Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama "The Green Mile," died Monday. He was 54.
Duncan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to a statement from his publicist, Joy Fehily. He had suffered a heart attack in July and did not recover.
A former ditch digger for a natural gas company in his native Chicago, Duncan began his Hollywood saga as a celebrity bodyguard in the mid-1990s. He received his first big acting break playing a member of the drilling team sent into space to blow up an asteroid heading to Earth in the big-budget 1998 movie "Armageddon," starring Bruce Willis. ...
Duncan later appeared in films such as "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "The Scorpion King" (2002) and "The Island" (2005). He also did voice work in films and television, including "Brother Bear" (2003) and "Kung Fu Panda" (2008). ...
Besides his mother, Jean, and his sister, Judith, he is survived by his fiancee, actress Omarosa Manigault.
More (w/photos):
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-michael-clarke-duncan-20120904,0,1567203.story
Blog, a searchable database of obituaries
back to 2001:
http://DeadCelebrityAlert.com
- - -
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section
107, any copyrighted work in this message is
distributed under fair use without profit or
payment to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included
information for non-profit research and
educational purposes only.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
