Actor Gazzara dead at 81

Actor Ben Gazzara has died at the age of 81

The star of the Broadway version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and TV drama Run for Your Life died on Friday in New York.

He had been suffering from cancer.

Gazzara made his name in the 1959 courtoom drama Anatomy of Murder.

He played a US Army officer on trial for murdering a man accused of raping his wife.

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