Obituaries

World News

British actress Glynis Johns, who played Mrs. Banks in 'Mary Poppins,' is dead at 100

4:57pm January 05, 2024

by Bob Mondello

British actress Glynis Johns has died at the age of 100. Best known as the suffragist mom in Mary Poppins, she brought wit and charm to stage and film characters for more than six decades.

National

David Soul, star of 'Starsky and Hutch', has died at 80

4:05pm January 05, 2024

David Soul, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the cop show Starsky and Hutch, has died at 80.

Arts

Remembering Tom Smothers, TV pioneer and satirist

2:55pm January 05, 2024

Tom Smothers, who died Dec. 26, was one half of the comedy duo The Smothers Brothers. We listen back to an interview with Tom and Dick Smothers from 1985, and an interview with just Tom in 1997.

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David Soul is photographed at an event in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo "Starsky and Hutch" in a popular 1970s television series, has died at age 80.

David Soul, of TV's 'Starsky and Hutch,' dies at 80

12:13pm January 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

Soul was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us."

Tap dancing star and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

4:13pm January 04, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.

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Remembering jazz pianist and 'Compared to What' singer Les McCann

6:09pm January 03, 2024

by Greg Bryant

The pianist Les McCann, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 88, was known for his song "Compared to What." But he had a long and celebrated expansive career that preceded — and followed — that hit.

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National

Elmore Nickelberry, Memphis sanitation striker who marched with MLK, has died

4:58pm January 03, 2024

by Debbie Elliott

A civil rights activist from Memphis has died. Elmore Nickelberry was a sanitation worker who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to call for higher pay and better working conditions.

British actor Alex Cox, Mexican actress Blanca Guerra and Ana Ofelia Murguía (center), Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein and Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola pose as part of the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Murguía died Sunday.

Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90

6:00pm January 02, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Murguía was a lauded actor with a decades-long career in film, television and theater. She's best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch in Coco.

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Les McCann performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1974.

Music & Culture

Les McCann, jazz pianist with a soulful holler, dies at 88

4:02pm January 02, 2024

by Nate Chinen

An impromptu jam of "Compared to What" gave McCann a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, died on Sunday. Johnson, pictured in 2019, is seen introducing state Sen. Royce West at a rally where West announced his bid to run for the U.S. Senate, in Dallas.

Politics & Government

Former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson dies at 88

10:09pm December 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

The trailblazing Democrat, a nurse from Texas who helped bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the Dallas area died on Sunday.