Obituaries

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for ‘New Jack City,’ ‘Sugar Hill’ and ‘Above the Rim,’ has died at age 66. ‘Will never be another,’ his son says.

Lynn Bann, a celebrity jewelry designer who starred in Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire: New York,’ died Monday. ‘I love you more than life itself,’ her son said.

Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday.

Francisco San Martin, an actor who appeared in ‘Days of Our Lives,’ ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ died last week, medical examiner says.

Hudson’s keyboard was an essential element of the Band’s sound on roots-rock classics such as ‘The Weight’ and ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.’

Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.

Jeff Torborg, the Dodgers catcher who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965 and was a manager of the year with the Chicago White Sox, dies at 83.

Joan Plowright, the celebrated English actor whose career included the films ‘Enchanted April,’ ‘The Entertainer’ and ‘Spiderwick Chronicles,’ has died at 95.