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6Jul

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Nick Cordero, actor

Nick Cordero ‑ the Tony award-nominated Broadway actor who starred in hit musicals including Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway ‑ has died in Los Angeles from severe medical complications after contracting coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died on July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after spending more than 90 days in the hospital, The Guardian quoted his wife Amanda Kloots as saying. “God has another angel in heaven now,” she posted on Instagram. “Nick was such a bright light. He was everyone’s friend, loved to listen, help and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband.” Cordero reportedly entered the emergency room on 30 March and had a succession of health setbacks including mini-strokes, blood c...

3Jun

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Chris Trousdale, singer & actor

Chris Trousdale ‑ an American singer and actor – passed away on June 2, 2020 due to coronavirus. He was a member of the boyband Dream Street, working with Jesse McCartney, Frankie Galasso, Greg Raposo, and Matt Ballinger. Trousdale began his Broadway career when he was eight years old, touring with the production of Les Misérables, where he starred alongside Ashley Tisdale and after a successful run, moved to New York City at the age of ten, to join the Broadway production of the play with Ricky Martin and Lea Michele of Glee. While in New York, he joined the well known children's group The Broadway Kids (past members include Christy Carlson Romano, Jenna Ushkowitz, and Lacey Chabert) and performed in popular plays such as Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz...

8May

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Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dan van Husen, actor

Dan van Husen ‑ a German actor – died at Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020 of Covid-19 at age 75. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of spaghetti westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. He died in 2020 of COVID-19. Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach. He was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 60s. He appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and bef...

8May

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France, Noteworthy

Daniel Cauchy, actor & film producer

Daniel Cauchy –a French film actor and producer known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film Bob le flambeur ‑ died from COVID-19 on 7 May 2020. "Yes, it is the COVID-19 has won," asserted Jean-Marie Périer to France Info in referring to the death of one who was a well-known face of French cinema. Father of comedian Didier Cauchy (The Crim’, Research Section), Daniel Cauchy was a regular supporting roles on the big screen in the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in 1930 in Boulogne-Billancourt, it is known in particular by turning in When you will read this letter Jean-Pierre Melville, The Portrait of his father André Berthomieu, Not touch the grisbi Jacques Becker, or Bob the big-time gambler Jean-Pierre Melville. To its cr...

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

23Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

Enrique Castellón Vargas aka El Príncipe Gitano ("The Gypsy Prince") a Spanish flamenco singer, actor and dancer – died on 22 April 2020, due to Covid-19 complications. He was the brother of rumba singer Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto". At the age of 14 he made his debut at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid in the same show as Lola Flores and very soon after he performed his first show, “Pinceladas”, becoming a great figure in Spanish song in the 1950s, despite the fact that his real passion was bullfighting, but he did not have success in that field. His most famous song is "Obí, obá". He also made a peculiar version of the Elvis Presley song "In the Ghetto".

20Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Philippe Nahon, actor

Philippe Nahon a French actor died from an illness made worse by COVID-19 on 19 April 2020. Nahon was best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible (cameo).

20Apr

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Jacques Rosny, actor

Jacques Rosny a French actor died on 18 April 2020 at the age of 81 in Nogent-sur-Marne due to COVID-19. Rosny married actress Annick Blancheteau in 1971, with whom he had two kids. In 1973, with Jean-Claude Houdinière and Loïc Vollard, Rosny purchased the Théâtre de l'Athénée. He left the theatre the following year.

16Apr

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Bruce Myers, actor and comedian

Bruce Myers ‑ was a British actor, comedian, and director ‑ died on April 15, 2020 due to COVID‑19. Bruce Myers was born on April 12, 1942 in Radcliffe, Manchester, England. He was an actor, known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Mahabharata (1989) and Relic Hunter (1999). He was married to Corinne Jaber and Ivanka Polchenco.

13Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Maurice Barrier, actor & singer

Maurice Barrier– was a French actor and singer – died on 12 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was 87. Barrier was the son of a cabinetmaker, and had his first job working in his father's workshop. While in Rennes at age 28, he met several resident actors at the Théâtre National de Bretagne and made his stage debut in Caligula, written by Albert Camus. His first major role on television was in the film The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. His other major films included The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Black and White in Color, Coup de tête, and Flic Story. He played alongside several actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, and G&eac...

Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

9Apr

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Noteworthy, United States

Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

Rick May ‑ a Canadian-American voice actor and theatrical performer, director, and teacher from Seattle, Washington – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. May provided the English-language voice for Peppy Hare in Star Fox 64 and Soldier in Team Fortress 2, among other video games. May was born on September 21, 1940. He was raised in Washington and Canada. May attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. May served in the U.S. military and was stationed in Japan, where he coordinated USO shows in Tokyo. May returned to the Seattle area to serve as the director of the Renton Civic Theatre and Civic Light Opera in Renton, Washington. In one production of the Cotton Patch Gospel in Renton, May played all 21 roles with a variety of ...