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Actress Mala Powers Dies
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Actress Mala Powers (1931-2007) died of leukemia. One of her first roles was Roxane in 1950's Cyrano de Bergerac. Her few genre appearances include...

TV's "Mr. Wizard" dies
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Don Herbert (1917-2007), best known as television's "Mr. Wizard," died of bone cancer. His program aired for more...

Charles Nelson Reilly Dies
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Actor Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007) appeared in several genre tv series. He won a Tony Award...

Actress Gretchen Wyler Dies
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Actress Gretchen Wyler (1932-2007) appeared in genre television shows, and was a force in animal rights activism...

Actor Nicholas Worth Dies
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Character actor Nicholas Worth (1937-2007) appeared in two Star Trek series and many films, including Darkman,...

Author Lloyd Alexander Dies
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Author Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) wrote The Chronicles of Prydain, upon which Disney's The Black Cauldron was based. He won the Newbery Award in 1970 for...

Screenwriter Bernard Gordon Dies
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Screenwriter Bernard Gordon (1918-2007) wrote the screenplay for The Day of the Triffids. He also wrote pseudonymously while blacklisted in the 1950s, including...

Horror Director Curtis Harrington Dies
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Director Curtis Harrington (1928-2007) directed several horror films and tv episodes, including...

Actor Dabbs Greer dies
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Actor Dabbs Greeg (1917-2007) was the first person saved by Superman in the Adventures of Superman. He also appeared in more than 200 other films and television episodes, including...

Actor Gordon Scott Dies
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Actor Gordon Scott (1926-2007) was best-known for his six Tarzan films in the late 1950s...

Actor Tom Poston Dies
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Actor Tom Poston (1921-2007) appeared in Mork & Mindy and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and was also...

Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies
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Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra (1923-2007) was the only astronaut to fly all three of the first manned NASA programs...

Game designer Tom Moldvay
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Game designer Tom Moldvay, who played a big part in the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, died early this week. Perhaps his biggest contribution...

Biographer Emily W. Sunstein
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Biographer Emily W. Sunstein (1924-2007) wrote biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

Screenwriter Dave Martin Dies
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British screenwriter Dave Martin (1935-2007) was best known for his work on Doctor Who, for whom he created K9...

Author Michael Bishop's son among the dead at Virginia Tech
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Author Michael Bishop's son Jamie, a professor of German at Virginia Tech, was one of 33 people shot to death Monday by a student who then took his own life...

Film editor and actor James Lyons dies
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Film editor and actor James Lyons died of an AIDS-related illness. He appeared in 1991's Poison...

Actor Barry Nelson dies
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Actor Barry Nelson (1920-2007) was "the first actor to play James Bond." He also appeared in The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, The Shining, and...

Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies of cancer
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne (1925-2007) was known for his deep voice and dignified presence, which made him a natural for comedy. His genre appearances included...

Author Kurt Vonnegut dies of brain injury
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Author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) died of brain injuries suffered in a fall. He was the author of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and...

Author Ralph A. Sperry Dies
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Author Ralph A. Sperry (1944-2007) wrote Status Quotient: The Carrier in 1981. His entire body of work is now archived in...

Author Gerry Perkins Dies
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Author Gerry Perkins died 30 March 2007. He authored stories in Aboriginal, Sword and Sorceress, and...

Director Bob Clark killed in car crash
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Director Bob Clark (1941-2007) was killed by a drunk driver in Pacific Palisade, California. Best known for A Christmas Story, he also had many genre credits, including...

Comic-book artist Marshall Rogers dies
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Comic-book artist Marshall Rogers (1950-2007) redefined Batman and also worked on Superman, Spider-Man, and...

Cinematographer Freddie Francis Dies
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Cinematographer Freddie Francis (1917-2007) won two Oscars. He worked on The Day of the Triffids, Dune, and...
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