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Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has died

...play.Falk made his film debut in 1958 with "Wind Across the Everglades" and established himself as a talented character actor with his performance as the vicious killer Abe Reles in "Murder, Inc."Among his other movies: "It's a Mad...

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It's long, but 'The Green Mile' succeeds wildly

...compound of dangerous men, alternates between tough and vulnerable. Even better is David Morse as Brutal. Veteran character actor Dabbs Greer, 82, does a nice job as the aged Paul Edgecomb. Duncan steals the show as John Coffey. Trailers suggest...

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Matthau made two movies in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Character actor Walter Matthau is being remembered fondly in Minnesota, where he made the movies ''Grumpy Old Men'' and ''Grumpier Old Men...

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Character actor David Dukes dies Los Angeles Times

David Dukes -- a prolific character actor who moved easily and often among stage, film and television -- died suddenly during his day off from filming ABC's latest Stephen...

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Actors charged in LA porn investigation

...filing of criminal charges against two Hollywood actors: Paul Reubens, best known as Pee-wee Herman, and veteran character actor Jeffrey Jones of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Reubens was charged with one misdemeanor count of possessing materials...

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Catch 'Drive' before it takes off

...into a people piece. He's got the cast for it: charisma-dripping Nathan Fillion from "Firefly," top-notch character actors Dylan Baker and Taryn Manning, and plenty of hot newcomers - Emma Stone, in particular, looks like a future star...

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'Whole Nine Yards' has many reasons to fail, but it doesn't

...other's work. Henstridge is fun as a neo-noir gang moll with a heart of gold, and Pollak, one of today's finest character actors, is ideal as the mob kingpin. He's clearly having a great time with a whole palette of lip curls, arched eyebrows...

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Werner Klemperer, Col. Klink on 'Hogan's Heroes,' dies of cancer at age 80

Werner Klemperer, the character actor whose greatest success came in the role of Col. Klink, the German prison camp commandant of TV's "Hogan's Heroes," died...

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Names and faces

...out of the car. Barbara Eden's son dies LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The bodybuilder son of actress Barbara Eden and character actor Michael Ansara was found dead in his pickup truck in a suburban gas station, authorities said. But the cause of...

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Capsule reviews of current movie releases

...first two films can guess the outcome of this one. Anonymous characters are the first to go, then the colorful character actors, then one of the leads will appear to die and we will later learn he survived. Paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam...

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