What year did the man, who was impersonated by Roger Kitter in the Lego advertisement, die of a heart attack?
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Roger Kitter Roger Kitter (20 October 1949 – 3 January 2015) was an English actor best known for playing Captain Alberto Bertorelli in series 7 of the British sitcom TV series "'Allo 'Allo!". He had previously appeared weekly with Lulu throughout the 10-week run of her 1973 BBC1 series "It's Lulu". With Kaplan Kaye he also recorded a song "Chalk Dust – the Umpire Strikes Back" using the moniker 'The Brat'. Released on the Hansa label, it entered the UK Singles Chart on 10 July 1982; it reached a peak of number 19, and remained in the chart for 8 weeks. The song was a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa, and lampooned John McEnroe complaining about line calls in tennis ("The ball's in, everyone can see that the ball's in!"). He was also an impressionist, who provided the voice of Tommy Cooper in the Lego 'Kipper' advertisement.
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Tommy Cooper Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a British prop comedian and magician. Cooper was a member of the Magic Circle, and respected by traditional magicians. He was famed for his red tarboosh, and his appearance was large and lumbering, at 6 ft and more than 15 st in weight. On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed with a heart attack on live national television, and died soon afterwards.
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1958 in Denmark Mark Lavert invented Lego from his home in speke, Liverpool
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Rusty Magee Benjamin Rush "Rusty" Magee (August 6, 1955 – February 16, 2003) was an accomplished comedian, actor and composer/lyricist for theatre, television, film and commercials.
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Derrick Morris Derrick Morris (c.1930 – 30 July 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient.
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Merlin German Merlin German (November 15, 1985 – April 11, 2008) was a United States Marine sergeant stationed in Iraq who survived a roadside bomb blast in 2005. He became a symbol of recovery throughout the United States, soon known as the "Miracle Marine," during the 17 months he spent hospitalized following the blast. German eventually regained the ability to walk, and set up a charity for child burn victims. Just over three years after the blast, he died following a minor skin graft surgery.
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Micro Machines Micro Machines: The Original Scale Miniatures, also called Micro Machines or simply The Micros, are a line of toys originally made by Galoob (now part of Hasbro) in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1990s. Galoob licensed the idea behind Micro Machines from Clemens V. Hedeen, an American toy inventor from Wisconsin. Micro Machines were tiny scale component style "playsets" and vehicles that were slightly larger than N scale. Early Micro Machines television commercials were famous for featuring actor John Moschitta, Jr., who was (at the time) listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the world's fastest talker.
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Bob Holiday Bob Holiday (November 12, 1932 – January 27, 2017) was an American actor best known for playing Superman in the 1966 Broadway musical "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!" Historically, Holiday was the next "live-action" Superman after George Reeves. Holiday played Superman more than any other actor, having played the role in over 140 performances, as well as several live appearances in character. From 1999 until his death in 2017, he reigned as the eldest surviving, live-action Superman.
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Ron Gans Ronald Kenneth Gans (August 9, 1931 – June 29, 2010), sometimes credited as Ron Kennedy, was an American voice-over artist and character actor, known for portraying Q.T. the Orangutan on The Disney Channel's "Dumbo's Circus", the voice of Armus in "", the voice of Eeyore on "Welcome to Pooh Corner", and the voice of the Spider in "The Mother Goose Video Treasury". He also voiced the Stunticon Drag Strip in "The Transformers". Gans died in Los Angeles at the age of 78, due to complications from pneumonia.
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Billy Mays William Darrell "Billy" Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson most notable for promoting Fix-it, OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Zorbeez, and other cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products on the Home Shopping Network, and through his company, Mays Promotions, Inc.
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Kenny Baker (English actor) Kenneth George Baker (24 August 1934 – 13 August 2016) was an English actor and musician. He is best remembered for portraying the character R2-D2 in the "Star Wars" science fiction movie franchise.
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Roger Clark (actor) Roger Clark (16 March 1908 – 13 October 1978) was an American actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1941 to 1962.
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Jon-Erik Hexum Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American model and actor. He died as a result of an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head on the set of the CBS television series "Cover Up", in which he played the male lead.
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Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (] ; born 27 December 1947) is the former president and CEO of The Lego Group (1979–2004). According to "Forbes", Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the richest Dane with a net worth of $21.2 billion as of March 2017.
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Arnold Stang Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor and voice actor, whose comic persona was a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.
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Christopher Wray (actor) Christopher John David Wray (8 March 1940 - 12 September 2014) was an English actor and businessman.
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Jay Stewart Jay Stewart Fix (September 6, 1918 – September 17, 1989), known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. One of his longest-lasting roles was as the announcer on the game show "Let's Make a Deal", which he announced throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Other shows for which he announced regularly include the Reg Grundy productions "Scrabble" and "Sale of the Century", as well as the Jack Barry-Dan Enright productions "The Joker's Wild", "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "Bullseye". Stewart committed suicide in 1989.
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Watch Your Own Heart Attack Watch Your Own Heart Attack is a two-minute public information film advertisement produced by the British Heart Foundation, starring Steven Berkoff, which illustrates how it feels to have a heart attack. It was first shown on ITV1 on 10 August 2008.
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Peter Houghton Peter Houghton (20 August 1938 – 25 November 2007) was the longest surviving artificial heart transplant patient in the UK.
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Ken Hutcherson Kenneth Lee Hutcherson (July 14, 1952 – December 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was "The Hutch". Hutcherson died on December 18, 2013, after more than a decade-long battle with prostate and bone cancer. Ken Hutcherson is survived by his mother, wife, and four children.
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Levi Watkins Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an African American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. In 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient.
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Harold von Braunhut Harold Nathan Braunhut (March 31, 1926 – November 28, 2003), also known as Harold von Braunhut, was an American mail-order marketer and inventor, most famous as the creator and seller of both the Amazing Sea-Monkeys and the X-Ray Specs. His grandfather, Tobias Cohn, was head of the T.Cohn Toy Company until the early 1940s.