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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — A relative says Beverly Roberts, who co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1936 film "Two Around the World," has died. She was 96.
Her second-cousin Christina Baker says Roberts died Monday at her home in Laguna Niguel of natural causes.
A Warner Bros. contract player from 1935, Roberts made her first film with Al Jolson in "The Singing Kid."
She also appeared with Bogart and Pat O'Brien in "China Clipper" and with Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell in "Perfect Specimen."
After leaving Warner Bros. in 1940, she toured the country as a singer with the Dorsey Brothers band.
In 1950, she became administrator of Theater Authority, a post she held for 25 years.
In her later years, she worked in watercolor painting.
She never married and had no children.
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NEW YORK – Irish author Frank McCourt has died in New York City at age 78. He was best known for the million-selling "Angela's Ashes," a memoir about his childhood. The memoir was published in 1996 and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Brother Malachy (MAL'-uh-kee) McCourt says Frank McCourt died Sunday afternoon at a Manhattan hospice.
Frank McCourt had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Tatsuo Yamada, a veteran television and film actor, died of cancer on Sunday morning at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 53 years old.
According to his management, Yamada's stomach cancer was first discovered in 2005, and he underwent surgery in June of that year. At the end of last year, his doctor found that the cancer had spread to his kidneys and other areas, resulting in repeated hospitalization.
Yamada debuted as an actor in Sogo Ishii's 1980 film "Kuruizaki Thunder Road" ("Crazy Thunder Road"). Over the years, he appeared in more than a hundred movies and television dramas. He had a supporting role in the award-winning "Okuribito" last year, directed by Yojiro Takita, his former classmate. His last performance was in Setsuro Wakamatsu's "Shizumanu Taiyo," which opens on October 24.
You may not have heard of Yoshinori Kanada, but chances are you've enjoyed his artistry at some point in your life. Kanada was a key animator for some of the most beloved animated features of all time, including the original Gundam series, Akira, Metropolis, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke among countless others. The influential artist passed away on July 22 from a heart attack.
After his time with Studio Ghibli, Kanada joined Square Enix working as a layout artist for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an animation director for Final Fantasy XI, and a story-board artist for Final Fantasy IV on the DS.
Kind of makes you appreciate all the artists that make the games, movies, and TV shows we love, possible. Thank you for making my life far more interesting than it could have been on its own.
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