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He was a villain in “Lethal Weapon 2,” C.S. Lewis on TV in “Shadowlands” and Falstaff onstage in “Henry IV” — and had a cameo...

With a bevy of corporate and institutional clients, he helped shape the visual language of the postwar American economy.

First as a correspondent and later as a professor, he pushed his industry to adopt more rigorous, quantitative methods.

As a professor at the Wharton School and a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field, she developed new ways of thinking about tough issues.

The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the...

The Tennessee whiskey, long snubbed by connoisseurs and collectors, is suddenly grabbing attention with a series of special releases.

A tough but pragmatic negotiator, he led his union through decades of tumult, then helped drive through the president’s infrastructure plans.

He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs.

In the wake of hurricanes and the BP oil spill, he revolutionized his industry by turning from wild catches to cage farming his precious bivalves.

As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.