‘Cabaret’ actor Fritz Wepper dead at 82

Ron Thompson, a veteran character actor best known for his role in Ralph Bakshi’s rotoscope film American Pop and his 1970s TV series portrayal of Detective Nopke in Baretta, died Saturday at age 83 in Los Angeles. No cause was given by Professor Rel Dowdell of Hampton University, who confirmed the death.

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Billy Dee Williams is defending actors who want to wear blackface in their performances.

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The search for Cole Brings Plenty has come to a sad end.

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Cole Brings Plenty has died at the age of 27.

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Joe Flaherty has sadly passed away at the age of 82.

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Fritz Wepper, a German actor with a prolific TV career in his native country but known to American audiences for his funny and heartfelt performance as a German Jew is Bob Fosse’s hit 1972 Oscar-winning musical film Cabaret, died Monday at a hospice facility in Munich. He was 82.

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Brian Cox has dismissed suggestions that West End theatres are increasingly being dominated by celebrities instead of thespians.

The cast for the fifth season of You is starting to come together.

M. Emmet Walsh has sadly passed away.

told USA Today in 2015. “I want to be a garbage collector in one film and a governor in the next.“I got a degree in business administration and marketing,” he said of attending Clarkson University in New York.

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