Robert Walker Jr., 'Star Trek' Actor and Son of Hollywood Superstars, Dies at 79

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The Houston-born performer won three Grammys and was the star of telefilms based on 'The Gambler.'

Kenny Rogers, the superstar country singer and occasional actor who had hits with "Lucille," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" and knew when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em as The Gambler, died Friday night. He was 81.

A three-time Grammy winner, Rogers died of natural causes at his home in Sandy Springs, Georgia, representative Keith Hagan told the Associated Press.

Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, Rogers sold more than 120 million records worldwide, racking up 17 No. 1 Hot Country Songs on the Billboard charts and another 10 among the top 10. With his sweet, husky voice and easygoing demeanor, he was hugely popular.

"He wasn't one of the bad boys — he was no Johnny Cash, the Man in Black who sang of shooting a man in Reno 'just to watch him die,'" Virginia Parker wrote of Rogers in a 2007 profile for Atlanta Magazine. "He was no 'don't boss him, don't cross him' Red Headed Stranger like Willie Nelson, who sang he 'shot her so quick there was no time to warn her.' He didn't do hard time in the slammer like Merle Haggard. Rogers was the man who begged his woman not to leave, the sensitive guy who promised eternal fidelity, the loser out of aces. And he was catnip to the ladies."

Rogers broke through in 1967 as the frontman for The First Edition, an eclectic band that played a range from rock and R&B to folk and country. The group, which included Mickey Jones and Terry Williams, scored its first hit in 1968 with the psychedelic "Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In." The song attracted a new legion of fans when it was used in 1998's The Big Lebowski.

Rogers' appeal prompted the band's name change to Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Under its new moniker, it took the single "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" to the Billboard Top 10. The group generated 14 albums before disbanding in 1974.

It didn't take long for Rogers to find success after going solo. His eponymous second album topped the Country Album charts in 1977. For the next decade, he grew to be one of the most successful recording artists of all time. Eleven consecutive studio albums reached the top 10 on Billboard's country chart, including a string of five No. 1s. Every release also charted on the Billboard 200, its overall ranking of the most popular U.S. albums.

With hit singles such as 1978's "The Gambler" and "Love or Something Like It"; 1979's "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life" and "Coward of the County"; 1982's "Love Will Turn You Around"; and 1983's "We've Got Tonight," Rogers' voice was constantly filling the radio...

He also played the police chief in 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and mogul Louis B. Mayer in 'Gable and Lombard.'

Allen Garfield, the New Jersey character actor who specialized in playing nervous types while appearing in such films as The Conversation, The Candidate, The Stunt Man and Nashville, has died. He was 80.

His sister, Lois Goorwitz, confirmed his death in a brief conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.

Earlier, actress Ronee Blakley posted the news of Garfield's death on Facebook, saying that he had died Tuesday and that the cause was COVID-19. Garfield and Blakley played husband and wife in Robert Altman's Nashville 1975.

Garfield suffered a stroke as he was set to appear in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate 1999, then suffered another one in 2004 that led him to reside at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills. A spokeswoman for the MPTF facility did not know if Garfield was there at the time of his death.

Born Allen Goorwitz on Nov. 22, 1939, in Newark, he went by his real name in several films, including The Brink's Job 1978 and One From the Heart 1981, midway through his career.

Garfield boxed as an amateur, worked as a sportswriter and studied with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York. He appeared often onstage before making his film debut in Orgy Girls '69, followed by other big-screen appearances in 1971 in Woody Allen's Bananas and The Organization, starring Sidney Poitier.

Often playing jumpy types, he worked for Francis Ford Coppola in The Conversation 1974 and The Cotton Club 1984 and for Wim Wenders in A State of Things 1982 and Until the End of the World 1991.

He also portrayed Louis B. Mayer in Gable and Lombard 1976 and police chief Harold Lutz in Beverly Hills Cop II 1987, and his résumé also included roles in Teachers 1984, Desert Bloom 1986, Dick Tracy 1990, Destiny Turns on the Radio 1995 and The Majestic 2001.

"The reason I didChief Zabu is that Allen Garfield is from the Actors Studio, I'm from the Actors Studio, and we worked together there on stuff," actress Marianna Hill said in a 2016 interview with Shaun Chang for the Hill Place blog. "Allen Garfield happens to be a great actor. He's a really underrated actor. Allen was the hardest-working actor, but nobody realizes that about him because he seems to be a natural."

Source: Hollywood Reporter