A couple of entertainment obits to note:
Actor and author Demond Wilson, best remembered for being Lamont Sanford in the 1970s hit sitcom Sanford and Son, died at the age of 79. He died from cancer complications according to his son. Wilson secured the Sanford role following an appearance on the hit series All in the Family. Following some years of battling substance abuse, he became an ordained minister.
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Grady Demond Wilson was born on Oct. 13, 1946, in Valdosta, Georgia. He grew up in Harlem, appeared on Broadway at age 4 with William Marshall and Ossie Davis in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Green Pastures and danced at the Apollo Theater at 12.
He studied acting at the American Community Theater and at Hunter College but was drafted and then wounded in Vietnam while serving in the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. When his 13-month tour ended in 1968, he appeared in several off-Broadway plays.
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Actress Catherine O'Hara, 71, has died after a brief illness.
She was known for films like the Home Alone films and something called Schitts Creek.
O’Hara was born in Toronto in 1954. She was the second youngest of seven children; her father worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and her mother was a real estate agent. Her first acting gig was portraying the Virgin Mary in a Nativity play. After graduating from high school, she got a job as a waitress at the Second City Theater in Toronto.
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