Academy Award-winner Richard Attenborough died today, according to the BBC. The British actor/director had been in a wheelchair after falling down stairs six years ago and had spent several years in a nursing home along with his wife. He was 90.

Though he’s had a successful career that’s spanned over 70 years, Attenborough is best remembered to recent generations for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, where he starred as John Hammond, the billionaire behind the dinosaur theme park on Isla Nublar. The actor, who reprised his role for the 1997 sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, speaks the famous line, “Welcome to Jurassic Park.” He also played Kris Kringle in the 1994 reboot of the Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street and starred in the 1963 war film The Great Escape.

Don Pardo, venerable voice over and television show announcer, who spanned a career over 70 years, mainly with NBC, and best remembered as the original announcer of Saturday Night Live, has died at the age of 96.

No other announcer had the kind of urgency and instantly recognizable lilt and lift in his vocal patterns quite like Don Pardo did. In many ways, with his snappy prose, clipped cadence, and swooping baritone, Pardo exemplified the stereotype of an announcer and the public’s perception of one, in the best possible way.

Gwar frontman Dave Brockie was a larger than life figure to his fans, as was his onstage alter ego Oderus Urungus. So when Brockie died of an accidental overdose of heroin on March 23, 2014, the band never dreamed of attempting to pass off someone else in the Oderus costume.

Brockie was laid to rest, eulogized, and mourned at private and public memorials back in the Spring, but the band waited for their annual GwarBQ celebration in their hometown of Richmond, VA, this past weekend to send the scum dog alien that was Oderus Urungus back to the mothership. Fans got to witness a touching tribute to Brockie and his alter ego by friends and fellow musicians, such as Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, followed by a flaming viking funeral send-off of the Oderus costume.

Watch the full video here below.

Robin Williams’ wife has revealed that the actor was sober, but battling the early stages of Parkinson’s disease at the time of his death.

In a statement released today, William’s wife, Susan Schneider, said that her husband, who was found dead on Monday of an apparent suicide, was not ready to share with the public his Parkinson’s diagnosis.

You can read Schneider’s full statement here below.

“When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.”

So true are the words of John Keating, the character from the movie Dead Poets Society portrayed by Robin Williams in an Oscar-nominated performance. The actor’s death, tragic in that a man who gave the world so much joy could never appear to possess joy himself, continues to startle Hollywood. There are few performers we could call “genius,” but Williams was one of them, an irrefutably gifted comic-turned-actor who was as much a poetic dramatic actor as he was a comedic revelation.