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Reg Grundy, the man behind the likes of Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H, has died.

The man who helped bring the world shows such as The Young Doctors, Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H has died.

Reg Grundy was 92, and passed away at the end of last week at his Bermuda home. His career took him from radio presenting through to his television work. He also got involved with films, and produced Abba: The Movie back in 1977.

But it’s his Australian soaps, that he made under the banner of the Reg Grundy Organisation, for which he will remain the best known. He is survived by his wife and daughter.

Rest in peace, Mr Grundy.

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Dick Clark died on Wednesday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. While Clark will always be known for his television contributions on "American Bandstand," "Pyramid" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the showbiz veteran also dabbled in some dramatic acting.

In 1960's "Because They're Young," Clark played a young high school teacher (with a tragic past) trying to improve the lives of his students in a small town. It marked Clark's first dramatic role, but not his first onscreen appearance: that came in the 1957 film "Jamboree," where Clark played himself.

"Because They're Young" also starred Tuesday Weld and and featured a cameo appearance from musician Duane Eddy, who wrote the film's theme song. It became the biggest hit of Eddy's career.

Clark, meanwhile, would continue to dabble in acting. In 1961 he appeared in "The Young Doctors," opposite Fredric March and Ben Gazzara. His most outrageous role came seven years later in "Killers Three.

The man described as the ageless teenager is no more. Dick Clark has passed away at age 82 after suffering a massive heart attack. Clark had been in poor health for years, suffering from the aftermath of a stroke as well as diabetes. Clark helped turn rock 'n roll from a fad into a global phenomenon, primarily by showcasing recording stars on his hit series American Bandstand. Over the decades, he became an icon of the international entertainment industry, though most of his achievements were done in the boardroom, not in front of TV cameras. He created and produced hit game shows and even pioneered the concept of turning New Years Eve entertainment into an event that appealed to young people worldwide. Prior to Clark, the New Years Eve programming consisted of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadian orchestra performing at the Waldorf Astoria. Despite turning the hosting of the annual...

Dick Clark died on Wednesday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. While Clark will always be known for his television contributions on "American Bandstand," "Pyramid" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the showbiz veteran also dabbled in some dramatic acting.

In 1960's "Because They're Young," Clark played a young high school teacher (with a tragic past) trying to improve the lives of his students in a small town. It marked Clark's first dramatic role, but not his first onscreen appearance: that came in the 1957 film "Jamboree," where Clark played himself.

"Because They're Young" also starred Tuesday Weld and and featured a cameo appearance from musician Duane Eddy, who wrote the film's theme song. It became the biggest hit of Eddy's career.

Clark, meanwhile, would continue to dabble in acting. In 1961 he appeared in "The Young Doctors," opposite Fredric March and Ben Gazzara. His most outrageous role came seven years later in "Killers Three.

Prolific actor who built a 60-year career in the Us and Europe

Few screen debuts have equalled the searing malevolence of Ben Gazzara's Iago-inspired Jocko De Paris in The Strange One (1957). The role, which he had created on stage, became forever associated with this intense graduate of New York's method school of acting.

Gazzara, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, continued his stage career in modern classics including Epitaph for George Dillon and as the humiliated and vengeful George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). He also achieved popular acclaim through television series – notably Run for Your Life (1965-68) – and in movies for his friend John Cassavetes and other directors including Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, David Mamet, Todd Solondz and the Coen brothers.

Gazzara was born to Sicilian immigrants and grew up on Manhattan's lower east side. He began acting at the Madison Square Boys Club and...

New York — Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway and the film "The Big Lebowski," has died at age 81.

Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel, where celebrities such as Peter Falk and Martin Sheen stayed, said he died after being placed in hospice care for cancer. She and her husband helped marry Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel.

Gazzara was a proponent of method acting, in which the performer attempts to take on the thoughts and emotions of the character he's playing, and it helped him achieve stardom early in his career with two stirring Broadway performances.

In 1955, he originated the role of Brick Pollitt,...

New York — Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway and the film "The Big Lebowski," has died at age 81.

Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel, where celebrities such as Peter Falk and Martin Sheen stayed, said he died after being placed in hospice care for cancer. She and her husband helped marry Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel.

Gazzara was a proponent of method acting, in which the performer attempts to take on the thoughts and emotions of the character he's playing, and it helped him achieve stardom early in his career with two stirring Broadway performances.

In 1955, he originated the role of Brick Pollitt,...

Ben Gazzara, who made a career of playing virile roles on stage, screen, TV and in real life, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer told The New York Times. Accomplished as an actor, dapper and irresistible to women, Gazzara came by his many streetwise roles naturally. Born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the child of an Italian immigrant carpenter and roofer got the acting bug starting at age 12, at the Madison Square Boys' Club. "My voice was this deep even then," he told People in 1976. The urge to perform "screwed up my schooling,...

Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow, Fredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind Turner Classic Movies' Fredric March tribute ends tonight with the presentation of six movies: Inherit the Wind (1960), There Goes My Heart (1938), Seven Days in May (1964), The Young Doctors (1961), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), and Anthony Adverse (1936). Of those, I've seen three: Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind, a fictionalized account of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial — creationism vs. evolution — is one of Kramer's Movies with a Message. Unlike the tame Guess Who's Coming to Dinner or the dull The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind actually delivers its message in a dramatically persuasive manner. Helping things out are Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy in one of his rare unselfconsciously low-key performances as Clarence Darrow ("Henry Drummond" in the film) and a heavily madeup Fredric March in a [...]...