Peter Finch, BEST ACTOR for Network (1977)

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On January 14, 1977, Peter Finch met his director, Sidney Lumet, at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss the film on the show “Good Morning, America.” Just hours before, he collapsed and died of a heart attack in the hotel’s lobby. This is just down the hill from his home at 1348 San Ysidro Drive Beverly Crest Benedict Canyon.

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Finch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Academy_Awards
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=who+accepted+Peter+Finch%27s+Best+Actor+award%3f&mid=646F75104DE08A119AF6646F75104DE08A119AF6&FORM=VIRE

Murders in the Peter Finch Beverly Crest neighborhood.
Thomas Ince, 1924
Paul Levy Bern 1932
George Reeves (Superman) 1959
Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski, Tom Kummer, Steven Parent, 1969
Susan Berman, 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Berman
Tony Scott, 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott
Iyana Hutton, 33, of Chicago; Nenah Davis, 29, of Bolingbrook, Illinois, and Destiny Sims, 26, Phoenix-Buckeye AZ, January 30, 2023.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/three-victims-of-beverly-crest-la-mass-shooting-identified/

1976 film NETWORK:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Dunaway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Straight

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