Actors who died with various diseases Part-III

Carmelo Bene - (March 16th, 2002)

Carmelo Bene, an actor and director who stirred up Italian theater with experimental techniques influenced by the European avant-garde, died at 64 after suffering from serious heart problems.

He appeared in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Oedipus Rex" in 1967. Bene's own film the following year, "Our Lady of the Turks," won a prize at the Venice Film Festival.



Danilo Bata Stojkovic - (March 16th, 2002)

Danilo Bata Stojkovic, a popular Yugoslav actor best known for his roles in plays and movies dealing with the country's troubled communist past, died after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.

He was known for his comic interpretation of narrow-minded state officials and working-class characters in a series of anti-communist plays by dissident authors in the 1980s. Stojkovic, who was also a prominent character actor, became hugely popular when he publicly backed pro-democracy forces that eventually toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic.



Rosetta Lenoire - (March 17th, 2002)

Rosetta LeNoire who was best known to TV audiences for her long-running role as Grandma Winslow on the television comedy "Family Matters" died Sunday in Teaneck, N.J., after a long illness. The nature of the illness was not disclosed. She was 90.

LeNoire made her Broadway debut in "The Hot Mikado" in 1939, going on to appear in such shows as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Sunshine Boys" and "Lost In The Stars." LeNoire also co-starred in the film version of "Anna Lucasta" with Sammy Davis Jr. and Eartha Kitt, and appeared in such TV series as "Search for Tomorrow," "The Guiding Light" and "Gimme a Break."



Dorothy DeLay - (March 24th, 2002)

Juilliard School violin teacher Dorothy DeLay whose students include Itzhak Perlman and Midori died from cancer at the age of 84.

DeLay began her teaching career at Juilliard in 1948, earning a reputation as the world's foremost violin teacher. Among DeLay's other musical progeny on the international concert circuit are the American violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, the Israeli-born Shlomo Mintz and the British-born Nigel Kennedy. In 1994, she received the National Medal of Arts, presented to her by President Clinton.