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Charles Dierkop, the actor who played Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, has died at the age of 87. The Hollywood veteran, who is also known for his role in The Sting and Police Woman, died on Sunday. His daughter Lynne tells The Hollywood Reporter that he died as a result of a heart attack and a bout of pneumonia. Charles died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, California, according to the paper. Born Charles Richard Dierkop in 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the actor appeared alongside Rod Steiger in 1964's The Pawnbroker and as a gangster in the 1967 mob film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Charles landed the part of outlaw George 'Flat Nose' Curry in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, alongside Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who appeared in the film's titular gunslingers. In 1961's The Hustler, he appeared alongside Newman, and again on the 1973 con artist masterpiece The Sting, in which Charles played bodyguard Floyd.

Here are 100 films that I believe every person should see at least once in their lifetime, and all of them should make you laugh, cry, gasp, or think. In some instances, perhaps all four are present. I hope my list would bring you some good cinematic treats, or better still, introduce you to them. Happy viewing!

It's been 50 years since the murder of a family in a Dutch Colonial home sparked subsequent reports of the Lutz family's experiences, which became known as the Amityville Horror. Ronald DeFeo Jr. (pictured right in 1974) fired and killed six members of his family on 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house on the south shore of Long Island, New York, on November 13, 1974. The cold-blooded killings shocked the nation, but the house acquired even more notoriety three years later, when its new owners were forced to leave, claiming they were terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there. The events spawned a slew of books and films that have made the home one of the country's most popular. The DeFoe family is shown inset.

H. Lee Sarokin died in La Jolla, California, where he and his wife Margie retired in retirement. Jeff Sarokin's son said pulmonary fibrosis was the cause of death. The judge gained notoriety in 1985 when he blocked the convictions of boxer Carter and John Artis, two black men who were wrongly sentenced to prison for murdering three white men. Sarokin also ruled that a homeless man could not be barred from a New Jersey library due to his odor.