TV, film, stage actor with 100 credits
NEW YORK - James Rebhorn, the prolific character actor whose credits included Homeland, Scent of a Woman and My Cousin Vinny, has died. He was 65.
Rebhorn’s agent, Dianne Busch, said Sunday that the actor died Friday at his home in South Orange, N.J., after a long battle with skin cancer.
Busch said Rebhorn was diagnosed with melanoma in 1992.
In five decades of television and film work, Rebhorn amassed more than 100 credits, including roles as a shipping magnate in The Talented Mr. Ripley and the prosecutor in the series finale of Seinfeld.
The lanky but piercing Rebhorn, raised a Lutheran in Indiana, often played astringent authorities, such as the headmaster in Scent of a Woman or the secretary of defense in Independence Day.
On Homeland, he played the father of Claire Danes’ CIA officer, Carrie Mathison. He also had a recurring role on the USA Network series White Collar.
Rebhorn frequently worked in theater, starring on Broadway in revivals of Our Town and 12 Angry Men and the original 1985 production of I’m Not Rappaport.
First Spanish prime minister after Franco
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MADRID - Adolfo Suarez, Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister after decades of authoritarian rule under Gen. Francisco Franco, died at age 81.
Suarez died Sunday afternoon in Madrid’s Cemtro Clinic hospital, family spokesman Fermin Urbiola said. The cause of death was “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease made worse within the context of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Isabel de la Azuela.
Suarez was 43 when he was chosen in 1976 by King Juan Carlos to lead the country toward a democratic parliamentary monarchy after Franco’s death a year earlier.
Despite opposition from many centrist and leftist politicians, Suarez and his Democratic Center Union party won the first post-Franco elections the next year.
Under Suarez’s leadership, the new parliament approved a democratic constitution in 1978.
He also legalized political parties and trade unions and called for amnesty for political offenses, steps that were seen as decisive after Franco’s 1939-1975 rule.
Suarez was considered a skilled and determined crisis manager during the transition to democracy, but he became increasingly reclusive, losing the support of his party and resigning as leader in 1981.
Suarez was awarded Spain’s highly regarded Prince of Asturias prize in 1996 for his contribution to democracy.
Carlos on Sunday expressed gratitude to Suarez for his “loyalty to the crown.”
“Suarez was a statesman who put the whole of the Spanish nation ahead of his personal and party interests,” the king said.
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