De naam Michael Clarke Duncan zal je waarschijnlijk niet veel zeggen, maar als ik zeg de Afro Amerikaanse reus uit The Green Mile en Daredevil (waar hij de Kingpin speelde) dan zal er vast en zeker een belletje rinkelen. Deze grote acteur is gisteren op 54 jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van een hart aanval.

Sad news came almost out of nowhere on this Labor Day as NY Daily News reports that Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for his star-making turn in The Green Mile has passed away at only 54-years old. The actor had been hospitalized for the past couple months after suffering a heart attack in July, and today Clarke's fiancee Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth (of "The Apprentice") released a statement saying he passed away sometime this morning in Los Angeles while still undergoing treatment at the hospital. The hulking, deep-voice actor became a mainstay after stunning the industry (and holding his own against Tom Hanks) with his turn as man accused of child murder and rape, who has a mysterious and miraculous gift. Read on.

Though The Green Mile really launched Duncan's career, he already had sizable roles in Bulworth and Armageddon the year before (and a great bit part in A Night at the Roxbury). But his career flourished after the 1999 Best Picture nominee with large roles in films like The Whole Nine Yards, Planet of the Apes, The Scorpion King and Daredevil. Though he also continued to show his action chops in films like Sin City and The Island (reateaming him with director Michael Bay), he also took time out for family programming doing voices for cartoons like "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron" and "Teen Titans."