I just heard Tony Franciosa died.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1528304

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Jan 20, 2006 — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated actor Anthony "Tony" Franciosa, part of a generation of intense Italian-American performers who took Hollywood by storm in the 1950s, has died at age 77 after suffering a stroke, a family spokesman said on Friday.

Franciosa, who won a Golden Globe award for his performance in "Career," a movie about an actor who gives up everything for success, died on Thursday at the University of California at Los Angeles medical center with his wife of 38 years, Rita, at his bedside, the spokesman said.

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[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. ........

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Wasn't he married to Shelley Winters at one time?

Or am I getting confused with another actor? :shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. Yes. She died a few days ago.

[henslee]

3. And he played superstud Matt Helm! I thought he was a cool dude.

[Kat45]

5. I always liked him.

RIP Tony.

Edited to add: I just read the article; I didn't know he marched with Martin Luther King and was a friend of Jesse Jackson. That's cool.

[Floogeldy]

6. Actually, you "read" it.

You didn't hear it.

[Hissyspit]

7. I always got him missed up with James Franciscus.

One of them got in trouble for stalking an ex-wife recently, I believe, but I can't remember which.

[hickman1937]

8. Is he the one that stalked Sinatra's daughter?

Supposedly?