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In this Dec. 11, 1951, photo, Dick Kazmaier of Princeton University shows off his Heisman Trophy. Kazmaier has died at 82.  (John Rooney / Associated Press)

Allan Arbus, in 2000, at the Laguna Playhouse, where he was playing the lead role in Arthur Miller’s “The Price.”   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Malik Bendjelloul, director of “Waiting for Sugarman,” in 2013.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter holds up the writ of habeas corpus that freed him from prison, during a news conference held in Sacramento, Calif., in 2004. Carter, who spent almost 20 years in jail after twice being convicted of a triple murder he denied committing, has died at his home in Toronto at 76.  (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

For decades, Lo Hsing Han was considered one of the world’s biggest traffickers of heroin. Here, he attends the inauguration ceremony of Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2007.  (Khin Maung Win / Associated Press)

Jeanne Cooper won an Emmy in 2008 for best actress in a drama series. She played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.”  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)

Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works in 2007.   (Arno Balzarini / Associated Press)

Mike Gray is shown in 1998. He also wrote “Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out” and made several documentary films.  (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)

Edouard Molinaro in 2008 in Deauville, France. He directed crime thrillers before turning to comedy. “La Cage Aux Folles” brought him an Oscar nomination for best director.  (Nathalie Magniez / AFP/Getty Images)

Kate O’Mara (1939-2014) -- British actress best known as Joan Collins’ TV sister in the 1980s prime-time soap “Dynasty.”   (Gary Stone / Getty Images)

Ted Post in 1996.   (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Alain Resnais in 2012 at a news conference for his film “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.” Resnais has been praised by French President Francois Hollande as one of the nation’s greatest filmmakers.  (Joel Ryan / Associated Press)

Run Run Shaw with his daughter and his wife in London in 1978, when he was knighted.  (Central Press/Getty Images)

Tom Sherak took on the position of Los Angeles’ film czar even as he was being treated for prostate cancer.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

This Oct. 22, 2009, photo shows Hans Riegel, the longtime marketing executive of German candy maker Haribo who took the gummi bear to international fame, in Bonn, Germany. Haribo said in a statement that Riegel, the son of the company’s founder, died of heart failure in Bonn on Tuesday. He was 90.   (Rolf Vennenbernd / Associated Press)

Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) -- The Tony Award-winning actress also portrayed Alec Baldwin’s mother in the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Wu Tianming, film director and head of Xi’an studios, China’s most progressive film production units, in Century City in 1999.   (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Susan Tyrrell, photographed in 1991, “always played these sort of battered, sensual, sexy, vulnerable women; sort of a beat-up Marilyn Monroe,” her “Fat City” co-star Stacy Keach said.  (George Wilhelm / Los Angeles Times)

German-Jewish writer Stefanie Zweig, best known for her autobiographical novel “Nowhere in Africa,” has died at 81.  (Uwe Zucchi / Associated Press)