actor

Jul 6, 2012 4:00 AM CDT

Andy Griffith Cause of Death Revealed

Heart attack killed 86-year-old star

(Newser) - The death of Andy Griffith earlier this week was caused by a heart attack, according to a death certificate obtained by the AP . The 86-year-old actor suffered the attack 24 hours before his death, and he also suffered from illnesses including coronary artery disease and hypertension, the certificate states. Griffith,...

Highest-Paid
Actor Is ...
What's-His-Name

Jul 3, 2012 5:25 PM CDT

Highest-Paid Actor Is ... What's-His-Name

Tom Cruise again tops the Forbes list

(Newser) - Forbes is out with its annual list of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, and none other than Tom Cruise tops the list, by a mile. The birthday boy (he's 50 today) made $75 million between May 2011 and May 2012, in large part because of last year's...

Kevin Costner
Beats Baldwin
Lawsuit

Jun 15, 2012 1:27 AM CDT

Kevin Costner Beats Baldwin Lawsuit

Jury rejects $17M fraud claim over BP deal

(Newser) - It was aquaboy vs. Stephen Baldwin, and aquaboy won. A federal jury last evening tossed out a claim by Baldwin and a friend that Costner and a business partner duped them by keeping them in the dark about a multimillion-dollar deal between Costner's company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, and the...

Crew Locks
Michael Caine
in Attic Overnight

May 16, 2012 8:11 AM CDT

Crew Locks Michael Caine in Attic Overnight

He was napping as set closed down for the day

(Newser) - Maybe he should have blown the bloody doors off? Michael Caine spent an uncomfortable night locked in the attic of an empty theater in New Orleans during the filming of heist movie Now You See Me, a production source tells the Mirror . The 79-year-old actor went to a makeshift dressing...

Kirk Cameron:
Homosexuality
Is 'Destructive'

Mar 4, 2012 2:29 PM CST

Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality Is 'Destructive'

Piers Morgan grills former teen heartthrob on anti-gay-marriage views

(Newser) - Former sitcom star Kirk Cameron flexed his anti-gay-marriage muscle on Piers Morgan last night, the Huffington Post reports. The 1980s Growing Pains heartthrob called homosexuality "unnatural ... I think it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization." Now a "devoted follower of...

Judi Dench
Battles Loss
of Eyesight

Feb 18, 2012 1:37 PM CST

Judi Dench Battles Loss of Eyesight

British actor suffers from macular degeneration

(Newser) - Actor Judi Dench revealed in an interview with the Mirror that she can no longer see people's faces because her eyesight is deteriorating. But the 77-year-old is in treatment to stop her condition—macular degeneration—before it steals her sight altogether. "They had to do these injections and...

Actor Ben Gazzara Dead at 81

Feb 3, 2012 6:11 PM CST

Actor Ben Gazzara Dead at 81

He was a longtime presence on Broadway, TV, and the big screen

(Newser) - Actor Ben Gazzara died of pancreatic cancer today, reports the New York Times . The obituary recounts a long and varied career on stage (a starring role in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), television (Run for Your LIfe in the early '60s), and film (especially with director...

'Colonel Potter' Is Dead

OBITUARY

Dec 7, 2011 1:43 PM CST

'Colonel Potter' Is Dead

Actor Harry Morgan of 'MAS*H' fame gone at age 96

(Newser) - He co-starred in more than 100 movies, notes the New York Times , and even partnered with the iconic Sgt. Joe Friday on TV's Dragnet, but the world knows him best as Col. Potter on M*A*S*H: Actor Harry Morgan, 96, died this morning at home in Los Angeles of pneumonia....

Oscar-Winner
Cliff Robertson Dies

Obituary

Sep 11, 2011 6:51 AM CDT

Oscar-Winner Cliff Robertson Dies

Won Oscar for Charly , but never made top of Hollywood A-list

(Newser) - Cliff Robertson, the Oscar-winner for 1968's Charly who is best-known to today's generation as uncle Ben Parker in the Spider-Man movies, died yesterday at age 88, reports the LA Times . Described by Look magazine in 1963 as "one of the finest young actors in America today,"...

Actor Kal Penn
Leaving
White House
for TV Role

Jul 15, 2011 8:49 AM CDT

Actor Kal Penn Leaving White House for TV Role

His next gig will be on 'How I Met Your Mother'

(Newser) - Kal Penn is once again leaving behind his job as a bureaucrat to return to acting. Penn, whose big acting chops include Harold and Kumar and House, will leave his White House post in the Office of Public Engagement for a role on How I Met Your Mother, notes Perez...

Drunk Actor Breaks
Into Late Show Theater

Jul 11, 2011 5:00 AM CDT

Drunk Actor Breaks Into Late Show Theater

22-year-old smashes glass, crawls inside

(Newser) - A struggling actor stuck waiting tables managed to make an appearance at the Ed Sullivan Theater—and was arrested for his trouble. Police say James Whittemore, 22, kicked through a glass door at the home of the Late Show with David Letterman yesterday morning, after a night of drinking, and...

Andy Dick
Nabbed
for Public
Intoxication

May 3, 2011 2:39 PM CDT

Andy Dick Nabbed for Public Intoxication

Caused 'disturbance' at California restaurant

(Newser) - Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested once again, this time for suspected public drunkenness, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police in southern California responded to a complaint regarding an “intoxicated male subject who was causing a disturbance" at a restaurant. Dick cooperated with police, though “he was unable...

Verizon Drops 'Can You
Hear Me Now' Guy

Apr 15, 2011 10:55 AM CDT

Verizon Drops 'Can You Hear Me Now' Guy

Actor Paul Marcarelli breaks his silence

(Newser) - Verizon's iconic "Test Man" ad character is being dropped after nearly a decade—and after being silent for much of that time, actor Paul Marcarelli is finally talking. Marcarelli, who said "Can you hear me now?" in hundreds of ads, says the company let him know last...

Schwarzenegger
Ready for Action

Apr 10, 2011 7:20 AM CDT

Schwarzenegger Ready for Action

Nearly 8 years from his last hit, Arnold says he's still got it

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, and even at age 63, the longtime action star says he's ready to return to the high-octane heroics and disemboweling that made him famous. "I can step very comfortably into the entertainment world and do an action movie with the same violence that I've always...

Hitchcock Star
Farley Granger
Dead at 85

OBITUARY

Mar 30, 2011 2:58 AM CDT

Hitchcock Star Farley Granger Dead at 85

'50s screen idol loved the stage best

(Newser) - Soulful leading man Farley Granger, best known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Strangers On a Train and Rope, left the movie business twice: once to enlist in the Navy during World War II and a second time, at the height of his Hollywood success, to take acting lessons...

Actor's Face Slashed
During Hamlet

Mar 23, 2011 3:42 AM CDT

Actor's Face Slashed During Hamlet

Outrageous stroke of ill fortune halts Irish production

(Newser) - An Irish production of Hamlet was cut short in the second half when the star was slashed under the eye and collapsed during the play's famous sword-fighting scene. Director Alan Stanford took to the stage to tell the audience that the blood was real and the show couldn't go on....

CBS Fires
Charlie Sheen

BUT WHY?!

Mar 7, 2011 4:28 PM CST

CBS Fires Charlie Sheen

'Two and a Half Men' star gets pinks slip; show may or may not go on

(Newser) - CBS today finally handed Charlie Sheen that pink slip he's been begging for over the past few weeks, reports People. "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen's services on Two and a Half Men effective immediately," says a statement from the network. CBS says "...

Seinfeld's
Uncle Leo
Dead at 88

obituary

Feb 17, 2011 3:03 AM CST

Seinfeld's Uncle Leo Dead at 88

Veteran actor Len Lesser made more than 500 TV, film appearances

(Newser) - Veteran character actor Len Lesser, best known for playing Jerry's eccentric Uncle Leo on Seinfeld, has died of cancer-related pneumonia at the age of 88. Lesser's 60-year TV career included parts in the Monkees, Get Smart, and the Rockford Files. Lesser, a native New Yorker and World War II vet,...

Schwarzenegger:
I'm Going Back
to Acting

Feb 11, 2011 5:24 PM CST

Schwarzenegger: I'm Going Back to Acting

He gives Hollywood talent agency green light to solicit scripts

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently meant it when he said, "I'll be back:" The ex-Governator is picking up his old day job, acting, reports the AP. "Exciting news," he tweeted. "My friends at CAA have been asking me for seven years when they can take offers seriously....

Ozzie & Harriet's
David Nelson Dies

Jan 12, 2011 3:40 AM CST

Ozzie & Harriet's David Nelson Dies

Last member of sitcom family dead at 74

(Newser) - David Nelson, the last surviving family member from '50s sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, has died at the age of 74. The former child star, who directed movies including Peytyon Place, succumbed to colon cancer, AP reports. Nelson and his younger musician brother, Ricky, who died in a...