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British director Tony Scott has died after jumping off Los Angeles County bridge
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Tony Scott has fallen to his death from a Los Angeles bridge, according to some sources Scott, who was 68, was seen parking his car on the Vincent Thomas Bridge and jumping into the water below at about 12:30 p.m. local time, and his body was recovered by law enforcement from the harbour shortly before 3 p.m., said Lieutenant Joe Bale, a watch commander for the coroner’s office. He had directed big hit action movies like “Top Gun”, “Crimson Tide”, “Days of Thunder” and “Beverly Hills Cop II” and more successful movies.
Mel Stuart, an award-winning documentarian died
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Mel Stuart died Thursday night of cancer at his home in Los Angeles. Stuart was born in New York City in 1928 (he was 83) and his documentaries include “The Making of the President 1960,” for which he won an Emmy, as well as subsequent explorations of the 1964 and 1968 campaigns. Other programs were “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and the Oscar-nominated “Four Days in November.” “He just finished a documentary about inner city school children in Los Angeles learning to read and recite Shakespeare. He was working literally up until the end,” Madeline Stuart (daughter) said.
Andy Griffith dies at 86
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Andy Griffith, famous for his starring role in “The Andy Griffith Show,” died about 7 a.m. at his coastal home, Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie said in a statement.
He was an actor, director, producer and Grammy-winning Southern gospel singer and writer. He died Tuesday, July 3, at 86. He was very famous for “The Andy Griffith Show,” which aired from 1960 to 1968.
