Merrill Jonas, TV Commercial Casting Director, Dies at 96

Jessica Walter has died aged 80. The Emmy Award-winning actress – who was best known for her roles in ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer’ – passed away in her sleep at her New York home, her daughter Brooke Bowman has confirmed.

Jessica Walter, the sassy actress who excelled at portraying unhinged types, from the obsessed fan of a radio deejay in Clint Eastwood'sPlay Misty for Meto nutty matriarchs onArrested DevelopmentandArcher, has died. She was 80.

Jessica Walter, the Emmy Award-winning actress known for playing Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development, has died at her home in New York. The American actress died in her sleep on Wednesday, aged 80, a representative confirmed on Thursday.

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Carmel Dagan Staff WriterJessica Walter, an Emmy-winning actress known for her work as the stalker in Clint Eastwood’s “Play Misty for Me,” and for the TV series “Arrested Development” and “Archer,” died Wednesday in New York.

Beloved actress Jessica Walter, known for her work in Arrested Development and Archer, has died at the age of 80.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and in ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, died on Tuesday (23 March) in Santa Rosa, California. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” his wife Sonia Segal said in a statement.

WARSAW, Poland -- Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland’s greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died in Krakow.

NEW YORK -- Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films including the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and “Alien," has died. He was 81.Kotto’s wife, Tessie Sinahon, announced his death Monday in a Facebook post.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorFor a certain generation of women, director Susan Seidelman’s second feature, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” is a formative text, an indelible record of New York in the ‘80s, from Madonna’s iconic hair bow to Rosanna Arquette’s spirited performance as the lead.

Ronald DeFeo Jr., the Long Island man serving a life sentence for slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a 1974 crime that would inspire The Amityville Horror book and movie franchise, died March 12 at the Albany Medical Center in New York. He was 69.

Ronald DeFeo Jr. has died.

Yaphet Kotto, the American actor known for being the first major Black James Bond villain, has died at the age of 81.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday.Ronald DeFeo, 69, died Friday at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb.

has donned yet another hat! After being a successful actress, producer, author and entrepreneur, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is now a restaurateur. The actress took to social media to announce that she is now the proud co-owner of an Indian restaurant in New York.

“Fresh Off the Boat” was adapted into a network sitcom that he narrated, has also worked as a corporate lawyer, a chef and restaurateur, a clothing designer and a TV host.Now, with his new film “Boogie,” in theaters March 5, Huang is adding director to that list — and it just might be his favorite gig yet. “You get to play with people,” said Huang, who grew up in Orlando and now divides his time between New York, Los Angeles and Taiwan.

Chris Willman Music WriterDoug Smiley, the marketing director for Verve Music Group, died Saturday, February 27. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer less than a month before dying at home in Maplewood, NJ, surrounded by family.

Bill C. Davis, whose 1981 Broadway hit play Mass Appeal was adapted for a 1984 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Željko Ivanek, died Feb. 26 following a brief illness, his family has announced. He was 69.