
Mead's rendition of the Lord's Prayer sold more than two million copies worldwide, reaching no. 26 in her native Adelaide, Australia, after suffering from cancer, the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide confirmed. Sister Janet Mead, a Catholic nun who became an unlikely pop star with a chart-topping rock version of the Lord's Prayer in 1974, died Jan. He's the reason I aspire to find projects that can make a difference too… My dad really made a difference in our world and that is something very special!" "He will always have a place in my heart and continue to motivate me day in and day out. In a statement, Chomsky's son, producer Peter Chomsky, remembered his father as an inspiration: "I am so proud of the work he did and hope he is remembered not only for his incredible contributions to our industry, but also for the stories he chose to tell about real events which helped to both entertain and inform his audience," Peter said. In film, his expansive credits include Attica, Evel Knievel, Brotherhood of the Rose, The Deliberate Stranger, Tank, and more.
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An eight-time nominee, Chomsky has won Emmys for his work on the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, 1982 TV film Inside the Third Reich, and 1986 miniseries Peter the Great.
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Chomsky, the prolific director and producer whose credits include the groundbreaking TV series Roots, Gunsmoke, and Star Trek, among others, died peacefully in his sleep on March 28. His last known television role was in 2007, when he guested on the police procedural Without A Trace. While the show itself was short-lived due to controversial protests about the couple's interfaith marriage, Birney went on to have a successful career on the small screen, earning acclaim for his role in the first season of the medical dramedy St. In 1972, he found fame in television as the husband of Meredith Baxter (who would go on to be his future real-life wife) in the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie. He went on to star in numerous stage productions, including The Playboy of the Western World and Amadeus on Broadway, as well as Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and A Moon for the Misbegotten in regional theater.
Birney's Broadway debut came in 1969 when he performed in Molière's The Miser.

David Birney, the television, film, and stage star best known for his role as Bernie Steinberg in the short-lived sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, died April 29 in Santa Monica after a five-year battle with Alzheimer's.
