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With its abundance of positive reviews and heaps of industry accolades, “Succession” can unequivocally be counted as one of the most highly revered series in TV history. Judging by the impression its final batch of episodes have made on viewers so far, it seems like it will be the show to beat at the upcoming Emmys. After winning Best Drama Series in 2020 and 2022, the HBO hit could now take the prize for its farewell installment, emulating just seven other programs.

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Sharon Acker, who racked up dozens of TV appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at 87 years old. The actor died in her hometown of Toronto on March 16, nearly three decades after retiring from her acting career, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Acker got her start in the mid-1950s, appearing, for example, in a 1956 CBC production of Anne of Green Gables. That same year, she joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival company and teamed up with future Star Trek star William Shatner for a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. In another Shakespeare adaptation, she costarred with Sean Connery in a 1961 CBC production of Macbeth. She made her mark in American cinema in 1967 with a role as Lee Marvin’s onscreen wife in the cult crime flick Point Blank. In 1970, she and Hal Holbrook graced the cover of TV Guide Magazine in promotion of their NBCpolitical drama The Bold Ones: The Senator.

Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87.

Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”

She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)

In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...

Kurt Sutter's "Sons of Anarchy" will feature actor Hal Holbrook in the upcoming season three. FX announced today that the five-Time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award Nominee will appear in a four-episode arc. The show begins production this Friday, set to return in September 2010. Mr. Holbrook will play Nate Madock, the father of Gemma Morrow Teller (Katey Sagal), with whom he reconnects through coincidental circumstances. When season two wrapped, Gemma was on the run after being framed for murder by Agent Stahl (Ally Walker). A lion of stage, film and smallscreen, Holbrook�s illustrious career spans more than five decades, with Emmy Award-winning performances in the drama series The Bold Ones: The Senator and Peublo,...