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Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Perry's parents were the steelworker Coy Luther Perry Jr. (1944-1980) and his wife Ann. Perry's parents divorced in 1972, when he was 6-years-old. Ann gained custody over her children, and later married construction worker Steve Bennett. Luke was mostly raised by his mother and stepfather, and did not have a close relationship with his biological father. Coy Perry suffered a heart attack in 1980 and died, when Luke was 14-years-old. Luke attended his funeral.
Perry was mostly raised in the village of Fredericktown, Ohio, and attended the Fredericktown High School. In his high school years, Perry served in the role of the school mascot, the "Freddie Bird".
In 1984, the 18-year-old Perry moved to Los Angeles, with the intention of becoming a professional actor. For several years, Perry kept auditioning for various roles without ever being hired. He supported himself financially by working at odd jobs, and serving as an extra for music videos. His most notable role in this period was in the 1986 music video for the song "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" (1985) by the heavy metal band "Twisted Sister".
Perry's first successful audition landed him the role of a recurring character in the soap opera Loving (1983) (1983-1995). From 1987 to 1988, he played the character of Ned Bates. In Perry's own words: "Ned was a dirt-poor mechanic from Tennessee who always got taken advantage of".
Perry next received a recurring role in another soap opera, Another World (1964) (1964-1999). From 1988 to 1989, he played the character of Kenny, the manager of aspiring model and actress Josie Watt (played by Alexandra Wilson).
In 1990, Perry landed the most significant role of his career, depicting the character of Dylan McKay in the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) (1990-2000). He played the character for a total of 199 episodes. Dylan was the teenage rebel son of business tycoon Jack McKay and hippie ex-wife Iris McKay. He started the series as a loner, but he offered help to nerdy schoolmate Scott Scanlon (played by Douglas Emerson) against the local bullies. This act of bravery gained him new friends and the romantic attention of Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty).
Perry's success in his new role gained him a huge following among teenage girls, and guaranteed that he would receive more job offers. His first starring role in a film was the drama Terminal Bliss (1990) (1992), where he played the self-destructive rich kid John Hunter. The film was a box-office flop.
Perry had a more memorable role in the horror comedy film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), as the character Oliver Pike. Pike was a hard-drinking slacker youth in Los Angeles, and had a hostile relationship with high school girl Buffy Summers (played by Kristy Swanson). After Pike's best friend gets turned into a vampire, Pike assists Buffy in her battles with the vampire lord Lothos (played by Rutger Hauer) and his subordinate vampires. Pike is Buffy's sidekick and main love interest in the film, and has appeared in various adaptations, though not in the spin-off television series.
Perry had his first voice acting role in the episode, Krusty Gets Kancelled (1993) of the animated sitcom The Simpsons (1989). He played a parody version of himself as a sidekick of the character Krusty the Clown in a show-within-the-show. Perry had more voice acting roles in other animated television series of this era. He played the Detroit-based crime lord Napoleon Brie in Biker Mice from Mars (1993) (1993-1996), the master ninja Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (1995) (1996), Bruce Banner's best friend and sidekick Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996) (1996-1997), and Nicky Little's boyfriend Stewart Waldinger in Pepper Ann (1997) (1997-2000).
In live-action films, Perry played the starring role of professional bull-rider Lane Frost (1963-1989) in the biographical drama 8 Seconds (1994). He played a version of himself in the Italian comedy film Vacanze di Natale '95 (1995) ("Christmas Vacation '95", 1995), where he is the love interest of infatuated teenager Marta Colombo (played by Cristiana Capotondi). Perry played the police officer and bank robber Chris Anderson in the crime drama Normal Life (1996), while his wife and partner-in-crime Pam Anderson was played by Ashley Judd. He played the suicidal character Johnny in the comedy-drama American Strays (1996), which features the character hiring a professional hit-man to provide him with an assisted suicide.
In 1997, Perry played a small role in the science fiction film The Fifth Element (1997). In a scene set in 1914, Perry plays the assistant archaeologist Billy Masterson. Masterson sees his mentor being knocked out by Mondoshawan aliens, and reacts by shooting one of the aliens. Masterson's fate is left uncertain in the film, though the novelization features him as the victim of a poisoning plot.
In the late 1990s, Perry appeared frequently in television films and various direct-to-video films. He had guest roles in several television series, but mostly playing one-shot characters. Following the end of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) in 2000, his first major role was the recurring character Jeremiah Cloutier in the crime-drama Oz (1997) (1997-2003). Introduced in 2001 episodes of the series, Jeremiah was an Evangelical preacher who was imprisoned for embezzling funds from his church. He used his charisma and preaching skills to convert fellow prisoners to Evangelical Christianity, He was eventually assassinated by his own convert Timmy Kirk (Sean Dugan) and several of Kirk's friends, after Jeremiah denounced Kirk using Christianity as an excuse to murder people.
Perry next gained a starring role in the post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah (2002) (2002-2004). The series is set c. 2021, 15 years after a plague killed nearly everyone over the age of thirteen. Most of the adult characters of the show were children at that time, and survived the event. Now they are troubled adults, trying to survive in a harsh world. Perry's character Jeremiah is a wanderer who finds himself recruited into a Colorado-based secretive organization. He fights a war against a West Virginia-based organization which seeks to either conquer or wipe out all remaining outposts of humanity. The series lasted two seasons. A third season was planned, but plans for it were aborted due to disagreements between the production companies co-financing the series.
Perry returned to playing mostly guest star roles in television. In 2006, he was cast as one of the main characters in the short-lived drama series Windfall (2006). Only 13 episodes were produced, as the series failed to find an audience and one of the show's co-creators had left before the season's completion.
In 2007, Perry played businessman Linc Stark in the surf-themed series John from Cincinnati (2007). Despite relatively high ratings, the series only lasted for one season.
In the late 2000s, Perry played guest roles in police procedural a series: the rapist Noah Sibert in Trials (2008) and the cult leader Benjamin Cyrus in Minimal Loss (2008).
For much of the 2010s, Perry continued mostly appearing in guest roles and relatively obscure films. In 2015, a colonoscopy test revealed pre-cancerous growths in Perry's body, that could have developed into colorectal cancer. Perry received medical treatment, and became a spokesperson for campaigns requiring early testing for cancer.
In 2017, Perry returned to prominence in a live-action adaptation of a comic book series, Riverdale (2017) (2017-2019). It was an adaptation of Archie Comics' characters, but in a mystery series instead of their traditional comedy setting. Perry played Frederick "Fred" Andrews, Archie Andrews's father, depicted here as the owner of a successful construction company. Fred is depicted as a single father, as his wife Mary Andrews abandoned him and moved to Chicago. The series also depicts Fred as the ex-boyfriend of Hermione Gomez-Lodge (Veronica Lodge's mother).
On February 27, 2019, Perry suffered a massive ischemic stroke within his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. He was hospitalized, but suffered a second stroke days later. He died on March 4, 2019, having never recovered from the two strokes. He was only 52 years old. His body was buried near his home in Vanleer, Tennessee, where he had bought a farm and the associated house in 1995, and spent time living there when not working on film or television projects.
Perry's will reportedly left his son Jack Perry (b. 1997) and daughter Sophie Perry (b. 2000) as the only heirs to his estate. The press noted that the will excludes Perry's mother, his stepfather, his siblings, his ex-wife, and his last fiancée from having inheritance claims, and there was some speculation on Perry's motivation for this decision. His net worth was estimated at over $10 million.- Michael Thomas was born on 11 April 1952 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Boat That Rocked (2009), Head Over Heels (1993) and Inside Out (1985). He was married to Selina Cadell. He died on 4 March 2019 in England, UK.
- King Kong Bundy was riding a win streak of 300 consecutive victories when he challenged Terry "Hulk" Hogan to the World Wrestling Federation World's Heavyweight Championship. Budy's streak was snapped when Hogan defeated him in a wild brawl.
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Keith Flint was born on 17 September 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for F9: The Fast Saga (2021), The Condemned (2007) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). He was married to Mayumi Kai. He died on 4 March 2019 in Brook Hill, North End, Dunmow, Essex, England, UK.- Actor
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For four decades and a half (from 1945 to 1991), this very active actor worked continuously in all the departments of his art, theater (including stage direction), cinema, TV and dubbing. Among all these activities Christian Alers always privileged the stage, appearing in countless plays, most of which light comedies. He particularly shone in plays by Alexandre Breffort ("Impasse de la fidélité"), Michel André ("Virginie", "Deux imbéciles heureux") or Marc Camoletti ("Boeing-boeing", "La bonne adresse"). In a more poetic register, he was also excellent in André Roussin's "Un amour qui ne finit pas". Which does not mean that Alers, even if he did it only occasionally, shied away from hardcore dramas. He proved he could be convincing in "serious" works such as "Comme avant mieux qu'avant" by Luigi Pirandello or "Les étendards du roi" and "Le cinquième cavalier", both by Bolivian playwright Adolfo Costa du Rels. His most impressive performance remains Joseph Staline in Vladimir Volkoff's "Yalta ou le partage du monde" Like many other stage actors, Christian Alers, made films in parallel with his theatrical career, but, as was the case for a lot of them, this second career proved globally disappointing. Sure Alers made movies as of 1945 (he was 23 then and as skinny as a rake) but his first roles were as thin as his post-war years figure. Things seemed to change in 1950 when he was given the opportunity to top the bill in André Cerf's adaptation of the famous Belgian play Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (1950). His interpretation of Suzanne Beulemens' French crush was fine but, for some mysterious reason, it was an experience with no tomorrow. Indeed, from then on the actor would get only small or tiny parts, sometimes in major films (Philippe in Éric Rohmer's Sign of the Lion (1962); the stranger in 'Michel Deville''s Adorable Liar (1962); young Isabelle Huppert's father in Bertrand Blier's Going Places (1974)...) but never with sufficient screen time to be able to prove himself. There were two exceptions to this rule which could have changed things, two leading roles in French-style noir movies (Force 8 (1974) and La cassure (1981)). Unfortunately, both films flopped and that was that with a prestigious film career. But Christian Alers never lacked work on the boards. Moreover, television enabled him to acquire a wide popularity thanks to series like _"Les saintes chéries" (1965-1970)_ or _Marie Pervenche (1984-1991)_. On the other hand, he was particularly colorful as the plump, gray-haired (this was not 1945 any more!) father-figure sidekick to the heroine in two sentimental historical series by Marion Sarraut, Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon (1983) and Catherine, il suffit d'un amour (1986) Christian Alers was therefore a happy and fulfilled actor when he retired in the 1990s. This faithful companion of the performing arts for 45 years could then take his bow with with the consciousness of work well done as well as the recognition from the spectators.- Actor
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Orto Ignatiussen was born on 19 February 1959 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for Gravity (2013), Eight Below (2006) and Aningaaq (2013). He died on 4 March 2019 in Tasiilaq, Greenland, Denmark.- Juan Corona was born on 7 February 1934 in Autlán, Jalisco, Mexico. He was married to Gloria I. Moreno. He died on 4 March 2019 in Corcoran, California, USA.
- Alice Gold was an actress, known for Sex and the City (1998), Lipstick Jungle (2008) and The Other Two (2019). She died on 4 March 2019.
- Ted Lindsay was born on 29 July 1925 in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for 1956 Stanley Cup Finals (1956), NHL on CBS (1957) and Names on the Cup (2017). He was married to Joanne. He died on 4 March 2019 in Oakland, Michigan, USA.
- Torsten Eikmeier was born in 1971 in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Mannheim - Der Film (2016) and Pälzisch im Abgang (2015). He died on 4 March 2019 in Germany.
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Andrew Mismash was born on 28 September 1968. Andrew is known for The Singles Ward (2002). Andrew died on 4 March 2019.- Writer
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Maya Turovskaya was born on 27 October 1924 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was a writer, known for Pyotr Martynovich i gody bolshoy zhizni (1976), Triumph Over Violence (1965) and Busch singt - Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (1982). She died on 4 March 2019 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Jean Starobinski was born on 17 November 1920 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland. He was married to Jacqueline Sirman. He died on 4 March 2019 in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland.
- Robert DeProspero was born on 31 December 1938 in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Patricia Townsend. He died on 4 March 2019 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Don Nice was born on 26 June 1932 in Visalia, California, USA. He was married to Sandra Nice. He died on 4 March 2019 in Cortlandt, New York, USA.
- Esther Hockin was born on 18 January 1922 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She was an actress, known for Love & Murder (1990), Friday the 13th: The Series (1987) and Avonlea (1990). She died on 4 March 2019 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
- Johnny Romano was born on 23 August 1934 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He died on 4 March 2019 in the USA.
- Ana Gjini was born on 3 April 1942 in Shkoder, Albania. She was an actress, known for Çeta e vogël (1979) and Gjaku i Arbërit (1985). She died on 4 March 2019 in Parma, Italy.
- Rick Walters was born on 5 September 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Robin. He died on 4 March 2019 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Sam Hough was born on 2 January 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 4 March 2019 in Rhode Island, USA.
- Les Carlyon was born on 10 June 1942 in Elmore, Victoria, Australia. He was a writer, known for Gallipoli (2015) and Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (2003). He was married to Denise Stuart Patterson. He died on 4 March 2019 in Victoria, Australia.
- Klaus Kinkel was born on 17 December 1936 in Metzingen, Württemberg, Germany. He was married to Ursula. He died on 4 March 2019 in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Sidney Verba was born on 26 May 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Cynthia Winston. He died on 4 March 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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Anthony Ríos was born on 17 July 1950 in Sabana de la Mar, Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic. He was an actor and writer, known for Mañana no te olvides (2017), Vamos de Robo (2014) and Nueba Yol 3: Bajo la nueva ley (1997). He was married to Mabel D'León. He died on 4 March 2019 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.- Eddie Lambert was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Peggy Lambert. He died on 4 March 2019 in West Hills, California, USA.