such as ""The Adventures"
"Lee Wallace (actor) Lee Wallace (born July 15, 1930) is an American actor of film, stage, and television. Wallace was born as Leo Melis in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Celia (née Gross) and Eddie Melis. His movie roles include more than a dozen productions big and small, including ""Klute"" (1971), ""The Hot Rock"" (1972), ""The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"" (1974) as the Mayor of New York City, ""The Happy Hooker"" (1975), ""Diary of the Dead"" (1976), ""Thieves"" (1977), ""Private Benjamin"" (1980) as Mr. Waxman, ""World War III"" (1982), ""Daniel"" (1983), ""Batman"" (1989) as Gotham City's Mayor"
"nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 1940's ""The Grapes of Wrath"" and won for his part in 1981's ""On Golden Pond"". Fonda made his mark in Westerns (which included his most villainous role as Frank in ""Once Upon a Time in the West"") and war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career. Henry Fonda Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning five decades. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor."
"it. Now the stage is empty and the lights are low. Roscoe Lee Browne Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director known for his rich voice and dignified bearing. He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series ""That Was the Week That Was"", and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film. In 1976, Browne was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a"
"clinic The Meadows, in Arizona, to undergo treatment for sex addiction. Netflix broke commercial ties with the actor and his participation in the film ""All the Money in the World"" was eliminated; actor Christopher Plummer had to re-shoot the scenes of Spacey's character. ""House of Cards"" later announced that its following sixth season would be the series' last, and that it would be filmed without Spacey. The accusations to Harvey Weinstein unleashed a campaign through the hashtag Me Too with which different people joined the list of victims of sexual abuse by actors, directors and producers. The comedian Louis C.K."
"3, 2012, aged 70, from cancer. Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Zalman King Lefkowitz dropped his last name at the beginning of his acting career. In 1964, he played a gang member in ""Memo from Purgatory"", an episode of the television series ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig. Between 1965 and 1967 King appeared in 5 episodes of"
"the filming of ""West of the Pecos"" and had two daughters, Jodi and Juanita, and a son, actor William Katt. Bill Williams died of a brain tumor at age 77 in 1992 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). For his contributions to television, Bill Williams has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is at 6161 Hollywood Blvd. Bill Williams (actor) William Herman Katt (born Herman August Wilhelm Katt; May 15, 1915 – September 21, 1992), known as Bill Williams, was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring"
"was rejected by Chris Columbus due to the ""British-only edict"". Won: Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born in Chicago, Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame playing the alien Mork in the sitcom ""Mork & Mindy"", Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisation skills and the wide variety of memorable character voices he created. Williams has"
"Rudolph Anders Rudolph Anders (December 17, 1895 in Waldkirch, Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany – March 27, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, US) was a German character actor who came to the United States after the rise of Hitler, and appeared in numerous American films in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. During the 1940s, he used the stage name of Robert O. Davis. His German-accented English confined him largely to ""accent roles"", and during World War II to villain parts, although not leading roles as his small build, wide eyes, soft voice and naturally quiet demeanor did not allow him to"
"and a short film with Wayne's narration were aired at many television stations at sign-off time before stations began broadcasting 24 hours a day in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wayne is often mistakenly credited with composing the piece. Mitchum died on November 29, 2001, after complications of three strokes. He was 82. His death was announced by the ""Los Angeles Times"" on Sunday, December 4, 2001. John Mitchum John Mitchum (September 6, 1919 – November 29, 2001) was an American actor from the 1940s to the 1970s in film and television. Early in his career, he was credited"
"66 on June 18, 2004. George Buck Flower George Buck Flower (October 28, 1937 – June 18, 2004) was an American actor, writer, producer, assistant director, production manager, and casting director. He was sometimes credited as Ernest Wall, Buck Flower, George ""Buck"" Flower, George Flower, Buck Flowers, C. D. LaFleur, C.D. LaFleure, C.D. Lafleuer, and C.D. Lafleur. Because of his gruff appearance, he was often cast as a drunk or homeless character. Director John Carpenter gave Flower a cameo role in almost every film he made throughout the 1980s. Flower was also the father of actress/costume designer Verkina Flower. He"
"Strother Martin Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Martin perhaps is best known as the prison ""captain"" in the 1967 film ""Cool Hand Luke"", in which he uttered the line, ""What we've got here is failure to communicate."" The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. Martin was born in Kokomo in Howard County in north central Indiana to"
"coroner, who found very high alcohol levels in his body, suggesting and later confirming alcohol poisoning as the cause. His death was later ruled a suicide. Verne Troyer Verne Jay Troyer (January 1, 1969 – April 21, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer best known for playing Mini-Me in the ""Austin Powers"" film series. He was notable for having been only tall, the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia; this made him one of the shortest men in the world. Troyer was born in Sturgis, Michigan, the son of Susan, a factory worker, and Reuben Troyer, a repair technician."