Comedy Actor Willy Switkes Dies at 83
Actor who has seen playing a comedy character in the movie ” Taxi Driver” and Tootsie was reportedly dies because of Colon Cancer. Willy Switkes Dies at the age of 83
According to the statement made by Niece of the Comedy Actor, The death of Willy Switkes happened on Thursday, March 7 2013 at of colon cancer on Thursday at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The Actor is reportedly died peacefully
The Hollywood career of Willy Switkes were often infamous, thanks to the break made by the movie ” Tootsie” the native of Washington, D.C., and a longtime New York City resident acting career was seen in the spotlight.
Willy Switkes also appeared in Broadway productions of “The Cherry Orchard” and “A Thousand Clowns” and was an understudy to Buster Keaton during a 1960 tour of “Once Upon a Mattress.” His other films include “The French Connection” and “Bananas.” before his life come to an end because of the Cancer in the Colon. He as at the age of 83 when Willy Switkes Dies
Here are the list of the Famous People who had died or currently have Colon Cancer
- Corazon Aquino, former president of the Philippines
- Milton Berle, American comedian, died March 27, 2002 at the age of 93
- Lillian Board, British athlete
- Dick Dale, surf guitarist whose cancer has recurred as of 2008
- Denis D’Amour, guitar player for the band Voivod
- Claude Debussy, French composer
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete
- Conrad Furey, Canadian painter
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Audrey Hepburn, actress, died January 20, 1993
- Pope John Paul II
- Carolyn Jones, actress, known for playing Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family”. Diagnosed with colon cancer in 1982, died one year later in 1983.
- Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress, died December 25, 2008
- Jack Lemmon, American actor, died of colon and bladder cancer on June 27, 2001, aged 76
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