Dame Diana Rigg enjoyed a long and distinguished acting career on stage, in film and on television. The range of her roles was enormous, from serious drama to high camp. She was the only Bond girl to get 007 to the altar. But for those of a certain generation, she will always be the desirable Emma Peel in The Avengers TV series. Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born near Doncaster on 20 July 1938. While still a toddler, she travelled to India, where her father worked as a railway engineer for...

Chadwick Boseman, an actor who portrayed such monumental African American figures as Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, then became a superstar with the billion-dollar 2018 superhero blockbuster “Black Panther,” died Aug. 28 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 43. The cause was colon cancer, according to a statement on his official Twitter account. He had battled the disease for four years, as he rose to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. His illness...

Morning after morning, Regis Philbin would help America brace itself for another workday with a contagious blend of enthusiasm, barbed humor and laments about the mundane ups and downs of everyday life — a visit from his mother-in-law, another tough loss for his bad-luck New York Mets, the wallet he accidentally left in a rental car. As other morning television personalities came and went, Philbin reigned for decades as the comfortable and sometimes cantankerous guest in living rooms...

Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49. Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family," a representative for Discovery said in a statement...

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Preston, who played dramatic and comic foil to actors ranging from Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire” to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Twins,” died Sunday, husband John Travolta said. She was 57. Travolta said in an Instagram post that his wife of 28 years died after a two-year battle with breast cancer. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer,”...

Naya Rivera used the last of her strength to save her 4-year-old son before she died, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said Monday. "She mustered enough energy to get her son back onto the boat, but not enough to save herself," Ayub said.  A body discovered Monday morning at Lake Piru has been identified as the former "Glee" actress, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said during a news conference.  Rivera and her son rented a pontoon boat at Lake Piru...

Dame Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, was Britain's wartime Forces' Sweetheart, and remained one of the country's most potent symbols of resilience and hope. With songs such as We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover, she inspired both troops abroad and civilians at home during World War Two. As Britain's cities came under attack, her wistful songs, with their messages of yearning and optimism, were heard in millions of British homes. And 75 years...

Kenny sold 120 million records worldwide, as he transitioned from jazz to folk to rock to, finally, country. At the height of his career, his biggest hits crossed over to pop, which paved the way for many of country music’s most well-known artists today. At home, he was private and relaxed. He loved and was loved by his family, and was respected by his staff and his crew – his extended family on tour. Some of his favorite restaurants were the Waffle House and any...

The great Swedish film and stage actor Max von Sydow, who has died aged 90, will be remembered by different people for different roles: the title role in The Exorcist, Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his Oscar-nominated part as the slave-driven Lasse in Pelle the Conqueror, but his passport to cinema heaven will be his many remarkable performances under the direction of Ingmar Bergman. The tall, gaunt and imposing blond Von Sydow, pronounced Suedov, made his mark...

Kobe Bryant, who has died aged 41 in a helicopter crash, was a basketball phenomenon – a transcendent, if enigmatic, superstar whose rare talent bridged the gap between Michael Jordan and LeBron James in America’s National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the global sport basketball has become. Bryant had retired only three years before his death, after a 20-year career in the NBA, all of it with the league’s most glamorous team, the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he...