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Virginia Leith, ‘The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’ Star, Dies at
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Virginia Leith, the star of Stanley Kubrick’s first film “Fear and Desire,” has died on the age of 94.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Leith died at her dwelling in Palm Springs, California on Nov. Four after a quick sickness.
Kubrick’s 1953 movie served as Leith’s performing debut, although the director famously disavowed the work, at one level referring to it as a “bumbling amateur film exercise.” Leith, whose character within the warfare movie is unnamed, appeared as a younger lady killed by a soldier.
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After her position in “Fear and Desire,” Leith signed as a contract participant with 20th Century Fox, happening to look in “On the Threshold of Space,” “Violent Saturday,” “A Kiss Before Dying” and “Toward the Unknown.”
She performed the lead position in Joseph Green’s “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” because the spouse of a mad scientist who devises a way to maintain her severed head alive after what ought to have been a deadly automobile accident.
Her TV credit embody one-off components on “The Millionaire,” “Great Ghost Tales,” “Baretta” and “Starsky and Hutch.”
22 Most Shocking TV Character Deaths of 2018, From ‘The Affair’ to ‘Westworld’ (Photos)
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If there was one factor 2018 taught us, it is that “shocking” is a really relative time period — and we’re not even speaking about real-life situations right here. Yes, it is fairly exhausting to blow anybody’s thoughts lately, together with that of TV viewers, making actually gasp-worthy small-screen character deaths few and much between. But that did not cease a number of showrunners from doing their worst — er, greatest, to completely kill you with these on-screen passings. Obviously, spoilers forward.
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Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) — “This Is Us”: We’ve recognized the Pearson household patriarch was going out lengthy earlier than the second season acquired round to exhibiting how he died. The wham episode (which aired after the Super Bowl) packed a punch due to the twist that sees Jack of cardiac arrest on account of smoke inhalation after a home hearth the whole household manages to make it out of alive.
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Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) — “Fear the Walking Dead”: Madison’s loss of life was certainly one of a number of bombs the “Walking Dead” franchise dropped on followers this yr. Dickens’ exit left followers in a zombie-like haze that they had barely recovered from by the point Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes mentioned farewell to the primary collection.
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Many, many residents of Westworld — “Westworld”: Several characters on Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi collection died on the Season 2 finale, together with Bernard, Charlotte Hale, Elsie, Robert Ford, Dolores and Maeve — to call of some of the numerous. The shocker right here is the group is split into those that stayed useless, did not keep useless, and should or might not nonetheless be useless.
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Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) — “Star Trek: Discovery”: Dr. Culber’s loss of life marked the passing of one other small-screen LGBT characters loss of life, made much more…